"All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."

-Socrates

"Anxiety is love's greatest killer.  It makes one feel as you might when a drowning man holds unto you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

-Anaïs Nin as quoted in French Writers of the Past 2000) by Carol A. Dingle, p. 126

"Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you. It was but yesterday we met in a dream. You have sung to me in my aloneness, and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky. But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over, and it is no longer dawn. The noontide is upon us and our half waking has turned to fuller day, and we must part. ( Read more... )

Behind the clouds, the sky is always blue.
- Norwegian proverb

"All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life -- where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it."

It Chooses You
Miranda July

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

~ Eartha Kitt

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“Go be that starving Artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take ( Read more... )

"The earth is not my home, I'm just passing by."
- Tom Waits

"There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to ( Read more... )

First, request. Does anyone know of any quotes similar to, "It doesn't matter what path you follow as long as it is your own." ? I'd love some. :)

"Don't confuse your path with your destination. Just because it's stormy now, doesn't mean you aren't headed for sunshine." -Unknown

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off ( Read more... )

As he leans in again, nearly a year after his first attempt, I have reservations, but not the same ones I'd had then ( Read more... )