They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
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Tom Bodett
I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken. But I...
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Lana Del Rey
But time given to wishing for what can't be is not only spent, but wasted, and for all that we waste we shall be accountable.
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Penelope Fitzgerald
But no. There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.
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Patrick Rothfuss
I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no...
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Markus Zusak
More Quotes By Theodore Roethke
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.
In a dark time, the eye begins to see.
By daily dying, I have come to be.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against a sweating wall, That place among the rocks--is it a cave, Or winding path? The edge is what I have...........