tear

‘We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire’

- George Sand

substance

‘Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.’

- Jorge Luis Borges

want

‘I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.’

- Zelda Fitzgerald

glances

‘The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow’s past.’

- Mary Webb

watch

‘Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.’

- Anne Lamott

expect

‘The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.’

- Nelson Henderson

form

‘What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.’

- Kerry Thornley

make

‘Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.’

- Alice Walker

tell

‘Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you’

- Saint Bartholomew

stomp

‘You can’t create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings’

- Lisa Simpson