Ernest Hemingway once said: In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.
Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.
My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.
So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.
Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.
@lonelytauros
I love that! It truly resonates with me at a deep level.
Apparently Hemingway couldn’t find anyone to sit beside him the night he killed himself.
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem
Via Daily Pnut
An exchange from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien on moving forward despite the difficulties we face:
Frodo: "I wish none of this had happened." Gandalf: "So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Via James Clear 3-2-1 newsletter
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’”
– KURT VONNEGUT
Via Nice News
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. William arthur ward
Via Primer magazine
“The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.”
I love this quote!
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. norman douglas
Via Primer Magazine
I decided to post this here, but really quotes from Heinlein could beneficially fill a dedicated thread.
“Learn to say No—and to be rude about it when necessary. Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Be forgiving to all and all is forgiven.
Do not hold onto the actions or the words of others, they will haunt you forever.
The investment you have made in truth is a reveal path to your unconcious mind, don't disappoint.
The group will judge your things based on the many things in the group. Make them shiney.
You are not battling a person, you are always battling a narrative. Who could have known that third party trust in a destiny node could hold the shape of opinion.
The shower of enlightenment is shrouded in the appeal of yesterday's blanket.
-Gar
"We're all here because we're not all there"
Said to me by a former student, quoting another former student.
“I must confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants. This is ecstasy, and behind the ecstasy is something else, which is hard to explain. It is like a momentary vacuum into which rushes all that I love. A sense of oneness with sun and stone. A thrill of gratitude to whom it may concern―to the contrapuntal genius of human fate or to tender ghosts humoring a lucky mortal.” — Vladimir Nabokov
I love Nabokov, especially being the dedicated lepidopterist he was! Discovered & named a few, too. But then later in another letter, he quotes: “Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple—these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.”
“I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.” ― Nikita Gill
"The strongest steel is forged in the fire of a dumpster"