not lost but trying to be found

Roman Stoicism, Philosophy, & Literature Quotes. Oh, and the occassional personal rant.

[overclassy]

[quotes-for-every-occasion]

not takin it for granted

[bloombound]

[raintosun]

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No man was ever wise by chance.

Seneca

[bitesizedpoetry]

Sylvia Plath, aged 29, after discovering her husband's affair, in a letter to Ruth Tiffany Barnhouse Beuscher, her former psychiatrist (dated Friday, 20 July 1962)

[mournfulroses]

María Casares, from a letter to Albert Camus, featured in Correspondance, 1944-1959

[poetryforall]

[thereadmind]

[quotes-for-every-occasion]

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ​― James Baldwin

[quotefeeling]

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”

— Lao Tzu

[qvotext]

When you come back, you will not be you. And I may not be I.

E.M. Forster

[quotefeeling]

“To love and lose and still be kind.”

— Warsan Shire

[quotes-for-every-occasion]

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

- Rumi

[bhxdraa]

The intimacy of being understood.

[thoughtkick]

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.”

— Vincent van Gogh

[perfeqt]

“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.”

— Nikita Gill

[philosophybits]

“Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.”

— Michel de Montaigne, Essais