«So, every time he felt on the verge of being swept away by anxiety and his thoughts were dangerously becoming an incoherent mush, he would get on his car and drive without a specific destination.»
By Raquel R. in Short Story number 12
«I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.»
Jack Kerouac
«It had been a long journey and in many chapters of his life he doubted if he would ever reach a happy ending.»By Raquel R. in Short Story number 6
«I suppose I should wish you success, but that is too easy. I would like to wish you something that is harder to come by. So I am going to wish you meaning in life. And meaning is not something you stumble across like the answer to a riddle or prize in a treasure hunt.Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you; out of your own talent and understanding, out of things and people you love, out of the values for which you are willing to sacrifice something, the ingredients are there.You are the only one who can put them together into that unique pattern that will be your life. Let it be a life that has dignity and meaning for you. If it does, then the particular balance of success or failure is of less account. »
«He felt in awe with her presence and her eyes spoke to him in the inexplicable language of those sharing the indestructible bond of embracing each other, exactly as they were, without any reservations.»
By Raquel R. in Short Story number 6
«For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.»Rainer Maria Rilke
«While some of those feelings carried with them painful memories and sad moments, others, took him by the hand and walked with him through happy and sunny days.»
By Raquel R. in Short Story number 6
«Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don't think you've lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.»
Asha Tyson
«He closed the book and stood there in silence, just realizing that all the significant feelings, he had experienced throughout his life, were still alive, though, carefully stored in a safe and recondite place somewhere inside his heart.»
By Raquel R. in Short Story number 6
«For now, his journey was over but he knew that others will follow. When that moment arrived again, he would be ready to leave, carrying hope in his heart.»
«This decisive moment, restored in him the faith that he needed to carry on with his journey. Slowly but utterly he progressed in the terrain and finally reached the summit of the rocky hill.»
By Raquel R. in Short Story number 5
«If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.»
Cesare Pavese
«On those occasions, he clung to the certainty that he was not alone in this journey. Many others were on the way, and like him, struggled to remain faithful to the hope of a happy ending.»
By Raquel R. in Short Story number 5
«We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.»Marcel Proust
«The first contact with this new reality was disastrous to him. The deceiving terrain hid many dangers which needed to be carefully anticipated in order to be avoided. Lacking this capacity, he was often mislead by the apparent solidness of the path, only to be betrayed by some unsteady rocks, which made him fell on his knees time and time again.»
«Once we’re thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it’s only here that the new and the good begins. As long as there's life, there's happiness. There's much, much still to come.»Leo Tolstoy
