1:
We are fragile, vulnerable, and impermanent in this world—but that’s what makes us beautiful. Our joy is to know and rejoice in the beauty of each other and every fragile thing.
2:
Stars and blossoming fruit trees: Utter permanence and extreme fragility give an equal sense of eternity. The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence.
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
3:
Amazement
Innumerable and boundless sustances of the Earth:
Scent of thyme, hue of fir, white frost, dances of cranes.
And everything simultaneous. And probably eternal.
Unseen, unheard, yet it was.
Unexpressed by strings or tongues, yet it will be.
Raspberry ice cream, we melt in the sky.
— Czeslaw Milosz, New and Collected Poems
4:
My joy is more full because of the success of my brethren.