Monday 15 January 2024

Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.

I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when their face says they want to say something but can’t, the way they look at someone they want or love… I love the way people look when they do these things. It’s… beautiful.

Unless you know who you are, you will always be vulnerable to what people say.

Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.

The best part of your life will be those small, nameless moments you spent with someone who matters to you.

If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Kirsten and Joerg

Victorian House