Favorite Quotations
"I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger than reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls." ~Anais Nin"
The woman who needs to create works of art is born with a kind of psychic tension in her which drives her unmercifully to find a way to balance, to make herself whole. Every human being has this need: in the artist it is mandatory." ~May Sarton“
The true harvest of my life is intangible – a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched” ~Henry David ...Thoreau"
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." ~Jung"
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world" ~Albert Einstein "Good poetry makes the universe reveal its secret" ~ Hafiz"
Love and compassion are necessities, notluxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive." ~Dalai Lama"
The poet makes himself a seer by a long, prodigious, and rationaldisordering of all the senses. Every form of love, of suffering, ofmadness; he searches himself, he consumes all the poisons in him, and keeps only their quintessences." ~Rimbaud"
I want to be with those that know secret things, or else alone" ~Rilke"
The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved; the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." ~Jack Kerouac"
The great beauty of my life is that I live out what others only dream about, talk about, or analyze. I want to go on living the uncensored dream, the free unconscious" ~Anais Nin"
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package" ~John Ruskin"
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say" ~Anaïs Nin"
Let the woman lose her small, personal fears. Let her dare to offer her creation, and if necessary, suffer the consequences. Every artist has taken that risk" ~Anais Nin“
Those who danced were thought insane by those who couldn’t hear the music” ~Angela Monet
"And there came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom" ~Anais Nin"
Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we?" ~Audra Foveo-Alba"
The woman who loves always transcends the man she loves, because life is greater than fate. Her devotion wants to be immeasurable; that is her happiness." ~Rilke"
I have great faith in all things not yet spoken" ~Rilke“
Talk about choices does not apply to me~ While intelligence considers options, I am somewhere lost in the wind” ~Rumi"
Those who are burned into the fire of love are buried into the heart of God..." ~Sufi Mystic"
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote" ~Yevgeny Yevtushenko"
If I could wake completely, I would say without speaking why I'm ashamed of using words" ~Rumi“
He who is born in imagination discovers the latent forces of Nature. . . Besides the stars that are established, there is yet another- Imagination- that begets a new star and a new heaven.” ~Paracelsus"
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking" ~Gibran"
Let us speak silently like spirits and avoid talkers who use words in vain" ~Rumi“
She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases~ the inner meanings known only to her” ~Rumi"
Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love." ~Gibran"
Mysteries are not to be solved. The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why." ~Rumi"
A lover's food is the love of bread, not the bread. No one who really loves, loves existence. Lovers have nothing to do with existence." ~Rumi"
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery" ~Francis Bacon"
The way you make love is the way God will be with you" ~Rumi"
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." ~Charles Bukowski“
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexity or pride~ I love you because I know no other way” ~Pablo Neruda"
A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does~ A lover wants only to be in love's presence~ The ocean who's depth can never be known" ~Rumi"
I will make my soul an envelope for your soul~ And my heart a residence for your beauty~ And my breast a grave for your sorrows~ I shall love you" ~Gibran‘'
Worry looks around, sorry looks back, Faith looks up.”"From the beginning, the soul of you and I has been one" ~RumiSee More
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Thanks Leila for your sweet message.Whatever you are, I am also on the same wavelength.So lets exchange our poems, writings,stories,etc.My email id::: manoharbhatia2@gmail.com
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Manohar Bhatia....
