Words, they breathe.

"What else is a vision or fact of time and the peoples it bears issuing from the mouth of the cosmos, from the round mouth of eternity, in a wide and parti-colored utterance. In the complex weave of this utterance like fabric, in its infinite domestic interstices, the centuries and continents and classes dwell. Each people knows only its own squares in the weave, its wars and instruments and arts, and also the starry sky."
-Annie Dillard

"At night when everyone is silent and everything is still,  I lie in the darkness of my windowless room, the place where they exile me from the community of their heart, and search the unknowing blackness to see if I can find my way home. I tell myself stories, write poems, record my dreams. In my journal I write---I belong to this place of words. This is my way home. This dark, bone black inner cave where I am making a world for myself."
-bell hooks

"The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles---preferably of his own making---in order to triumph. A hero without a flaw is of no interest to an audience or to the universe..."
-Garth Stein

"You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within; 

And to the leading Love-throb in the Heart

Thro' all my Being, thro' my pulses beat;

You lie in all my many Thoughts, like Light" ...

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are.. than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise." 
-Henry David Thoreau

“The Crisis of the sorrow of so many years is all that tires me.” 
-Emily Dickinson

"Our thoughts are clay, they are moulded with the changes of the days;--when we are resting they are good; under fire, they are dead. Fields of craters within and without."
-Erich Maria Remarque

"We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth."
-Elie Wiesel

"Within each of us there is a silence -A silence as vast as the universe.We are afraid of it...and we long for it."
 -Ernest Hemingway

"Within each of us there is a silence - 

A silence as vast as the universe. 

We are afraid of it...and we long for it." 

-Gunilla Norris

“If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!” 

-Shel Silverstein

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

-Pablo Neruda

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.” 

-Plato

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which

grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”

-E.E. Cummings

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” 

-Pablo Neruda

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
-Albert Einstein

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

-J.R.R. Tolkien

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
-Marilyn Monroe

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
-Maya Angelou

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
-Mahatma Gandhi

"The enlightened man is the greatest stranger in the world; he does not seem to belong to anybody. No organization confines him, no community, no society, no nation."
-Osho


"As humans, we crave wilderness and open spaces. We regularly seek out aspen groves, desert oases, ocean shores, mountain lakes. But we can’t be camped by a turquoise lagoon forever. At some point, we pick up our feet and trudge back to our lives, hoping to keep those times of nature and calm with us."
-Celeste Keele

"Say you have seen something. You have seen an ordinary bit of what is real, the infinite fabric of time that eternity shoots through, and time's soft-skinned people working and dying under slowly shifting stars. Then what?"
-Annie Dillard