Christy Porter

“   To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind;    All are not fit with them to stir and toil,    Nor is it discontent to keep the mind    Deep in its fountain, lest it overboil    In one hot throng, where we become the spoil    Of our infection, till too late and long    We may deplore and struggle with the coil,    In wretched interchange of wrong for wrong Midst a contentious world, striving where none are strong.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“When people start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow they’re going to improve, which is a sort of subtle aggression against who they really are.”
― Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness

“She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
― Roman Payne

“When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir