“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa” (via loveage-moondream)
Tag: quotes
I feel full of the mystery of life at the moment.
(Odd how things sometimes seem tinkling and empty and then full, full.)
An overwhelming sensation that almost makes me speechless.
Iris Murdoch, from a letter to Wallace Robson written c. December 1951 (via violentwavesofemotion)
You imagine that without cause there can be no happiness. To me dependence on anything for happiness is utter misery.
SRI NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ
(via purplebuddhaquotes)
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I am very cruel to myself. I demand perfection, but I am very lazy. I want to become great, but I fear the result of becoming misunderstood. I desire to be loved, but I panic at the thought of becoming rejected. I yearn to heal, but I long for the things that destroy me in the end.
It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when you’re laughing and smiling and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself.
is it worse if we invented
sadness or if it was
here all along
waiting for the earth to
grow a creature
capable of detecting it
Kimmy Walters, “Build A Little Shrine For The Dead,” from Killer (via petrichour)
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