Randomized Posts of Pessimism and Optimism

“Someday you will look back and know exactly why it had to happen.”

“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”

“This poem is the poem about how I lost you before I even had you.”

“You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.”

“To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it’s over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that’s rare…That’s rare and valuable.”

“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t tell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.”

“I think one of my favorite feelings is laughing with someone and realizing half way through how much you enjoy them and their existence.”

“Someday you’ll find someone special again. People who’ve been in love once usually do. It’s in their nature.”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.”