a silver thread

“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

…And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

When you know yourself, you are empowered. When you accept yourself, you are invincible.