#so

You ever hear a dog cry, Steve? You know, howling so loud it's almost unbearable?' He nodded. 'I reckon they howl like that because they're so hungry it hurts, and that's what I feel in me every day of my life. I'm so hungry to be somethin' - to be somebody. You hear me?' He did. 'I'm not lyin' down ever. Not for you. Not for anyone.' I ended it. 'I'm hungry, Steve.' Sometimes I think they're the best words I've ever said. 'I'm hungry. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#dog #howl #hungry #life

A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth. ↗

— Anthon St. Maarten

#consciousness-mind-brain #ego #false-belief #intuition #intuitive

We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we enter it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period. (pg. 65) ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#life

Neither a fixed abode nor a form that is thine alone nor any function peculiar to thyself have we given thee, Adam, to the end that according to thy longing and according to thy judgement thou mayest have and possess what abode, what form and what functions thou thyself shalt desire. The nature of all other beings is limited and constrained within the bounds of law. Thou shalt have the power to degenerate into the lower forms of life, which are brutish. Thou shalt have the power, out of thy soul's judgement, to be born into the higher forms, which are divine." 25) ↗

— pico della mirandola Pico

#life

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits. ↗

— Lois Lenski

#lesson-for-life #life

Eagerly wanted to prove something is one sign of lack of self-dependence. ↗

— Toba Beta

#self-dependence #wanted-to-prove-something #life

It is when we are confronted with...poignant reminders of mortality that we become most aware of the strangeness and wonder of our brief life on Earth. ↗

— Kathleen Basford

#life

That vice has often proved an emancipator of the mind, is one of the most humiliating, but, at the same time, one of the most unquestionable facts in history. ↗

— W.E.H. Lecky

#politics #wisdom #life

When people grow old and look back on their lives, they don't regret what they did, they regret what they didn't do. ↗

— Joan Caraganis Jakobson

#life

...I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me." - Elizabeth Frankenstein ↗

— Mary Shelley

#life