“I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.” ― Sara Sheridan, Truth Or Dare Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"I started out with nothing and I still got most of it left." Tom Waits Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor and more unashamed conversation.” - Glenn Close Amen ❤️
" Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote. Language is the essence of being human. We can think, thanks to language, for thought exists only by the grace of words. Our experiences and emotions are molded by language. It is language that allows us to name and know the world. "---- Rob Riemen, Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal
"The lore has not died out of the world, and you will still find people who believe that soup will cure any hurt or illness and is no bad thing to have for the funeral either.” ― John Steinbeck, East of Eden Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“For years we have been taught not to like things. Finally somebody said it was OK to like things. This was a great relief. It was getting hard to go around not liking everything.” ― David Byrne Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.” ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment--where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels--this moment shows us that what is real is sacred” ― Mark Nepo Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"It’s all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever..." -- Jack Kerouac Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“We breathe for the sake of breathing, eat and drink for the sake of eating and drinking, we take shelter for the sake of taking shelter, we study to satisfy our curiosity, we take a walk for the walk. All that's not for the sake of living, it is living. Life is a sincerity.” ― Emmanuel Levinas, Existence and Existents
“I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.” —Werner Herzog Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?” ― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” ― Mark Twain Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"I wanted to be alone, because only alone, lost, silent, on foot, can I recognize things.”—Pier Paolo Pasolini Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world." ~ John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.116, Penguin Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"how it liberates the soul to drink a bottle of good wine daily and sit in the sun." ~ Virginia Woolf Art by Pierre-Auguste-Renoir Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.” ― Joseph Brodsky
"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” ― Vladimir Nabokov Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!