Excerpt from the poem “Thoughts I’m Saving For Later” by Schuyler Peck (@schuylerpeck), featured in her poetry collection To Hold Your Moss-Covered Heart
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Jorge Luis Borges
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I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.
Sylvia Plath
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When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Paulo Coelho
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I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Babylon Revisited”
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But most good writers are Don Quixote at heart, and unreasonableness is often a condition of art.
Ha Jin, The Writer as Migrant (via quotespile)
Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent Van Gogh
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You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.
Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
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