If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
— Henry Miller
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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
— Marcel Proust
“Don’t eat anything your Great-Grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” — Michael Pollan
“I strode toward Mr. Coffee with lust in my eyes. We’d had a thing for quite some time now, Mr. Coffee and I…” — Darynda Jones
“Be still and silent. Listen. The answers are inside.” — D.M. Pratt
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I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I need right now: More words dedicated to people who will never dedicate a single thing to me.
— Thought Catalog
“One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The Earth is in us.” — Ben Okri
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I said never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The Sun doesn’t apologize for being the Sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are.
— Iain S. Thomas
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What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
— John Ruskin
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of amazement - some good sweet empathic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness.” — Mary Oliver
“Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” — Obi-Won Kenobi
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Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.
— Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters
“He went to her head like a shot of whiskey but tasted a whole lot better. He sent the same fire curling into the pit of her belly with none of the bitter acid on her tongue. Instead, he was smooth and rich and sweet like fine chocolate, and for once in her life, Abby didn’t worry about the treat going straight to her thighs. She rather hoped he would.” — Christine Warren
