“Attention is the beginning of devotion.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
— Simone Weil, from an April 13, 1942 letter to poet Joë Bousquet

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”

—

Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter. Read More on wordsnquotes

Writers with your Venus Sign.

• Aries Venus: “There is no greater glory than to die for love.” – Gabriel García Márquez , Love in the Time of Cholera.

• Taurus Venus: “To be together again, after so long,
who love the sunny wind, the windy sun, in the sun, in the wind, that is
perhaps something, perhaps something.”- Samuel Beckett, Watt.

• Gemini Venus: “In black ink my love may still shine bright.”- William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

• Cancer Venus: “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.”- Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women.

• Leo Venus: “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.”- Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace.

• Virgo Venus: “My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.”- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, La Gitanilla El Amante Liberal (Novelas Ejemplares, Obra Completa 6).

• Libra Venus: “The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays.

• Scorpio Venus: “The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!”- Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.

• Sagittarius Venus: “I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”- Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked by Himself: And Other Stories.

• Capricorn Venus: “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

• Aquarius Venus: “To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”- Anthony Burgess, Homage To Qwert Yuiop: Essays.

• Pisces Venus: “Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”-Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems.

I can say with great certainty and absolute honesty that I did not know what love was until I knew what love was not.

Anonymous

“You are not broken, in need of fixing. Rather, you are deeply hurt, in need of care.”

“The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining
Emotional Control and Becoming Whole” by Arielle Schwartz, Jim Knipe PhD

“Silence is the mark of hysteria. The great hysterics
have lost speech, they are aphonic, and at times they have lost more
than speech. They are pushed to the point of choking, nothing gets
through.”

— Hélène Cixous

“I am the shape you made me.
Filth teaches filth.”

— Sophokles, from Elektra, An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides (tr. Anne Carson).

“A single acre of soil can contain 2,400 pounds of fungi,
1,500 pounds of bacteria, 900 pounds of earthworms, 890 pounds of
arthropods and algae, and 133 pounds of protozoa. The soil teems with
life, as does the dead body (inside its sausage casing of keratin, or
dead skin). Microscopic sorcery takes place when a body is placed just a
few feet deep in the soil. Here, trillions of bacteria living inside
you will liquefy your innards. When the built-up pressure breaks the
seal of skin an orgiastic reunion takes place, in which our bodies merge
with the earth.
We owe our very lives to the soil, and, as William Bryant Logan said,
“the bodies we give it back are not payment enough.” Though, presumably,
they are a start.”

— From Here to Eternity, by Caitlin Doughty

Go easy on yourself. Whatever you do today, let it be enough.

Unknown

Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει

All is flux, and nothing abides.

— Heraclitus (c. 535-475 BC), quoted in Plato, Cratylus 402a, and Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Philosophers, IX.8 (c. 3rd century BC)