Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
— D. H. Lawrence
Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.
