Nothin’s what it seems, drow. Nothin’! Ye try to follow what ye know, ye know? But then ye find that ye know not what you thought ye knowed! Thought a dog’d be tastin’ good - looked good enough - but now me belly’s cursing me every move!

— Bruenor Battlehammer to Drizzt Do’Urden (via randomoligy)

Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, from Nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Journals

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Journals

It’s no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You’ve got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them.

— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

JACK:   So all this time you didn’t want me to rub off on him, you wanted him [referring to Eric] to rub off on me.
FEENY:   I wanted both, Jack. You see, it’s not enough to leave school and just desire to succeed in this cold, cruel world. ‘Cause then you’d simply become a part of it. You must also have the desire to change it. And to change it, you need your fine mind and his good heart.
Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and a great song will arise in your heart. And it will be a song of awareness, it will be a song of meditation. It will be a song of a lone bird calling in the distance— not calling to somebody in particular, but just calling because the heart is full and wants to call, because the cloud is full and wants to rain, because the flower is full and the petals open and the fragrance is released…unaddressed. Let your aloneness become a dance.

— Osho, Meditation: the First and Last Freedom.