Patiently accept the inevitable for it is Maktub ...

"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." 

Alexander Pope

Mean Flower by Joe Henry

The deal ...

"To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due." 

Neil Gaiman

By Jim Zuckerman

Silent conversation ...

"My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments—we hear a word that sticks in our mind—or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly—we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with us in a Dairy Queen—or we have an episode like the one I had with the M&M cars back at the Husky station. 

And if we were to collect these small moments in a notebook and save them over a period of months we would see certain trends emerge from our collection—certain voices would emerge that have been trying to speak through us. We would realize that we have been having another life altogether; one we did not even know was going on inside us. And maybe this other life is more important than the one we think of as being real—this clunky day-to-day world of furniture and noise and metal. So just maybe it is these small silent moments which are the true story-making events of our lives." 

Douglas Coupland 

The land of tears ...

“Sadness of the intellect ... 

Sadness of being misunderstood; 

Humour sadness;

Sadness of love without release; 

Sadness of being smart; 

Sadness of not knowing enough words to express what you mean; 

Sadness of having options; 

Sadness of wanting sadness;

Sadness of confusion; 

Sadness of domesticated birds, 

Sadness of finishing a book;

Sadness of remembering; 

Sadness of forgetting;

Anxiety sadness...”

Jonathan Safran Foer

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Arvo Pärt - Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

Strange angels ...

"Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colours to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched. How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These thoughts are saving a life somewhere right now. Such life saving power when you smile."

 

 Henry Rollins

Contemplation by Andrew Atroshenko

"Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street." 

James Thurber

The lost fox ...

"I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed." 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)