Xavier Saer · 299 pages
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“The battlefield of owning your dreams is won the moment you decide to conquer your fears.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“Whatever path you chose, make sure it has a heart.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“The biggest blessings are often disguised in the shape of tears.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“We’re not afraid of flying; only afraid of the altitude we might reach.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“Watch what you're thinking and you might just find what comes into your life.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“The boat has become supreme isolation, chosen isolation, holding myself apart from the world, which I only dimly understand anyway. I can sit on the aft deck and never be surprised by anything again- no phone will ever ring, no one will knock that I haven't seen coming for a quarter mile. that I can go to sleep any night and wake up having broken loose- a failed knot, a line frayed, the anchor dragged- that I can drift out of sight of land makes a twisted sense, in line with my internal weather. When everything has proven tenuous one can either move toward permanence or toward impermanence. The boat's sublimely impermanent. Some mornings the fog's so thick that I exist only in a tight globe of clearing, beyond which is all foghorn and unknown.”
― Nick Flynn, quote from Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
“Her joy with him was like nothing she had ever experienced. His love for her felt like a miracle.”
― Elizabeth Chandler, quote from Evercrossed
“I really do believe that there are those who would like and trust me better if they saw me weeping into a whisky, making a fool of myself, getting aggressive, maudlin and drunkenly out of control. I have never found those states in others anything other than tiring, awkward, embarrassing and fantastically dull, but I am quite sure that people would cherish a view of me in that condition at least once in a while.”
― Stephen Fry, quote from The Fry Chronicles
“The parallels to modern physics [with mysticism] appear not only in the Vedas of Hinduism, in the I Ching, or in the Buddhist sutras, but also in the fragments of Heraclitus, in the Sufism of Ibn Arabi, or in the teachings of the Yaqui sorcerer Don Juan.”
― Fritjof Capra, quote from The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism
“My goal is to make you scream my name. Give me what I want, but make me work for it.”
― Olivia Cunning, quote from Try Me
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