#lines

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#loss #moving-forward #solitude #the-yellow-house #life

We are strangers to our own lives, setting out in the dark to look for the adobe of Love which we were meant to know, guided by the Music that wants us to see. ↗

— David Paul Kirkpatrick

#love #spirituality #love

I'm not much but I'm all I have. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#optimism #responsibility #time #responsibility

After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego. ↗

— Garey Gordon

#faith #holiness #integrity #soul #faith

1,320 seconds walk into the room before he does. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#ya #ya

I was alone in that room. Of course, there were bodies all around, but they were all dead. They were dead when I got there. Well, most of them were dead. The last few I had to strangle so I could enjoy some solitude. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#bodies #body #death #enjoy #joy

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact. ↗

— Martha Beck

#innate #intact #loneliness #proof #search

The future is an opaque mirror. Anyone who tries to look into it sees nothing but the dim outlines of an old and worried face. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#dim #face #future #into #look

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ↗

— Ouida

#cruel #familiarity #kind #magician #ugliness

And I believe in having an administration that has clearly defined goals, objectives and time lines such that it and its people can be held accountable. ↗

— Erskine Bowles

#administration #believe #clearly #defined #goals