QUOTES

Quotes I collect

Lines I keep coming back to. Click the card to draw another.

As you start to work on the way, the way appears.
Rumi

The whole collection

As you start to work on the way, the way appears.
Rumi
Clarity doesn't come before action. It comes from action.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
African proverb
If one day they really find the formula for all our wantings and caprices…then perhaps man will immediately stop wanting; what's more, perhaps he will certainly stop. Who wants to want according to a little table?
Dostoevsky · Notes from Underground
There was, it would seem, nothing extraordinary in what she had said, but what unutterable meaning there was in every sound of her words, in every movement of her lips, eyes, and hands as she said it! There was an appeal for forgiveness; there was trust in him and a caress, a tender and timid caress, and promise and hope and love for him, in which he could not but believe and which suffocated him with happiness.
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina
These two men were so akin and intimate with one another that the slightest movement, the tone of voice, told them more than could be said in words.
Leo Tolstoy · Anna Karenina
I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.
Lucien Carr
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Rumi
Don't let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.
Dostoevsky · The Idiot
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called yesterday and the other is called tomorrow, so today is the right day to love, believe, do and mostly live.
Dalai Lama
Where your fear is, there your task is.
Carl Jung
For what it's worth… it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you've never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life.
Sylvia Plath
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde
All of the best things in life require a degree of embarrassment, or at least the possibility of it. Dancing, singing, sharing art, cooking food, falling in love, holding hands; there is risk in it all. You could burn dinner or sing off key; no act of self expression or love is exempt from danger. Embarrassment is scary because rejection is scary, failing is scary, judgment is scary and we have learned to equate all of these experiences to something bad. Because of this, we often find ourselves feigning apathy to avoid embarrassment: what you don't care about can't hurt you, right?
jonasluskey · after Katie Bird's "Embarrassment Has Good Bones"
People Aren't Homes Child, why did no one ever teach you that you cannot turn people into homes? People are rivers, ever changing, ever flowing. They will disappear with everything you put inside them. Still, your home does have a heartbeat. But it isn't one locked in anyone else's chest. Just look inside your own.
Nikita Gill
There is no such thing as a perfect decision. All decisions have trade-offs.