one pomegranate a day

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

~ Shirin Neshat

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

~ Maya Angelou

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

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, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

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

~ Lewis Carrol, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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

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

~Anaïs Nin

...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, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

A true thing poorly expressed is a lie.

~Stephen Fry

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.

~ Galileo Galilei

I had always known the sky was full of mysteries - but not until now had I realized how full of them the earth was.

~ Ransom Riggs

My friends,

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

~ 'Hugo'

What matters most is how well you walk through fire.

~ Charles Bukowski

Laughter is delayed fear.

~ Roald Dahl

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Are you - Nobody - too?

~ Emily Dickinson

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

~ Herman Hesse

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.

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

~ Neil Jordan, Shade

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

~ Adrienne Rich

Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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,

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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

~Prince