J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
"Stay close to people who feel like sunlight."
"Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different."
Xan Oku
"Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different."
David Brooks, The Road to Character
"It takes a huge effort to free yourself from memory."
Paulo Coelho
"I have faith in nights."
Rainer Maria Rilke, from “You, Darkness”
"Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool."
Robert Brault
"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
"…I have the fleeting confidence of people who fall out of a clock tower and for a moment sail through the air in a comfortable fairy-world, feeling no pain anywhere…"
Colette, from a letter to Marguerite Moreno written c. May 1925
"There is a Buddhist monk who collects Comme des Garçons religiously. Once a month, Tsuzuki told me, the monk sheds his robes, dons Comme des Garçons’ avant-garde constructionist clothes, and heads from his temple to Tokyo to pick up a few more pieces. He is so convinced of their miraculous powers that he says his delinquent sister cleaned up her act when she started wearing Comme des Garçons. There’s an English teacher at a prep school who started wearing Gianni Versace’s flamboyant designs to keep the attention of his students. After ten years, he had one hundred pieces of Versace as well as an impressive Bulgari jewelry collection. He lives in a shoebox apartment with his unemployed girlfriend, who spends her days organizing the collection. There’s a Tom Ford collector (she has both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent), an Armani man, a McQueen girl, and a Martin Margiela manic who is so fastidious about his collection that he never cooks at home because he doesn’t want the clothes to retain the odors. The only thing in his refrigerator is eyedrops. ‘When he gets thirsty,’ Tsuzuki said, ‘he goes to the convenience shop and drinks there then goes back home. He does not want to put any kind of trash in the room.’"
Dana Thomas, Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster
"You would rather have gone on feeling nothing,
emptiness and silence; the stagnant peace
of the deepest sea, which is easier
than the noise and flesh of the surface."
emptiness and silence; the stagnant peace
of the deepest sea, which is easier
than the noise and flesh of the surface."
Margaret Atwood, from Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986
"Academic excellence is not gifted, it is earned. Knowledge is not a nebulous substance that enters you via osmosis, you have to acquire it and keep it, integrate it, make it yours. The mind is not something that is, but something that has to be actively formed."
"You will fall
fall for her flaws
her soul
and her thorned heart"
fall for her flaws
her soul
and her thorned heart"
"I want to scare people. I want to leave the imprint of my personality carved in marble."
Anne Sexton, from a session tape w. Dr. Martin Orne c. 1963
"She is nighttime on fire / inside herself"
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, from “Assigned at Birth,” There Should Be Flowers
"I am perfectly aware,
perfectly cold;"
"It’s better this way. A little lonelier but better."
perfectly cold;"
H.D., from Collected Poems: 1912-1944; “The Dancer,”
"It’s better this way. A little lonelier but better."
Lisa Schroeder, The Day Before/
"Cast yourself. You are the spell."
T. Thorn Coyle, Evolutionary Witchcraft
"And everything stayed unsaid."
Ingeborg Bachmann, tr. by Eavan Boland, from “Departure from England,”
"We found each other
By design or chance- who cares?
We found each other"
By design or chance- who cares?
We found each other"
Nicholas A Browne | Haiku 46
"But there is very little that consoles."
Ingeborg Bachmann, tr. by Eavan Boland, from “Autumn Maneuver,”
"Some fall in love.
I shatter."
I shatter."
"I feel fine. A stoic / ice glistens in / me now. I am serene now, / with light."
César Vallejo, tr. by Clayton Eshleman, from “White Rose,”
"And there was thunder in an opening rose."
Dylan Thomas, from The Collected Poems; “Within his head revolved a little word,”
"Hope is a passion for the possible."
"If you can see it, it can see you. That’s true of just about anything."
Margaret Atwood, from an interview conducted c. August 2014
"I become a myth more radiant than any / and, sculpted in dusk, I am and am not, but I am."
Carlos Drummond de Andrade, from Multitudinous Heart: Poems; “Field of Flowers,”
"My presence is as potent on his nerves as a ghost; and I fancy he sees me often, though I am not near."
Emily Brontë, from “Wuthering Heights,”
"I am possessive about time alone."
"Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter."
