Jo Boniszewski

All those moments are alive in us today. We may not visit them anymore, very often, but we carry them in our DNA, our blood, our bones; informing the breadth and beauty of who we now are; our lesson to be lived.

The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.

It’s like something shifted when I spoke to you, I can’t even put words to it. This sense of gentle peace, space, lightness, freedom. The realization that the longing I carried for so long, that pain was not about him all along. It was the yearning to return to that place from which, once upon a time, we all came.

You sold me a dream and it shattered. I didn’t know how to put it back together again. So instead, I’m lovingly gluing those fragments anew with seams of gold, creating a vibrant new dream, rendering the broken strong and more than ever, breathtakingly beautiful.

If it matters, it will hurt like knives or wrap and lift you in the most immeasurable joy. Or both. One thing is certain, you will feel intensely alive.

She was taken by surprise at quite how breathtaking the twinkle in her eyes was. She listened and watched attentively, magnetized. As butterflies danced on her lips, her own stomach felt butterflies.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even a little unsound, and no one is so diseased but that some part of him will be healthy — so no man is so mentally and morally sound, but that he will be in part both mad and wicked; and no man is so mad and wicked but he will be sensible and honourable in part. In like manner there is no genius who is not also a fool, and no fool who is not also a genius.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

PATIENCE YOU MUST HAVE my young padawan.

It is at our mother’s knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals, but there is seldom any money in them.

Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.