music, books, love and kindness

Books and cats and music...all can be so healing.

As I slowly start to feel less pain over things that have been happening for a while now and that I long should have gotten past and as I also accept that I cannot change the heartbreaking parts of life, I find myself beginning to become interested (really interested) in things like books again. And I cannot help but think of this wonderful quote from T.H. White's The Once and Future King:

“The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”