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I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#poets #writers #poets

We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#poets

Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#fate #wonder #destiny

Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#self-discovery #synchronicity #work #destiny

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#wisdom #destiny

Suppose two men at cards with nothing to wager save their lives. Who has not heard such a tale? A turn of the card. The whole universe for such a player has labored clanking to his moment which will tell if he is to die at that man’s hand or that man at his. What more certain validation of a man’s worth could there be? This enhancement of the game to its ultimate state admits no argument concerning the notion of fate. The selection of one man over another is a preference absolute and irrevocable and it is a dull man indeed who could reckon so profound a decision without agency or significance either one. In such games as have for their stake the annihilation of the defeated the decisions are quite clear. This man holding this particular arrangement of cards in his hand is thereby removed from existence. This is the nature of war, whose stake is at once the game and the authority and the justification. Seen so, war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select. War is the ultimate game because war is at last a forcing of the unity of existence. War is god. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#men

I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#knowledge #siddhartha #unity #world #unity

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate one another. ↗

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

#exist #oneness #recreate #together #unity

If for instance the sentiment possessing for the moment the empire of our mind is sorrow, will not the genius sharpen the sorrow and the sorrow purify the genius? Together, will they not be like a cut diamond for which language is only the wax on which they stamp their imprint? I believe that genius, thus awakened, has no need to seek out details, that it scarcely pauses to reflect, that it never thinks of unity: I believe that the details come naturally without search by the poet, that inspiration takes the place of reflection and as for unity, I think there is no unity so perfect as that which results from a heart filled with a single idea...The nature of genius is related to that of instinct; it's operation is both simple and marvelous. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#sorrow #writing #inspirational

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#express #forget #gratitude #highest #live