Daily Bit Of Beauty

'I think now that being free is not being powerful or rich or well regarded or without obligations, but being able to love. To love someone else enough to forget about yourself even for a moment is to be free.'

-from Jeanette Winterson, The Passion


...Everything in life turned into a love relationship as I started to think only in terms of love. I began to do things not because I needed to but because I wanted to. Because I would have loved to. ... I tell myself there is not one thing I have to do, including being alive. I have to choose life from death every second to continue living, and I do so because I love living. When one is choosing life, each breath is sweet, as if the air has fruit juice in it and the clouds are made of cotton candy.