return to his source

“As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite.” - James Allen Words that we have collected, said by people far wiser than us. We hope you find some inspiration and solace in them, too.

[oceanoftheinfinite]

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

[freshgypsy]

I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.

Don Cheadle

[oceanoftheinfinite]

I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.

Frida Kahlo

[oceanoftheinfinite]

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

Maya Angelou

[oceanoftheinfinite]

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

Mark Twain

[oceanoftheinfinite]

I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored.

Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent

[oceanoftheinfinite]

Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.

Margaret Thatcher

[oceanoftheinfinite]

"'But I like you.’ He cleared his throat. ‘I like you first and second and third.’"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

[oceanoftheinfinite]

"We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known."

Carson McCullers, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

[oceanoftheinfinite]

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love’s not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time…

Sylvia Plath

[oceanoftheinfinite]

The morning breezes have secrets to tell; don’t go back to sleep.

Rumi

[oceanoftheinfinite]

"I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art."

Ernst Fischer

[oceanoftheinfinite]

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Henri Matisse

[lunaoki]

(exists no miracle mightier than this: to feel)

e.e. cummings

[concocted]

“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

Martin Luther King Jr. (via concocted)

[oceanoftheinfinite]

“I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku.”

Jarod Kintz, I Want

[35mmcoffee-deactivated20130620]

My heart wants roots. My mind wants wings. I cannot bear Their bickerings.

E. Y. Harburg