#persona

You know, for myself, my personal journey has been a very fortunate one and I would say to people it's like the stars lined up and the skies opened up and the sun shined and I met the right people - was at the right time. And, most importantly, you know I love what I do. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#fortunate #i #i do #i love #importantly

At that moment Mr. Clifford, quite unconscious that he and his most personal feelings and aspirations were subjects of discussion, was turning from the main road into the lower road. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#clifford #discussion #feelings #his #into

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#about #abstraction #affair #also #cause

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#incredibly #launching #like #me #music

Who would you impress if the world was blind? ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#life-purpose #outlook #persona #perspective #life

There are times when I'm alone and I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my thoughts and my small acts of creation and my ability to go or do whatever I want to go or do. I am myself, and that is the point. Pairing is a social construction. It is by no means necessary for everyone to do it. Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go. ↗

— David Levithan

#life

Naturally I have zero friends. I've built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself. Who could like someone like that? They all keep an eye on me, but I'm just glad they didn't bother me. They might hate me, or even afraid of me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#personal #life

The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life. I may list things that might be described as my accomplishments in these few pages, but they are only shadows of the larger truth, fragments separated from the whole cycle of becoming. And if I can tell an old-time story now about a man who is walking about, waudjoset ndatlokugan, a forest lodge man, alesakamigwi udlagwedewugan, it is because I spent many years walking about myself, listening to voices that came not just from the people but from animals and trees and stones. ↗

— Joseph Bruchac

#path #patience #personal-mythmaking #story #time

If you are HUMAN, then the limit of what you can do, what you learn, what you can experience HAS NOT YET BEEN REACHED. ↗

— Silvia Hartmann

#human-nature #humankind #limit #personal-development #experience

...but thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#inspirational #personal-growth #beauty