“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” …
“Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful positive obsession blunts pain, diverts rage, and engages each of us in the greatest, the most intense of our chosen struggles.” …
“Children in wonder watching the stars, is the aim and the end.” …
“The more a creature’s life is worth, the less of it is alive.” …
Inside the hallmark of a great scientist and a great human being — the ability to hold one’s opinions with firm but unfisted fingers. …
“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized.” …
“The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible. It is living void because all forms come out of it, and whosoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.” …
A synesthetic invitation to dance across the full span of the spectrum within and without. …
“If I said that my love for you was like the spaces between the notes of a wren’s song, would you understand?” …
“Although the dying time, it is also the color time, the time when faith in the steadfastness of Nature is surest… The seeds all have next summer in them, some of them thousands of summers.” …
…and one of the loveliest definitions of what poetry is. …
These biographies are #lifegoals. …
On the precious smallnesses that matter amid the vast and transitory maelstrom of matter. …
“Rejoice, go and remember me.” …
“Love is wise, hatred is foolish.” …
“Nobody would affirm that the tree grows its crown in the image of its root. Between above and below can be no mirrored reflection.” …
“There are times in the experience of almost every community… when… the appointed leaders… exert their powers of mind to complicate, mystify, entangle and obscure the simple truth… to mislead the popular mind, and to corrupt the public heart, — then the humblest may stand forth… opposing… the torrent of evil.” …
“No one can feel free from danger and destruction until the many torn threads of civilization are bound together again… There can be a happy world… when men create a strong bond towards one another, a bond unbreakable by a studied prejudice or a passing circumstance.” …
Consolation for the waves of sorry from the waves of the sea. …
“A total eclipse wreaks havoc on your sense of self, on rational individuality.” …
Life is chock full of both good and bad experiences. But, when times are hard, it’s, unfortunately, a natural reaction to revert into yourself as you take on the blows that life has dealt you. However, with that said, there is one simple truth that I’ve tried to stand by over the years. Instead of […] …
“It is very important to be in love with life… Life is very fragile and always elusive. As soon as we think we ‘understand,’ there is another mystery. I don’t understand anything. That is, I think, the key to understand everything.” …
“The world where the owl is endlessly hungry and endlessly on the hunt is the world in which I live too. There is only one world.” …
“There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up. When you can no longer see, you can at least still know.” …
“This is a love story. You know. How two people, joined together, become themselves.” …