Omri Navot > Quotes

“You are a beautiful girl, a human being capable of feeling, loving, and creating. One day, you will be a beautiful woman. Then, you'll pass into another life. You may not understand in full the magnificent splendor of that cycle, but if you ever do even for a moment, and if you can love yourself as you are, then you'll have learned everything there is to learn in this world, in your world, and all worlds.”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live

“That's how it is. The really wonderful things, they don't last.”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live

“Things like bodies do more than just hold souls. They speak, they play, they dance and draw. We create and live. And none of that may matter when we're gone, but it sure does now while we're here.”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live

“I know. But I long for it to stay still. There is too much motion in this world. Everything changes constantly.”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live

“Your body is a vessel that takes you on a journey. It is an instrument to be used for a purpose. It is an apparatus that makes your essence real.”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live

“And I marvel at how such thorough happiness and deep sadness can live side by side in the same person, only hours apart.”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live

“Looking around at the children I feel as though I understand them more than they understand themselves. I see the characters under their skins and the motives behind their actions. It's so easy now to look at others and know them, to see the truth behind each tiny moment. Then why is it so difficult to know myself in the same way?”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live

“It's about stepping out and seeing yourself from outside. You can't ever understand yourself and what's around you unless you can see it all from far away. That's called perspective. Without it, you might as well be blind.”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live

“I want to know softness too.”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live

“Life is incredibly, undeniably serious. And it's incredibly, undeniably silly, too. It all depends on which way you'd like to have it.”
― Omri Navot

“This world is too hard for me. Sometimes, I feel myself melting into the soft world without even noticing it. I don't belong here.”
― Omri Navot, Where Spirits Live