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“But he who has a pact with aloneness can even now prepare the way for all this that in the future may well be possible for many, and can build with hands less apt to err. Therefore, dear friend, embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant and you say. That shows it is beginning to dawn around you, there is an expanse opening about you. And when your nearness becomes distant, then you have already expanded far: to being among the stars. Your horizon has widened greatly. Rejoice in your growth. No one can join you in that.” - Rainier Maria Rilke




Photo is "The Open Sky" from Foureyes.

14.

“The aim of life is self-development. To realise one’s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.” - Oscar Wilde




Photo is "Empty" from Sleax.

13.

“The body suffers more than the soul, because the soul can always find something to hang on to, a memory, a hope.” - Reinaldo Arenas




Photo is "Lobotomy Screen" from The Real Indio.

12.

“I don’t think it’s about finding happiness, but rather, finding redemption — finding the ability to redeem yourself, to give yourself
back to yourself. And that’s not something you find once and then you’re done; you don’t reach some magical point one day where the whole puzzle falls into place. Every day is the process of looking for the missing pieces — every day you find some new way to give yourself back to yourself, every day is a healing process, every day is a happily-ever-after in progress. It never ends — it’s as eternal as we are.” - Noah Grey




Photo is "Redemption" from Density-tmr.

11.

“Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deap heart. Truly great men, I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky




Photo is "Sorrow" from Sweet Lovely Death.

10.

“There is a furnace in our cells, and when we breathe we pass the world through our bodies, brew it lightly, and turn it loose again, quietly altered for having known us.” - Diane Ackerman




Photo is "Cells" from Anjaleck.

9.

"Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain." - Billie Holiday




Photo is "Rainy Morning" from Mutrus.