Self Cultivation Quotes

“There is a certain class of unbelievers who sometimes ask me such questions as, if I think that I can live on vegetable food alone; and to strike at the root of the matter at once,—for the root is faith,—I am accustomed to answer such, that I can live on board nails.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The magic of your larger blooming life has been trying to reach you -- pouring through cracks, seeping up through the ground around you. It has no aim, save one: to save you; to bring back the moist oasis of midnight wine and pillow talk to that dry desert you've become.”
― Frank LaRue Owen, The School of Soft Attention

“In order to have a flexible mindset in a constantly changing, transient reality, your philosophy must be very adaptable to new settings and circumstances. A fixed way of thinking will not allow you to cultivate yourself.”
― Elmar Hussein

“A period of profound depression can trigger a period of hysterical writing. We create our own afflictions; it is only right that we must cure ourselves.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls