inspiration

have patience with everything unresolved in your heart
and try to love the questions themselves...
don't search for the answers,
which could not be given to you now,
because you would not be able to live them.
and the point is, to live everything.
live the questions now.
perhaps then, someday far in the future,
you will gradually, without even noticing it,
live your way into the answer.
[rainer maria rilke]

everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
[leo tolstoy]

every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.
[lorrie moore]

it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.
[raymond carver]