"I want this noise within me to die down."
Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
"Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter."
Carol Bishop Hipps, “October,” In a Southern Garden.
"I want this noise within me to die down."
Alice Notley, from Certain Magical Acts; “Two of Swords,”
"Dark as it is – you see,
that little flickering,
is the light of my soul."
"I myself stand in my own way."
"Some days I’m Van Gogh’s Starry Night other days I’m his suicide letter."
that little flickering,
is the light of my soul."
Else Lasker-Schüler, tr. by Brooks Haxton, from My Blue Piano; “To The Golden Knight,”
"I myself stand in my own way."
Wislawa Szymborska, from Poems: New & Collected; “Under One Small Spark,”
"Some days I’m Van Gogh’s Starry Night other days I’m his suicide letter."
"The woman who checks her makeup half a dozen times a day to see if her foundation has caked or her mascara has run, who worries that the wind or the rain may spoil her hairdo, who looks frequently to see if her stockings have bagged at the ankle or who, feeling fat, monitors everything she eats, has become, just as surely as the inmate of the Panopticon, a self-policing subject, a self committed to a relentless self-surveillance. This self-surveillance is a form of obedience to patriarchy. It is also the reflection in woman’s consciousness of the fact that she is under surveillance in ways that he is not, that whatever else she may become, she is importantly a body designed to please or to excite."
Sandra Lee Bartky, “Foucault, Femininity, and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
"I want to talk about what happened without mentioning how much it hurt. There has to be a way. To care for the wounds without reopening them. To name the pain without inviting it back into me."
Lora Mathis, If There’s A Way Out I’ll Take It
"But if I’m dark I’m strong
as my own darkness (…)"
as my own darkness (…)"
Alice Notley, from Selected Poems; “30th Birthday,”
"to reject starvation / cultivate hollowness, make room / for your hunger,"
Stacey Gruver, from “Erosion is Self Care,” published in Yes, Poetry
"I love the way she does nothing
and still takes over the entire room."
and still takes over the entire room."
"They thought I was so brave, working the way I did just to hide a broken heart."
Sylvia Plath, from a diary entry featured in The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath
"I was seeing not you / but something that lives between us, that can live / only between us."
Sharon Olds, from Selected Poems; “You Kindly,”
"Never confuse what you are offered with what you are worth."
Unknown
"Or perhaps it is crazy because we do not control it. It is frightening. One must be able to: let oneself make one’s way; not prohibit oneself. One must trust in: that is to say be in a sort of passivity, of faith. One needs a passivity that is, always, active. Passivity is the secret: it is either the passivity of a numbed animal; or, on the contrary, a way of preparing oneself for a superior activity; it’s a paradoxical activity. To exceed oneself in all ways."
Hélène Cixous, from Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing; “Poetry, Passion and History,”
"It isn’t possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal."
"Quiet, yet wild.
Rough, and yet gentle,"
Rough, and yet gentle,"
Sylvia Plath, from The Collected Poems; “Child,”
"One’s own life—one’s own secret private life—what a queer positive thing it is. Nobody knows where you are—nobody has the remotest idea who you are, even."
Katherine Mansfield, letter to Lady Ottoline Morrell dated June 28, 1919
"It’s a strange feeling to miss something you don’t even know."
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
"And like the moon, we must go through phases of emptiness to feel full again."
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nounsudden expression or outburst of a particular emotion.
7 Tips for Overcoming Feelings of Inadequacy
onlinecounsellingcollege:1. Remind yourself that you are not who other people think or say you are.
2. Remind yourself that everybody makes mistakes at times, has areas of weakness, and things they want to change.
3. Remind yourself of ways in which you’ve grown and changed with time. You’re not who you once were - so celebrate how far you’ve come.
4. Also, the ending isn’t written and the future isn’t fixed. You’re free to change your image, and an old identity.
5. Identify the lies you have believed about yourself – and work on changing them so they’re more accurate and true. Also, don’t reinforce those lies by acting like you think they’re true.
6. Remember that your feelings are not the same as facts. Don’t live based on your feelings … as that will keep you trapped.
7. Hang out with those who see, and who appreciate, your worth. And take their words to heart, and let them help to build you up.
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