“Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.” — Thomas Jefferson “I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.” — Emily Brontë “Doubting charms me not less than […]

“How pleasant it is to spend an evening this way! I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than a book!- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library” — Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice […]

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.” — Pearl Cleage (via visualcomplex) “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya […]

“This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.” — Heraclitus (535 BCE – 475 BCE)   “The divine will exists and directs the […]

“Persons with any weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits…” — Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy “»To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. For the eye is fastened on the […]