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It gives me extreme pleasure to know my daughter only has one Dad. It is a most selfish thought, yet so comforting.

“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”

Sometimes I feel like a bad person. Where it seems demons are chasing after you. You can't escape. Eventually getting ahold of you, feeling possessed by evil thoughts. Then you realize how bad you really are because you are trying to get back to good.

You keep nothing in the end, just reflections.

"It's a beautiful good life You know the world is a jungle But you don't have to crumble 'Cause it's a beautiful good life."

"A flower that is in bloom only lasts a short while because the winds that made it bloom are also what make it fall apart."

i am the forever fool, lost in books touching so little grass.

"People's accusations are not a reflection of you- they're a confession from them. Their rage is their fear. Their criticism is their secret shame. Their envy is their lack. Stop defending yourself from their projections. Stop accepting their judgments as your identity. Ignore them. Live your life as you see best."

we thought the future would be chrome and speed, but it turns out the next era is clay. linen. ink. instruments. soil. it's the curve of real handwriting. the creak of a leather book. the sound of someone working. humanity is circling back to itself. and it feels like medicine. - Victoria Erickson

It's a beautiful, good life.

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news.”

I have many things to show you, which have not come to me so easily. They've arrived in pain, being a fool many times over. These are life's weight you cannot bear just now and so I practice patience. The thought of the days I can reveal them to you linger on my mind constantly. I have lived things in this world which I shouldn't have been so negative and mistaken about, wasted energies. It is through darkness I have been able to see light and even then just barely. What little wisdom I have acquired, it is your reward if you wish to have it.

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” - Issac Asimov

"And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."

"UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." -Lorax, Dr. Seuss

“Some people fall in love with people’s flowers and not their root’s so when it becomes autumn, they don’t know what to do.”

"Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love." - East of Eden

“You see, there’s a responsibility in being a person. It’s more than just taking up space where air would be." - East of Eden

there is plenty in your life that will not be your fault, but will end up being your responsibility.