Epiphany

[Ruto]

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer. Franz Kafka.

Jeg er ikke så flink med ord, så dette blir mer eller mindre en copy/paste-dagbok. Sitater, dikt, tekster, sanger. Følelser, tanker, ideer, håp. Vet ikke helt hva jeg forventer, men trenger en plass jeg kan formidle hva enn det måtte være.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. Vladimir Nabakov.

Forstå det den som kan.

[Ruto]

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. Douglas MacArthur.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! Charles Dickens.

Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. Ruth Gendler.

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face. Nelson DeMille.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. Nelson Mandela.

Endret 6. desember 2011 av Ruto

[Ruto]

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. André Dubus.

[Ruto]

Never, never, never, never give up. Winston Churchill.

They can’t hurt you unless you let them. Ukjent.

Endret 20. desember 2011 av Ruto

[Ruto]

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. Doug Larson.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion. Voltaire.

[Ruto]

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. Bill Vaughn.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. Hamilton Wright.

New year, same goal. Joe King.

[Ruto]

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining somewhere nearby. Ruth E. Renkel.

[Ruto]

Kom til meg, alle dere som strever og bærer tunge byrder, så vil jeg gi dere hvile. Matt 11:28.

[Ruto]

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing. Anais Nin.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Herman Hesse.

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness. David Weatherford.

[Ruto]

I desire the things which will destroy me in the end. Sylvia Plath.