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“Healing is about what is best for you.”

— Ella Dawson, You Don't Need To Forgive People Who Hurt You

“For every second of every day, Unsplash serves 360 high-res images and 120 API and web requests. More photos are viewed every week than over the entire first year of Unsplash.”

— Luke Chesser, What does Unsplash cost?

“We're always wondering whether there might be life or intelligence on other planets, way up in the stars. But we never ask ourselves about the infinitely small. Maybe it could from there, from a universe that's even smaller than protons, electrons, and quarks.”

— Félix Guattari, A Love of UIQ

“Poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life. You ought to wait and gather sense and sweetness for a whole lifetime, and a long one if possible, and then, at the very end, you might perhaps be able to write ten good lines.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“And it is not yet enough to have memories. You must be able to forget them when they are many, and you must have the immense patience to wait until they return. For the memories themselves are not important. Only when they have changed into our very blood, into glance and gesture, and are nameless,…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“Everyone knows the impulse to imagine that we were meant to be the citizens of some other place. It is from this sensation that the angels come into existence, creating in this world their ambience of pure loss.”

— Stephen Mitchell, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“For this is wrong, if anything is wrong: not to enlarge the freedom of a love with all the inner freedom one can summon. We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

“The task of the modern artist is to find something he can be sincere and serious in; something he can mean. And he may not at all.”

— Stanley Cavell, Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays

“There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.”

— Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”

— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“I desire to make images because I desire to find and to be found by you despite the risk. The distance between you and I will never be subsumed but we can take steps and make glances towards each­ other, send smoke signals, like Gatsby reaching out towards that single green light, minute and far awa…”

— Jeremy Schlangen, Interview: A Romance

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It…”

— Martha Graham, The Life and Work of Martha Graham

“Next year we will sit on the porch and count migrating birds. Children on vacation will play catch between the house and the fields. Red grapes will ripen till the evening, and will be served chilled to the table. You will yet see, you will yet see, how good it will be next year. Next year we will s…”

— Ehud Manor, Bashana Haba'a

“People ask me from a gender perspective, he said this and this about women, and I’ve said, ‘Have you looked at the things he’s said about men? Why would our gender be treated differently?”

— Ivanka Trump, In Campaign and Company, Ivanka Trump Has a Central Role

“Autumnal blaze, Resplendent in the sunlight.”

— Nickolas Krause, Steadfast Magazine, Issue 2

“I think it is very important for people to run away...from home, from the mainstream, from their family, from the culture, from the society that produced them...because the moment I have to learn something new, like new habits, new languages, I myself have something like a rebirth. I reduce myself t…”

— Saul Steinberg, Saul Steinberg Talks (1967)

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.”

— Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass

“Gaze delightedly at a belt of liquid azure without knowing whether it belongs to the sea or sky.”

— Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove