#known

Pieces" Isn't that what all of life is anyway? Shards. Bits. Moments. Am I less because I have fewer, or do the few I have mean more? Am I just as full as anyone else? Enough? Pieces. Allys saying "I like you" Gabriel snorting out bread freeing me to laugh. And Ethan reminding me how much I do know. Pieces. I hold them likethey are life itself. They nearly are. ↗

— Mary E. Pearson

#life #pieces #unknown #life

Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. Instead of filling the unknown in our minds with expectations of the tragic, we can choose to fill the void with a different expectation – the expectation of adventure. For example, Seneca, the Greek philosopher, refused to be afraid of what he did not know. When asked if he was afraid of dying, he replied, “Absolutely not, why should I be afraid of something I know nothing about.” His orientation toward the unknown of death was not to fill the gap in his understanding with horror but potential. ↗

— David W. Jones

#death #disney-world #facing-fear #facing-problems #fear

I didn’t even have a name for her, shade or human, but I didn’t need one to know her. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #identity #love #lovers #naming

There is an awkward silence that overcomes you when cross paths with the person that kisses your heart the second that you meet them. It balances on the edge of unknown but always desired. ↗

— Carl Henegan

#kisses #love #unknown #love

I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late. ↗

— Richie Ashburn

#had #i #i wish #known #late

The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings. ↗

— Balthus

#best #best way #his #known #let us

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#had #i #known #latin #my soul

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil. ↗