“I leave the house, I walk the streets, get melancholy, and come home again,”— Frédéric Chopin, from a letter to Tytus Woyciechowski c. September 1830
“I have my own light.”— Zoe Karelli, tr. by Kimon Friar, from Modern Greek Poetry; “Man, Feminine Gender,”
لا تخسر الشخص إللي يتحمل زعلك، يتحمل نفسيتك، يتحمل يكون غلطان بس عشان مايخسرك، لأن الحياة ماراح تكرره لك كثير.
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”— Kahlil Gibran
“Everybody isn’t going to love you. Most people don’t even love themselves.”— Unknown
Just a reminder because I know I needed to hear this today: we will be ok. We will get through this.
During these scary times, I want to be gentler with myself. I want to pay extra attention to my mental health instead of burying it under piles of busywork. I want to make art but with no expectations or pressure to create. I want to surrender myself to the fact that I have so many opportunities ahead of me, but today it’s fine if the only opportunity I take it to love myself a little bit.
The Circleville Herald, Ohio, April 2, 1928
i used to think i did not like to socialize. now i realize that i do not like to socialize in spaces where there is no love.
*forgives myself for the moments I’ve acted outside my values due to fear and uncertainty*