Herman Melville
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ― Herman Melville
Category: Novelist
Henry Miller
No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance. ― Henry Miller
Ernest Hemingway
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will… Continue reading Ernest Hemingway
Shaun Hick
This is for you, for your breath, whose absence would lessen a greater world. ― Shaun Hick
C. JoyBell C.Z
People wait around too long for love. I’m happy with all of my lusts! ― C. JoyBell C.
David Levithan
Insight, n.: How telling that there isn’t anything called “outsight,” as if language itself knows the direction that wisdom must come from. — David Levithan
Octavia Butler
In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. ― Octavia Butler
E.L. Doctorow
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. — E.L. Doctorow
Murasaki Shikibu
Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind. — Murasaki Shikibu
Ursula K. Le Guin
We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. — Ursula K. Le Guin
The Vale of Soul-Making 