Anna Haifisch

Only by devoting oneself to darkness, absorbing its deep waters drop by drop, can one give rise to a noble, lasting work of art. / Pleasant is the air, and pleasant the light, but not everything can flower, and he who fails to surrender his soul to darkness will wither.

Dulce María Loynaz, tr. by James O’Connor, from Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems

"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disardered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

BILL WATTERSON ‘A cartoonist’s advice’

I've become comfortable

I've been satisfied by an unsatisfying routine for so long now

I've found people who can help hold me accountable, so that I van learn how to get out if the fake shelter of my comfort zone

Be afraid, be confused, be unsure, be hesitant if you must, but do it anyways, live life anyways.

If life is the same droning routine until you die it is simply not worth living.

Strive for an uncomfortable life, it will make you happy.

“You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.”

— Paul Coelho

““Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.” Maya Angelou”

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i call this one “nobody likes you when youre 23”