“I learned words, I learned words; but half of them died from lack of exercise. And the ones I use often look at me with a look that whispers, Liar.”— Norman MacCaig
(Source: purplebuddhaquotes, via purplebuddhaquotes)
“What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.”— Epictetus, Discourses
(Source: philosophybits)
“Your mind is not a cage. It’s a garden. And it requires cultivating.”—
Libba Bray
(Source: purplebuddhaquotes, via purplebuddhaquotes)
“Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow - whether there is a market for it or not! The kick of creation is the act of creating, not anything that happens afterward. I would tell all of you watching this screen: Before you go to bed, write a four line poem. Make it as good as you can. Don’t show it to anybody. Put it where nobody will find it. And you will discover that you have your reward.”— Kurt Vonnegut
(Source: purplebuddhaquotes, via purplebuddhaquotes)
“I don’t think you ever really fall out of love with someone. I think when you fall in love, like true love, it’s love for life. All the rest is just experience and delusions.”— J.A. Redmerski
(Source: purplebuddhaquotes)
“In the end there doesn’t have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”— Robert Brault
(Source: purplebuddhaquotes)
“Sometimes the night wakes up in the middle of me and I can do nothing but become the moon.”— Nayirrah Waheed
(Source: purplebuddhaquotes)
“The real seeker of truth never seeks truth. On the contrary, he tries to clean himself of all that is untrue, inauthentic, insincere–and when his heart is ready, purified, the guest comes. You cannot find the guest, you cannot go after him. He comes to you; you just have to be prepared. You have to be in a right attitude.”— Osho
(Source: lazyyogi, via noldarling)
“I gave you things I wasn’t sure I even had.”—
Miranda July
(Source: purplebuddhaquotes, via noldarling)
“All I want is silence, for myself and for the selves I used to be.”— Alejandra Pizarnik, from ‘Extracting the Stone of Madness’, Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962-1972 (trans. Yvette Siegert)
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