I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
We are never trapped unless we choose to be.
Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as 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.
I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits
I want to love you wildly. I don’t want words, but inarticulate cries, meaningless, from the bottom of my most primitive being, that flow from my belly like honey. A piercing joy, that leaves me empty, conquered, silenced.
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.
Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
I love the abstract, delicate, profound, vague, voluptuously wordless sensation of living ecstatically.
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world.
You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.
My life is not possible to tell. I change every day, change my patterns, my concepts, my interpretations. I am a series of moods and sensations. I play a thousand roles. I weep when I find others play them for me. My real self is unknown. My work is merely an essence of this vast and deep adventure.
Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves.
We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.
it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.
We have been poisoned by fairy tales.
What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.
I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.
I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.
To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.
Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.
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