Jules ˚⋆ཐི༏ཋྀ°༄｡

“When I look back at the past and think of all the time I squandered in error and idleness, lacking the knowledge I needed to live; when I think of how I sinned against my heart and my soul, then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness … Every minute could have been an eternity of happiness! If youth only knew. Now my life will change, now I will be reborn.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“For the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.

We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in.”
― Oliver Sacks

“I'm not at all concerned with the academic status of what I do, because my challenge is my own transformation. That's why, when people tell me ‘you thought this several years ago, and now you think something different’, I answer: ‘do you think I've worked so much, for so many years, to always say the same thing, and not be transformed?’ This transformation of the self by one's own knowledge is, I think, quite close to the aesthetic experience. Why would a painter work, if they're not transformed by their painting?" We alter our own selves in what we do. This isn't necessarily the result of a conscious decision or a sudden revolution; it happens by successive shifts, which, paradoxically, create our sense of loyalty to ourselves.”
― Michel Foucault