Adrianne Lenker Quotes

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

A thought experiment courtesy of the Stoics. If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

Everything that we love will, at some point, be taken away from us. If I think about everyone I love eventually being taken away from me by death, or simply by getting lost from each other in the world, it makes me value them much more now. And I'm much less likely to be indifferent. For me, indifference is the end of life.

What I felt is the same kind of love I felt between Waylon and his audience. And that's what I miss.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone.

When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.

When you love something, it never goes away.

You don't miss what you never had.

Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'

I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact, I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy, then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.

By relinquishing your obsession with the past and your fantasies about the future, you can tap into the power of the present and feel the force of love that resides inside of you.

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Whenever it rains you will think of her.

Nothing makes us love something more than the loss of it.

Nothing you love is lost. Not really. Things, people—they always go away, sooner or later. You can’t hold them, any more than you can hold moonlight. But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours. The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.