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“When we push ourselves to pursue relentlessly external accomplishments, we often fail to align with the flow of life and forget to honor our need for reflection and inner retreat. . (“Finally unwindâ€�)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Words are also spoken in silence. The echo of feelings mixed with the vibration and frequency of thoughts in your mind are perceived telepathically by others, no matter the distance.”
― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

“She will simply cherish every moment she's allocated until there are no more.”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“Maybe that's just how it feels right now and she'll be able to look back on this time with some kind of detached fondness someday. That even this keen sense of missing him will be something she grows to appreciate.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“Each tick had been another memory clicking by, but now, all other faces were forgotten.”
― Scarlet Ibis James, Scarlet Yearnings: Stories of Love and Desire

“Why did she feel the need to make everyone like her? What a thing it must be to be indifferent to indifference.”
― Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

“Would you mind putting Mlinko on?"
"Mlinko seems to be dead," said Kline.
"Appears or is?"
"Both," said Kline.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“It makes no difference whether you believe in God, since God, so I have been led to understand, believes in you.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“Real time is slower than social media time, where everything feels urgent. Real time often includes periods of silence, reflection, growth, space, self-forgiveness, processing with loved ones, rest, and responsibility.

Real time transformation requires stating your needs and setting functional boundaries.

Transformative justice requires us at minimum to ask ourselves questions like these before we jump, teeth bared, for the jugular.

I think this is some of the hardest work. It's not about pack hunting an external enemy, it's about deep shifts in our own ways of being.

But if we want to create a world in which conflict and trauma aren't the center of our collective existence, we have to practice something new, ask different questions, access again our curiosity about each other as a species.”
― Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

“You are reflected through your relatability. How deeply you have shared yourself with others. How well the world has felt you, how profoundly they have heard you depend not on your conquest but on your understandability.”
― Jayita Bhattacharjee

“Some nights,
it's only the SKY that pays in full
With dark clouds, I am so very rich
The moon takes me by the hand
and I am careless, I know this...
Some nights
end with a little too much backtalk,
that's when the night
ends at all”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Doll Shaker

“We typically see ourselves as more benign than we are, and are quicker to attribute malign motives to potential adversaries”
― Graham Allison, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

“Don't miss out on good opportunities while you have them. Sometimes, the chance you pass up today is the one you'll regret tomorrow.”
― OfficialSteam

“I went back over our conversations in my memory, to see if I could translate them into some other meaning. But it was too late. They are what they are. They mean what they meant, and I know I misremember some of them anyway - and that pains me.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

“There was something magnetic about Manhattan in the summer, the way the sun reflected off every mirrored skyscraper window, bouncing off each other like some ancient mirrorball.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“The older you get, the less linear your memories, and the more everything seems to circle back to something else.”
― Liane Moriarty, Here One Moment

“Maybe if things had been different. Maybe if we'd met again later, or if we'd never known each other in the first place.”
― Yulin Kuang, How to End a Love Story

“The Wanderer

I wandered many miles
From shore to shore,
While keeping my word;

Some waves grew uneven,
And the sand in bays silvered
With each hour of hurt.”
― Laura Chouette

“New Year

Grey softens our paths
While holding the stones
Beneath our feet near;

So the streets we wander
Become ours and become lost
While seeking new roads.

Horizons bloom over lines,
Held dear and near, yet not far
Enough from how we want to live.

â€� Outgrow, New Year’s Eves.”
― Laura Chouette

“Life is never what you expect it to be. You want it to be happy and peaceful. You want to get a good job, find a good wife, have kids, raise them just right, die without debts. But sometimes, for some people, chaos takes over and spoils the great plan. It pushes you in a direction you never thought you’d travel before, keeps you away from the life you truly wanted. But for these very unlucky people, despite their adversity and turmoil, usually turn out to be the most interesting. I, myself, a mirror of the society I left behind, have been unlucky enough to become interesting.”
― Carlton Mellick III, The Menstruating Mall

“Isn't being underused in your 20s the greatest tragedy for the mind and the spirit?”
― Dina Nayeri (author)

“How can a people be individually intelligent, progressive, and enterprising, but collectively hidebound, stupid, and incapable to change its destiny as perennial victims?

This contradiction may be said to be the central concern of all Armenian dissidents from Movses Khorenatsi in the 5th century AD to Gostan Zarian in our own days.”
― Ara Baliozian, Definitions: A critical companion to Armenian history and culture

“The end." Only it wasn't. Funny thing about endings-until the suns burn down and all is cold, nothing is ended. The players only change.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Empire of Silence

“The new year is a good time to be forward-thinking about who you want to be; but it’s also a great time to look back at what you’re ready to let go of.”
― Esther Perel

“Sometimes, you lose somebody
to find that love
is meant to return home.

And now,
as I gather the ashes,
I know
I will live and love again,
but this time,
it will be me
who stands in the center
of that flame.
This time,
that love will be mine.”
― Catherine Anne Castillo, In the Darkness of Shards: Poems from a Broken Place

“In the end, I loved the world, so I remained in the world.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Dead Astronauts

“I knew that my eyes weren't reading, but I'd never let myself be convinced that I was pretending, and that I hadn't come in search of reading on an island, I was trying to ignore that God was giving me exactly what I'd ask for and that Iâ€� I was saying "no". I was pretending that I didn't notice that I'd constructed a whole hope for whatever was finally happening to me, but that there I was wearing glasses with the open book, as if I loved so much that I could only shout "no". But I also knew that if in that exact moment I didn't take up the calm thread of my previous life, then my balance would never return, and never would my things be recognized by me.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark

“With more and more technology in our lives and the fact that this technology primarily speaks a quantitative language, the need for reflection on measurement and quantification increases.”
― Berend van der Kolk, The Quantified Society

“Who among us, looking back down the path of no return, can say they followed it in the right way?”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“In life's kaleidoscope, we're each a different piece of the puzzle.”
― Sarah Reinvalde