Cynthia Parrish > Cynthia's Quotes

“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell...say hello for me...”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“There are no boundries between good and evil where love is concerned.”
― James O'Barr

“Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you.
The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Around, around the sun we go:
The moon goes round the earth.
We do not die of death:
We die of vertigo.”
― Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems, 1917-1982

“Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan.... ”
― William Wordsworth

“To our indigenous ancestors, and to the many aboriginal peoples who still hold fast to their oral traditions, language is less a human possession than it is a property of the animate earth itself, an expressive, telluric power in which we, along with the coyotes and the crickets, all participate. Each creature enacts this expressive magic in its own manner, the honeybee with its waggle dance no less than a bellicose, harrumphing sea lion.

Nor is this power restricted solely to animals. The whispered hush of the uncut grasses at dawn, the plaintive moan of trunks rubbing against one another in the deep woods, or the laughter of birch leaves as the wind gusts through their branches all bear a thicket of many-layered meanings for those who listen carefully. In the Pacific Northwest I met a man who had schooled himself in the speech of needled evergreens; on a breezy day you could drive him, blindfolded, to any patch of coastal forest and place him, still blind, beneath a particular tree -- after a few moments he would tell you, by listening, just what species of pine or spruce or fir stood above him (whether he stood beneath a Douglas fir or a grand fir, a Sitka spruce or a western red cedar). His ears were attuned, he said, to the different dialects of the trees.”
― David Abram, Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
― Rumi

“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
― Rumi

“Love is simply creation's greatest joy.”
― Hafez

“Fear not to follow with pious feet the corpse of Hafiz, for though he was drowned in the ocean of sin, he may find a place in paradise.”
― hafez, The Divan

“He was so slim, his heart was visible”
― Hafez, The nightingales are drunk

“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
― Helen Keller, The Story of My Life

“Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.”
― Helen Keller

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
― Helen Keller, The Open Door

“Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.”
― Helen Keller

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

“Dying to your own attachments is a beautiful death.
Because this death release you into real life.
You have to die as a seed to live as a tree.”
― Mooji

“If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― Robert Fulghum, True Love

“You who are the Source of all Light in this world, whose rays illuminate the Earth, enlighten also our hearts and minds, so that we too can do your work.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Close your eyes and imagine the best version of you possible. That’s who you really are, let go of any part of you that doesn’t believe it.”
― C. Assaad

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
― Rumi

“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
― Rumi

“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.”
― Eckhart Tolle