Strength

Some of us think holding on makes us strong;

but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

 

 Game of Thrones

Perspectives

Larry: I'm trying very hard not to judge you.

Ben: Me? You murdered your entire family!

Larry: Yes. But I was never unfaithful.

American Horror Story (2011)

Lesson 5: How to Surrender

Lay it down, child

And walk into this room

All made with love for you.

 Ed Kowalczyk & Neneh Cherry - Walk into this Room

Playing by Heart (1998)

Damaged People (10)

Mr. Reese: In the end we're all alone

and no one is coming to save you.

Person of Interest (2011)

Like a Child. Again.

Karma is a Bitch

The funny thing about revenge
is that most of the times

when it finally strikes

you don’t really care anymore.

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Stuff We Leave Behind (2)

The Eternal Sunshine

Clementine: I wish you had stayed.

Joe: I wish I had stayed too.

Now I wish I had stayed.

I wish I had done a lot of things.

I wish I had... I wish I had stayed. I do.

Clementine: Well, I came back downstairs and you were gone!

Joel: I walked out, I walked out the door!

Clementine: Why?

Joel: I don't know. I felt like I was a scared little kid,

I was like... it was above my head, I don't know.

Clementine: You were scared?

Joel: Yeah. I thought you knew that about me.

I ran back to the bonfire, trying to outrun my humiliation.

Clementine: Was it something I said?

Joel: Yeah, you said "so go".

The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

You Be Strong

Hawkeye: You be strong, you survive...

You stay alive, no matter what occurs!

I will find you. No matter how long it takes,

no matter how far, I will find you.

The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

After All This Time

Da una lacrima sul viso

Ho capito molte cose

Dopo tanti, tanti mesi ora so

Cosa sono per te

Uno sguardo ed un sorriso

M'han svelato il tuo segreto

Che sei stata innamorata di me

Ed ancora lo sei

Non ho mai capito, non sapevo che

Che tu, che tu, tu mi amavi ma

Come me, non trovavi mai

Il coraggio di dirlo, ma poi...

Quella lacrima sul viso

É un miracolo d'amore

Che si avvera in questo istante per me

E non amo che te

Bobby Solo - Una Lacrima Sul Viso

Somewhere Only We Know

Briony: So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have

the time together they both so longed for... and deserved.

But what sense of hope or satisfaction

could a reader derive from an ending like that?

So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia

what they lost out on in life.

I'd like to think this isn't weakness or... evasion...

but a final act of kindness. I gave them their happiness.

Atonement (2007)

Lesson 4: How To Protect Yourself

"Don't hug me this way, don't touch me this way
Don't hug me again, don't hug me again"

Moby - Mistake

Lesson 3: How To Deal With Nostalgia

"I go to sleep and imagine that you're there

with me."

Sia - I Go To Sleep

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman

are two separate passions,

not merely different but opposite.

Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation

(a desire that extends to an infinite number of women)

but in the desire for shared sleep

(a desire limited to one woman).
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Hysteria Siberiana

Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana?
Try to imagine this:

You're a farmer, living all alone on the Siberian tundra.

Day after day you plow your fields.
As far as the eye can see, nothing.

To the north, the horizon, to the east, the horizon,
to the south, to the west, more of the same.
Every morning, when the sun rises in the east, you go out to work in your fields.

When it's directly overhead, you take a break for lunch.

When it sinks in the west, you go home to sleep.

And then one day, something inside you dies.

Day after day you watch the sun rise in the east, pass across the sky,

then sink in the west, and something breaks inside you and dies.

You toss your plow aside and, your head completely empty of thought,

begin walking toward the west.

Heading toward a land that lies west of the sun.

Like someone, possessed, you walk on, day after day,

not eating or drinking, until you collapse on the ground and die.
hat's hysteria siberiana.

Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun

We Are Who We Are

Bill: Clark Kent is how Superman views us.

And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent.

He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward.

Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.

Sorta like Beatrix Kiddo and Mrs. Tommy Plimpton.

I'm calling you a killer. A natural born killer.

You always have been, and you always will be.

Moving to El Paso, working in a used record store,

goin' to the movies with Tommy, clipping coupons.

That's you, trying to disguise yourself as a worker bee.

That's you tryin' to blend in with the hive.

But you're not a worker bee. You're a renegade killer bee.

And no matter how much beer you drank or barbecue you ate

or how fat your ass got, nothing in the world would ever change that.

Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)