I Feel Very Small. I Don't Understand. I Have So Much Courage, Fire, Energy, For Many Things, Yet I Get

“I feel very small. I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.”

Anaïs Nin, from nearer the moon: the previously unpublished unexpurgated diary,1937-1939

If only people can also be treated the same way.

Got this one secondhand book from library and the feeling that it has already been loved by someone so much so now it's my responsibility to love it equally

act of service

“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”

Franz Kafka.

sometimes you just need to listen to the same song for an entire week to truly heal

will you just let me be silly for a sec. there's this dread so ancient in me