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  • #1
    Ai Yazawa
    “I am pissed off at your insensitive inability to understand why I'm pissed off in the first place.”
    Ai Yazawa
    tags: nana

  • #2
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
    Rumi

  • #3
    “A bird doesn't sing because he has an answer-he sings because he has a song.”
    Joan Walsh Anglund, A Cup of Sun: A Book of Poems

  • #4
    Henry Van Dyke
    “The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.”
    Henry van Dyke

  • #5
    William Blake
    “How can the bird that is born for joy
    Sit in a cage and sing?
    How can a child, when fears annoy,
    But droop his tender wing,
    And forget his youthful spring?”
    William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience

  • #6
    John Muir
    “The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love.”
    John Muir

  • #7
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • #8
    Maya Angelou
    “The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
    of things unknown, but longed for still,
    and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
    for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
    Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • #9
    “Do not stand at my grave and weep;
    I am not there. I do not sleep.
    I am a thousand winds that blow.
    I am the diamond glints on snow.
    I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
    I am the gentle autumn rain.
    When you awaken in the morning’s hush
    I am the swift uplifting rush
    Of quiet birds in circled flight.
    I am the soft stars that shine at night.
    Do not stand at my grave and cry;
    I am not there. I did not die.”
    Mary Elizabeth Frye

  • #10
    Lang Leav
    “Before I fell
    in love with words,
    with setting skies
    and singing birds—
    it was you I fell
    in love with first.”
    Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure

  • #11
    Sharon Creech
    “You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.”
    Sharon Creech, Walk Two Moons

  • #12
    Haruki Murakami
    “I'm not so weird to me.”
    Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  • #13
    Alejandro Jodorowsky
    “Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.”
    Alejandro Jodorowsky

  • #14
    Harun Yahya
    “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.”
    Harun Yahya

  • #15
    Kurt Cobain
    “Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.”
    Kurt Cobain

  • #16
    Ocean Vuong
    “I am writing because they told me to never start a sentence with because. But I wasn't trying to make a sentence—I was trying to break free. Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”
    Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

  • #17
    Edward Hirsch
    “I am a tiny seashell
    that has secretly drifted ashore
    and carries the sound of the ocean
    surging through its body.”
    Edward Hirsch

  • #18
    William  James
    “We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
    William James

  • #19
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    “My soul is full of longing
    for the secret of the sea,
    and the heart of the great ocean
    sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    tags: sea

  • #20
    Cornelia Funke
    “The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
    Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

  • #21
    Rabindranath Tagore
    “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”
    Rabindranath Tagore

  • #22
    Christopher Paolini
    “The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can't.”
    Christopher Paolini, Eragon

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Hermann Hesse
    “We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
    Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

  • #25
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #26
    Virginia Woolf
    “How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
    Virginia Woolf, The Waves

  • #27
    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    Lord Byron

  • #28
    Patrick Rothfuss
    “There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
    Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

  • #29
    Jeffrey McDaniel
    “Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,
    like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.”
    Jeffrey McDaniel

  • #30
    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    Terry Pratchett, Sourcery



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