"You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion"

-- Rumi

#Lovers Quotes #Emotion Quotes #Feels Quotes

“To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.”

Source : Sissela Bok (2011). “Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation”, p.40, Vintage
“Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die.”
“The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.”
“It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.”
“Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.”
“O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!”

Source : Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.98, Courier Corporation
“I went to high school in the 1970s and was a real daydreamer and not the best student.”

Source : "John Benjamin Hickey on 'Manhattan's' Modern Moment, 'Big C' and 'Pitch Perfect'". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 27, 2014.
“There are two days in the year that we can not do anything, yesterday and tomorrow”

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