quotes – Page 17 – סלומה

I still remember you
as a little girl
who overwaters plants
because she doesn’t know
when to stop giving.

Real magic can never be made by offering up someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back. The true witches know that.

Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Ellen Glasgow

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes the wrong path can lead us to the right road.

Jay McLean, Where the Road Takes Me

…People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming.

Kathleen Winter, Annabel

I want to tell you
what I know
in case it is of use.

If you rip a hole in a net, there’s actually fewer holes in it then before.

Interviewer: Suppose your house were on fire and you could remove only one thing. What would you take?

Jean Cocteau: I would take the fire.

I love bell hooks for saying something I have known in the deepest depths of my heart: “Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.” I am bored of people who can’t think of love beyond sex.