“The country morning exists; the city morning promises. The former makes one live; the latter makes one think. And I’m doomed always to feel, like the world’s great damned men, that it’s better to think than to live.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. To justify that, the conduct from which it is desired to deter him must be calculated to produce evil to someone else. The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
Source: On Liberty
“Je suis vide, je ne ressens rien, juste du vide. Avoir le cœur brisé me manque. Être triste me manque.”
Source: C'est comme ça que je disparais
“Should you be gone, I think of others not,
my mind in, like a wife, your spot,
when you’re here, I feel you close,
since one we are, elan of, you just give me dose;
when we are together, the world is for us,
each-other to gaze at, true rapture feeling, plus;
when we’re gone, the world will still be here,
love there will still be, yet others with, that’s clear…”
Source: На чист Български...: Pristine Bulgarian sayings...
“Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words. Words can be thrown together. It is their order and when they catch you - their time.”
Source: A Map to the Door of No Return
“Feeling feels feeling, not words.”
“You know, I could live here, it is like a dream, a déjà vu. It’s like I’ve lived here before. There is a feeling in me that everything that has happened in my life, was to bring me here now, to experience this bliss”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“In practical terms, the ego-shadow split is alleviated through the development of the feeling function, for it is feeling that determines the value of the opposites involved in any conflict situation.”
Source: The Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka
“Her mind was a mess
Trying to find it's way through unwavering feelings
What could she have done
So many faces but none as appealing as his
Stuck in a place where his face is imprinted in her memory, his scent captured in her heart of memories and all this time his unaware of a woman madly insanely crazy for him”
“Wonder is not an exterior destination to arrive at, like a mountaintop view, or a once in a lifetime concert. Those experiences may bring that feeling. But wonder is an internal filter through which we learn to look at life.
This filter is always there, but it is most easily accessible to us in new situations, when we don't have a narrative about what's happening yet. If we want to feel the rapturous experience of being alive more often, then removing the filter of familiarity is the practice we most need to adopt.”
Source: Say Yes: Discover the Surprising Life Beyond the Death of a Dream