you me, and the bourgeois

“Here’s to the moments when you realize the simple things are wonderful and enough.”

“Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.”

“It’s you. It’s been you for as long as I can remember. Everyone else has just been another failed attempt at perfecting the art of pretending you’re not. I miss you.”

ways to start feeling again

“Simplicity is the road to peace within. All this running after money and materialism, or competing with others for attention is not only futile, but works against us in removing all peace we had when just being happy to be alive and enjoying simple things.”

“Time can be slowed if you live deliberately. If you stop and watch sunsets. If you spend time sitting on porches listening to the woods. If you give in to the reality of the seasons.”

“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.”

“Go to nature while you can as much as you can. You don’t know if some accident or old age hits you to where you won’t be able to go anymore. But you’ll carry all the memories of each beautiful flower, stream, mountain and animal you’ve seen, and the wonderful feelings of those special moments you could feel deep down to your bones and in your soul, to be kept there forever and ever.”