Thoughts through trees
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires”.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Roots
“Le persone paurose che hanno visitato la mia vita sono quelle che più mi hanno danneggiato. Illudendosi di proteggermi per ripararmi dal dolore, in verità hanno allontanato da me la felicità. E la mia vera essenza. Hanno minato la mia fiducia e scavato una tana alla rabbia che per lungo mi ha sfiancato”.
Paola De Benedictis
Boundaries
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear”.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Almond Blossom
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom”.
Marcel Proust
States of Being
“Nothing is built on stone. All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone”.
Jorge Luis Borges
Take me Home
“Home, let me come home
Home is wherever I’m with you
Home, let me come home
Home is wherever I’m with you”.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero
Breaking News
“We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies”.
Emily Dickinson
