That’s the very reason they put rubbers on the end of pencils... because people make mistakes.

– Phoebe Waller-Bridge

We have a saying in Afrikaans that translates to "you are missing someone you don't know". And we usually say it when someone has unexplained sadness.

“Though we live in a world made of gifts, we find ourselves harnessed to institutions and an economy that relentlessly asks, ‘What more can we take from the Earth?’ This worldview of unbridled exploitation is to my mind the greatest threat to the life that surrounds us. Even our definitions of sustainability revolve around trying to find the formul

"Some books leave

us free and some

books make us

free.!"

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

maybe this ache in my chest is actually the feeling of my heart growing stronger from its battles.

louise kaufmann

"You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes too near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their Sweetn