one pomegranate a day

Everyone has a fairy tale inside that they can't read on their own. She needs someone who, with the wonder and charm in her eyes, read it and tell it to her.

~Pablo Neruda

This is my understanding of writing: to write in order to disappear, so that life is revealed to me, without me, my face at last, more blurred than the whiteness of the paper, bereft of reflection. world where one can forget oneself. Not a mirror, but a stone.

~Antonella Anedda

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

~ Anaïs Nin

The whales do not sing because they have an answer. They sing because they have a song.

~ Gregory Colbert

All arts contribute to the greatest of all arts, the art of living.

~ Bertold Brecht

Existence is exalting, as once curiosity is awakened; this exercise of curiosity transforms life into a poetic adventure.

~ Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier

We tell ourselves into being, don’t we? I think that is one of the great reasons for stories. I mean, we are the storytelling animal, there is no other creature on earth that tells itself stories in order to understand who it is.

~ Salman Rushdie

Art is our weapon. Culture is a form of resistance.

~ Shirin Neshat

There are people. There are stories. The people think that they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.

~ Alan Moore

Stories are an essential part of who we are. They are lies that are truer than facts.

~ Neil Gaiman

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

~ Maya Angelou

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you, the less you know.

~ Diane Arbus

Life is like that. Life is like a story you'd make up.

~ Maurice Sendak

How

to

tell a

shattered

story?

By

slowly

becoming

everybody.

No.

By slowly becoming

everything.

~ Arundhati Roy

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed few times since then.

~ Lewis Carrol

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.

~ Albert Einstein

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

~ Khalil Gibran

If not now, when? If not us, who?

~ Terence McKenna

If storytelling is the root of all communication, the manner in which we chose to tell the stories - abstract, or complex, or simple, or direct - is significant.

~ Miuccia Prada

...and I am going to pass it and get an A grade. And in two years' time I am going to take A level Physics and get an A grade...And then I will get a First Class Honours Degree and I will become a scientist. And I know I can do this because...I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.

~ Mark Haddon

We do not escape into philosophy, psychology and art - we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.

~ Anaïs Nin

A true thing poorly expressed is a lie.

~ Stephen Fry

I don't believe that people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

~ Joseph Campbell

To survive, you must tell stories.

~ Umberto Eco

Creativity takes courage.

~ Henri Matisse

My friends,

I address you all tonight as you truly are wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, magicians...Come and dream with me.

~ 'Hugo'

Laughter is delayed fear.

~ Roald Dahl

What matters most is how well you walk through fire.

~ Charles Bukowski

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

~ Herman Hesse

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Are you - Nobody - too?

~ Emily Dickinson

I love the idea of two incompatible worlds bright together - opposing forces harmonically melted.

~ George Condu

What is magic. Does it scare us. Does is heal. Why we grow up with it and slowly forget, refuse to acknowledge its presence and even claim a non-existence. Don't we all secretly believe in the truth of the inexplicable, in the secret language of the colors, in the capricious lunacy of the flowers.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

~ Ram Dass

She acted, that is to say she pretended, and as she pretended, she became.

~ Neil Jordan

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

~ Adrienne Rich

Pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells and constellations.

~ Anaïs Nin

To imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

~ Milan Kundera

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to get through this thing called life.

~ Prince