When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens like one of those fluted Japanese blossoms, flimsy and spastic, bright and warm. This almost always seems to happen in community.
Annie Lamott quoted in The Impossible Will Take A Little While
Only people who avoid love can avoid grief. The point is to learn from it, and remain vulnerable to love.
John Brantner
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.
J. M. Barrie, The Little Minister (1891)
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
