“Hope is really just desire disguised, just desperation, aching, dressed up like a prayer.”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon
“We pretended she'd only gotten lost in the colors of fall.
Piper”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon
“Sometimes things need to get broken”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon
“We lived among people whose poverty could be seen in the length of their faces, in their tired speech and in the heaviness of their eyes.”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon
“My mother taught me how to find grace in wreckage. She taught me not how to reassemble, but how to rearrange. The stained-glass pictures she made were certain evidence that things can be broken and put back together, and that the mended thing will be more beautiful than the original.”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon
“That's the way with sentimental things: it's the memory the junk conjures that's valuable, not the junk itself.”
― T. Greenwood, quote from Undressing the Moon
T. Greenwood
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“But that’s the trouble with moments—they end." ~Narrator”
― S.M. Boyce, quote from Lichgates
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Matthew Quick, quote from Love May Fail
“Never cease chiseling your own statue. —PLOTINUS (205–270) You”
― quote from Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life
“We’re going to discuss only four or five different problems the Earth has, though there are multiple different scenarios going on. If any one of these scenarios were to break down, all life on the planet would eventually die. And at the moment, they’re all about to break down — it’s just a matter of which one breaks down first. And whenever one system goes, then all the rest of them will go eventually, and that’s it, there won’t be any more human life. It will be over with, and we’ll end up just like Mars or the dinosaurs. A few years ago, around the turn of this century, there were thirty million species of life forms on Earth — thirty million different species of life. In 1993 there were about fifteen million. It took billions of years to create these life forms, and in less than a blink of an eye, a mere hundred years, half of the life on this dear Earth is dead. Around thirty species a minute are now becoming extinct somewhere. If you were to watch this planet from space, it would appear to be dying very, very rapidly. Yet we’re going on as though nothing’s happening and everything’s great. We’re sticking money in the bank and driving our cars and just wiggling right on. Yet from an honest point of view, we have a real life-and-death problem going on here on Earth, and few people seem to be really serious about it.”
― Drunvalo Melchizedek, quote from The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1
“Almost always, jealousy is rooted in some sort of fear: of abandonment, of being replaced, of losing the attention of someone you love, of being alone. Jealousy isn't really about the person you feel jealous of. It's about you: your feeling that you might lose something precious.”
― Franklin Veaux, quote from More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
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