Waynes

“I realized then that we miss so much of life while we are part of it. We fail to see ninety percent of the glories of nature, for to do so would require vision that is simultaneously telescopic and microscopic.”
― Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning

“It influenced my life that I did not find content immediately and easily - - and now I am I because of that.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There is a saying that when a bird in flight gets tired, it will land on any tree”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

“All this talk of oblivion, of wanting nothing and becoming nobody, seems rather contradictory from a Buddhist sense. The Buddha did all this himself and he became so much a nobody that he became famous, the biggest nobody of them all. And he will never disappear, because fame has made him immortal. But I do admire him for his attitude and discipline. He was a good Indian son.”
― Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning