quotes
Ocean Vuong in his Oprah interview
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath
"how necessary sundays have become. I reach for them like the sleeping lovers on the other side of my earth of my mattress"
- Darnell Lamont Walker
The main thing is that you stop telling lies to yourself. The one who lies to himself and believes his own lies comes to a point where he can distinguish no truth either within himself or around him, and thus enters into a state of disrespect towards himself and others. Respecting no one, he loves no one, and to amuse and divert himself in the
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Window into a wondering
Thich Nhat Hanh’s words in The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching