"a rose-flower is going to be fragile. it is not a stone. it is okay to be a rose flower and not a stone."
Osho
“For your hair was full of roses, and my flesh was full of thorns.”
Aleister Crowley, La Gitana
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy
"My heart was too big for my body so i let it go and most days this world has thinned me to where i am just another cloud forgetting another flock of swans but believe me when i tell you my soul has squeezed into narrow spaces."
Anis Mojgani, Come Closer
"I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."
Orhan Pamuk
"Alice: how long is forever?
White rabbit: sometimes, just one second."
Lewis Carrol
“I would like to paint the way a bird sings.”
Claude Monet
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. it puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
Henry Rollins
"My heart was a hysterical, unreliable organ."
Vladimir Nabokov
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
Ernest Hemingway