Defne > Defne's Quotes

“A person's looking for a simple truth to live by, there it is. CHOICE. To refuse to passively accept what we've been handed by nature or society, but to choose for ourselves. CHOICE. That's the difference between emptiness and substance, between a life actually lived and a wimpy shadow cast on an office wall.”
― Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

“A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow”
― Hannah Arendt

“the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted.”
― Lucy Maud Montgomery

“Would you like to save the world from the degradation and destruction it seems destined for? Then step away from shallow mass movements and quietly go to work on your own self-awareness. If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
― Lao Tzu

“Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina, Anna Karenina" when asked the three best novels of all time.”
― William Faulkner

“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.”
― William Faulkner

“I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand,
that Joplin had the last drunken throat,
that Morrison had the last enlightened mind.”
― Patti Smith

“Wasn't that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“Geography is destiny.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone