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“You don’t meet the people you love, you recognize them.”

― Anna Gavalda, “Life, Only Better” , trans. Tina Kover

“You and I know each other in our bones”

― Kurt Vonnegut, from a letter to Nanny Vonnegut 

“but everyone had this patina

  of slightly bruised longing, this shimmer of

  I think I knew you when we were children,

  this look of I’ve loved you ever since you

were born

  and probably longer than that”

― Paul Hostovsky, from “Everyone was Beautiful,” Dear Truth (Main Street Rag, 2009)

“He’s been here in my heart before I even knew him. Understand? He’s always been here. Always.”

― Sandra Cisneros , from Woman at Hollering Creek: Stories; “Never Marry a Mexican,”

“You came into my life–not as one comes to visit…but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps…”

— Vladimir Nabokov, in a letter to Véra Slonim (1923), Letters to Véra

“I love you. I feel as though we were never strangers, you and I, not even for a moment.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, from a letter to Mathilde Trampedach

“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”

— Robert Brault

“Here when I say “I never want to be without you,”

somewhere else I am saying

“I never want to be without you again.” And when I touch you

in each of the places we meet in all of the lives we are,

it’s with hands that are dying and resurrected.

When I don’t touch you it’s a mistake in any life,

in each place and forever.

— Bob Hicok, Other Lives and Dimensions and Finally a Love Poem

“She said that she had been searching for my eyes in the crowd because she felt as if she were talking to my heart.”

— Audre Lorde, from “Zami: A New Spelling of my Name,” published c. 1982

“Who knows? perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening…”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, from You who never arrived (tr. by Stephen Mitchell); Uncollected Poems: 1913–1918

by Sean Sacdalan

Blanketed hills (Mećavnik / Drvengrad, Serbia)

© T.M. Fletcher

Tips for anxiety/worrying about the future?

Focus only on the present moment, on things you can only control. The practice of being in the present will heal you. Becoming obsessive with the future only creates anxiety, and worry. Work on doing the best you can now, as that’ll be the results of future success. You must train your mind to not worry so much of the unknown, because what’s important is the you right now, not the you in the future. Because without the present, there’s no future. I know it’s much easier said than done, but with time, practice and patience, it’ll get easier. I used to be constantly worried about everything in the past, present and future. But with time, I’ve taught myself that being so worried and stressed about the future, only held me back from doing my absolute best now, and that I couldn’t be my best self without changing. So I did my best to train my mind to not worry on what I couldn’t control. Though not every day is perfect, and some days I do wonder of what my future holds, but it’s not enough to consume me. It’s okay to have off days, here and there. Do things that’ll help you stay grounded, and present such as practising daily gratitude, daily guided meditation, surrounding yourself in environments that makes you feel at peace and calm, doing things that’ll help keep you busy and distracted such as new hobbies, learning a new skill, working, studying, etc. Don’t put so much pressure on yourself, let your life flow at it’s own pace. What is meant for you will come to you at the moment it needs to. Wishing you all the best! 💗

Two old men hand in hand rush for taking place for prayer time in the Yeni Cami mosque in Istanbul. Photographer: Marco Vacca