“I Let It Go. It’s Like Swimming Against The Current. It Exhausts You. After A While, Whoever You

“It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupére 

Trista Mateer, Honeybee

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Reliance

Who do I turn to when I find myself rolling in the deep, the trenches from where it's next to impossible to get out? Who can I rely upon, who will not forsake me when the chips are down? Aren't these and more, the questions we keep asking ourselves as we grow through the years? Sometimes these are tied with the people, be it our family or friends, and then again, more often than not, this becomes tied with the one we fall in love with. We tell ourselves that they will be there for us, no matter what, that we can rely upon them. While that may be true in many cases, it doesn't always work out that way. On top of that, we can't always rely on our own selves either, because we can't be our own critics when that is what might be needed at some point. So, we do need to find something or someone else, a higher entity, upon whom we can rely upon, without any judgements.

- DG

Kim Addonizio, from "'Round Midnight'", What Is This Thing Called Love

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka 

Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

—The Picture of Dorian Gray - O. Wilde

“She would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love […] in broken words, and seem intent on proving that she had a heart, by breaking it.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“If by romantic they mean someone who dreams, I am a romantic, but I shall keep my crown of dreams a secret.”

— Anais Nin, 1917