Writers Deserve To Be Paid.

Everything begins, therefore, with belief.

The greatest force in the human body is the natural drive of the body to heal itself - but that force is not independent of the belief system, which can translate expectations into physiological change. Nothing is more wondrous about the fifteen billion neurons in the human brain than their ability to convert thoughts, hopes, ideas, and attitudes into chemical substances. Everything begins, therefore, with belief. What we believe is the most powerful option of all." — Norman Cousins, Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration (Open Road Media, September 27, 2016) (via Alive on All Channels)

“A cage went in search of a bird.”

— Franz Kafka

dont cry . your body is holy + the truth is tiny compared to the things you have to do, ok ?

your honor my client is guilty can i get another one

“I tell you what I see—the landscape of the spirit requires a lung, but no tongue. I hold you few I love, till my heart is red as February and purple as March.”

— Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. Holland written c. February 1856

Love stains the heart

Always will

The way a water line leaves its mark on a boat

Try how you might to forget and move on

You may pull your vessel to dry land

The memories always remain

I would not be the person I am without the authors who made me what I am - the special ones, the wise ones, sometimes just the ones who got there first.

Neil Gaiman (via resqectable)

Dear march, come in! How glad I am! I hoped for you before. Put down your hat – you must have walked – how out of breath you are! dear march, how are you? and the rest? Did you leave nature well? Oh march, come right upstairs with me, I have so much to tell.

Emily Dickinson

coming across a post from a mutual who hasn't opted in yet

Ocean Vuong, from “Beautiful Short Loser”

[text ID: Sometimes, when I can’t sleep, I imagine Van Gogh singing / Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” into his cut ear & feeling peace.]