I've loved the dark, Always~

"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."

Stephenie Meyer

Happy birthday, Stephenie Meyer! When the Twilight author was four years old, she met her future husband, Christian Meyer. They got married seventeen years later.

Love "Your" Window by Mark Nepo

So Wonderful~

LOVE YOUR WINDOW  No matter how small or old. Keep it  clean so you can see what comes your way.  When the lost bird flies into it looking for  its mate, keep the feather stuck to the glass.  Take it with you and dream of finding what  completes you. At the edge of winter, open  the window of your heart and see your  breath, how what you bring up becomes  the air. When you’re ready or pushed,  close your eyes and the other window  will appear, the one that faces all of  time. What flies there never lands, but  hovers, dropping seeds of infinity in the  breaks we can’t heal. So open the window  of your pain, though the whisperers tell you  to nail it shut, and let in everything that’s  ever lived. What flies and never lands has  been waiting. Be brave. Don’t run. Let the  fire around your window burn until you  become the opening.

Sometimes less is more!

"In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things."

Edna O'Brien

Happy birthday, Edna O'Brien! The Irish PEN Award recipient didn't know what kind of books she would write—if any—until she stumbled across A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce and realized it was autobiographical. Inspired, she started writing what would become her award-winning debut book, The Country Girls.

Life IS a resilient thing!

"There’s no such thing as ruining your 

life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out."

 

Sophie Kinsella

Happy birthday, Sophie Kinsella! The bestselling British author had already published five books under her real name—Madeleine Wickham—when she submitted a manuscript for a breezy chick lit story called Confessions of a Shopaholic. Worried her publisher wouldn't like the new direction, she used Sophie Kinsella as a pen name.

The heart of another~

"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own." 

Willa Cather

American author Willa Cather (born December 7, 1873) only ever owned one house, a secluded summer cottage on Grand Manan Island in Canada. The small home had neither indoor plumbing nor electricity, but Cather liked the fact no one could telephone her there.

This is absolutely the truest thought I've read~ Although we may rush in saying, "Oh I know, Oh I've been there, that exact thing happened to me, Oh I can just feel your pain~   Never can we experience the same feelings, have the same reaction, or truly know how another feels...no matter how close.  Our dark forest belongs only to each of us~

Can two minuses make a plus??

Sometimes two minuses make a plus.
--Edith Shannon

What appears to be a problem sometimes turns out to be a most beneficial circumstance. We live only in the present, and it generally takes the perspective of hindsight to get the full meaning of an event. Over the years, we have learned that some of our best lessons actually caused us pain while we were in their clutches. What a relief to be able to see, now, that they had their silver lining. This principle still holds true.

We have had a lot of years to learn to take our experiences in stride, giving them no more weight than they deserve. But it's easy to forget that it's the accumulation of them all that defines who we are. The lost jobs, the friends who left, the hurdles in a marriage all played their part in the people we've become today. We are who we need to be right now.

I can't let a setback set me back today. I am evolving right on schedule.

from Keepers of the Wisdom by Karen Casey