Sasha Chorny, Translated By Bernard Meares, From “My Love,” Written C. 1919

Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mary Bowles (about December 1858)

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

“Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?”

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

i think the reason why the ring finger is the ring finger is romantic

Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

— Haruki Murakami

“Her brown eyes were untranslatable…She was made entirely of a sweetness bordering on tears.”

— Clarice Lispector, from “The Servant”, Complete Stories (trans. Katarina Dodson)