Divya Makhija

“invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
don't swim in the same slough.
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and
stay out of the clutches of mediocrity.

invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
change your tone and shape so often that they can never categorize you.

reinvigorate yourself and
accept what is
but only on the terms that you have invented
and reinvented.

be self-taught.

and reinvent your life because you must;
it is your life and
its history
and the present
belong only to
you.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Pleasures of the Damned

“When you're conscious of what you're permitting to germinate inside you, the weeds in your life will wither away of their own accord.”
― Lawrence Shorter

“Everything bleeds into everything and fiction is just this funny desperate little attempt to staunch the bleeding.”
― Meghan Lamb

“... by treating nature as exterior and inferior to humans we saw no harm to ourselves in polluting the soil, the plants, the air and the water. We did not notice the effect of our pollution on whatever walked over it, ran across it, climbed up it, flew through it, or swam in it.

Now we notice that harming other constituents of our planetary system brings harm to ourselves.”
― Betty Jean Craige, Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot