They asked:
“Why does nature feel so peaceful?”
I said:
Because nothing is pretending, proving, comparing, or competing. The birds sing without concern over how they sound. The rivers flow without trying to get anywhere faster. And the trees grow without questioning whether they’re enough. Everything simply expresses its nature.
— Vex King
There are large, glamorous industries around stories; the book industry, the movie industry, the television industry, the theatre industry.
“But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I’m saying? Does it also feel this way to you?”
“The deepest love is having someone see the parts you cannot accept, and choosing to stay.”
— Attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The deepest fear is that someone will see everything you hid, and decide they were better off without you.”
— Attributed to Franz Kafka