#low

Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#imagination #dreams

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#alone #even #genders #groups #ignorance

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. ↗

— Jane Austen

#self-actualization #names

Then she marched to the pillows and beat them mercilessly until they lay puffed out like obedient clouds. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#clouds #pillow #obedience

I never see that prettiest thing- A cherry bough gone white with Spring- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#flowering #suicide #trees #gay

She's all over us like maggots on garbage, just because I interfered with one pickpocket yesterday. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#followed #harassment #metaphor #metaphor

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#self-indulgence #wallowing #melancholy

The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#mourning

It seems to me that since I've had children, I've grown richer and deeper. They may have slowed down my writing for a while, but when I did write, I had more of a self to speak from. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#deeper #did #down #grown #had

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you. ↗

— Esther Hicks

#abraham-hicks #allow #control-freaks #control-issues #controlling