in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
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Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.
Everything we do is either
an act of love or a cry for help.
People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.
Then I think of all the tricks, all the minutes all the hours and days and weeks and months and years waiting for me. All of it without them. And I can't breathe then, like someone's stepping on my heart, Laila. So weak I just want to collapse somewhere.
Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the bastard time.
'Tis very warm weather when one's in bed.
The battle is in our hands. And we can answer with creative nonviolence the call to higher ground to which the new directions of our struggle summons us. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. But we must keep going.
I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
I am the center of my universe, the center of the universe, and in my supreme anguish I cry with Michelet, Mon moi, ils m'arrachent mon moi! What is a man profited if he shall gain the world and lose his own soul?