Didn't even know I had this picture of my sisters, Kelechi and Chidinma. I Love it with everything in my heart.
sisterly Love.
the brilliant nonsenses of lewis carroll.
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would be. Do you see?” “Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!" "Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.” Be what you would seem to be- or, if you'd like it put more simply- never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.” “Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them." I see nobody on the road." said Alice. I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!” “Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.” “I mean, what is an un-birthday present?" A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course." Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last. You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. And how many birthdays have you?" One.” “I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast. Count them, Alice. One, there are drinks that make you shrink. Two, there are foods that make you grow. Three, animals can talk. Four, cats can disappear. Five, there is a place called Underland. Six, I can slay the Jabberwocky.” “Do you think I've gone round the bend?" "I'm afraid so. You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret... All the best people are.”
Like this:
never too late or early for this.
May your coming year be filled
with magic and dreams and good madness.
I hope you read some fine books
and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful,
and don’t forget to make some art —
write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can.
And I hope, somewhere in the next year...
you surprise yourself.
-Neil Gaiman
5 wonderful Kahlil Gibran quotes
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may give them your Love, but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday. I love you my brother whoever you are whether you worship in your church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are all children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the Loving hand of the one Supreme Being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit, eager to receive all. Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil. For what is Evil but Good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? When Good is hungry, it seeks food, even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks, even of dead waters. How generous you are, Earth, and how strong is your yearning for your children lost between that which they have attained and that which they could not obtain. We clamor and you smile; we flit but you stay! We extract your elements to make cannons and bombs, but out of our elements you create lilies and roses. You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pastures. They give that they may live. For to withhold is to perish. Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is also worthy of all else from you.
Like this:
David Abraham (Becoming Animal)
"There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute Love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there."
Like this:
Game of Thrones.
"Let me give you some counsel, bastard,” Lannister said. “Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you." -George R.R. Martin.
on books.
Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words. -Rachel Kadish,Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story
-Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
