“Each year is like putting a new coat over all the old ones. Sometimes I reach into the pockets of my childhood and pull things out.”
—
Simon Van Booy, from “Little Birds,”
The Secret Lives of People in Love
(Turtle Point Press, 2007)
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“The precious intimacy of little things.”
— Daphne du Maurier, from “I Will Never Be Young Again,” published c. 1932
“You are not the value others assigned to you. You are the value Jesus gives you.”
— and He values You enough to give His life so you can live
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”
— Anaïs Nin (via quotemadness)