In a strange way we were free. We’d reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose.
If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.
Colors are what trick the mind and our imaginations into buying things.
Isn't it strange how wise counsel can cool the hottest head? He made sense but my heart screamed protest.
We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.
A bird that fears falling off of a tree branch is ignorant of its gifts.
The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
Key the mind, and set the soul free.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...