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8:19 AM"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."

— E. E. Cummings

I pushed the needle through In hopes of finding something beautiful

9:38 AM"…some people aren’t worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out of your kindness."

— Rob Sheffield

2:09 PM"I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love."

— David Eggers ‘What is the What’

10:47 AM"“Indeed our hearts are golden treasures, but a true tragedy would be to conceal your inner gold because you are afraid of someone stealing it or it falling and breaking. There is no love in fear. The great wisdom of the ages always tells us the more we Love the more of it you receive. Love is not a giving or a taking, it is a state of being - a one way street of allowing, accepting and holding a space for all things to be exactly as they are.

Fear not that your heart will be broken or stolen. Love becomes love. Give it away with no expectation of return and soon you will be having a love affair with the whole world!”
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— Jackson Kiddard

10:58 AM

LUMINOUS TEASE

Change yourself in the way you want everyone else to change
Love your enemies in case your friends turn out to be jerks
Avoid thinking about winning the lottery while making love
Brainwash yourself before someone nasty beats you to it
Confess big secrets to people who aren’t very interested
Write a love letter to your evil twin during a lunar eclipse
Fool the tricky red beasts guarding the Wheels of Time
Locate the master codex and add erudite graffiti to it
Dream up wilder, wetter, more interesting problems
Change your name every day for a thousand days
Exaggerate your flaws till they turn into virtues
Kill the apocalypse and annihilate Armageddon
Brag about what you can’t do and don’t have
Get a vanity license plate that reads KZMYAZ
Bow down to the greatest mystery you know
Make fun of people who make fun of people
See how far you can spit a mouthful of beer
Pick blackberries naked in the pouring rain
Scare yourself with how beautiful you are
Simulate global warming into your pants
Stage a slow-motion water balloon fight
Pretend your wounds are exotic tattoos
Sing anarchist lullabies to lesbian trees
Plunge butcher knives into accordions
Commit a crime that breaks no laws
Sip the tears of someone you love
Build a plush orphanage in Minsk
Feel sorry for a devious lawyer
Rebel against your horoscope
Give yourself another chance
Write your autohagiography
Play games with no rules
Teach animals to dance
Trick your nightmares
Relax and go deeper
Dream like stones
Mock your fears
Drink the sun
Sing love
Be mojo
Do jigs
Ask id

1:02 PM

Last night I could not sleep

Thought about what you said to me

How memories are hallow seeds

Planting paper window dreams

And now I know just what that means

Most things don’t last and love can leave

And if we hold on to these memories

Of broken bonds that could not be

Framed in paper window dreams

10:53 AM"The sky was the color of Edgar Allan Poe’s pajamas."

— Tom Robbins

11:14 PM"Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean."

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10:40 PM"You can never tell what people have inside them, until you start taking it away."

— Shantaram

10:42 PM"I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires."

— Khalil Gibran

8:38 PM"Trust yourself. You’re making the right decision. Everything works out somehow. Life just gets weirder, and better, and worse, and more wonderful. Certainly the 30s are better than the 20s, and those older than I insist that the 40s are even better yet. We are all of us so lucky to be of a time and place where we are free to choose the lives that we want. Think deeply, and you will choose well."

— Kate Bolick