#life

A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection, truly possessed. ↗

— Robert Wells

#pillar #poetry #travel #treasure #value

Since the experience is different for each individual, the tension will reflect that experience. In some persons the whole lower half of the body is relatively immobilized and held in a passive state; in others the muscular tensions are localized in the pelvic floor and around the genital apparatus. If the latter sort of tension is severe, it constitutes a functional castration; for, although the genitals operate normally, they are dissociated in feeling from the rest of the body. Any reduction of sexual feeling amounts to a psychological castration. Generally the person is unaware of these muscular tensions, but putting pressure upon the muscles in the attempt to release the tension is often experienced as very painful and frightening. ↗

— Alexander Lowen

#health #life #muscular #sex #sexuality

I take up my own pen again - the pen of all my old unforgettable efforts and sacred struggles. To myself - today - I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will. ↗

— Henry James

#ghost #horror #work #life

L'humanité ... est un puits à deux seaux. Pendant que l'un descend pour être rempli, l'autre monte pour être vidé. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#life

And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life

When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window. ↗

— Liz Fichera

#life

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you. ↗

— Donna Jo Napoli

#literary #saved #life

i write, because not breathing is not an option. ↗

— Monice Mitchell Simms

#writing #life

No one will care more about your life than you do and no one is better qualified to chart its course than you are. You are the expert. ↗