Quote Of The Day

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again." ~Anais Nin

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown, which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments." ~Jim Morrison

"Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting." ~Gottfried Leibniz

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color...straight to the mind and heart of all people." ~Ben Harper

“Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.” ~Jean Kerr

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

Grateful for the beings who cross my path with these shared words of others who deeply touch my heart...

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." ~Michel de Montaigne

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

“After all this time searching for a mysterious place in union with others and out in the world, may you find there was a home you’ve always-never known waiting within. Unaware as you may have been, it has gone on chirping and creaking and mutually flourishing, waiting for you to stop seeking and allow yourself to belong.” ~Toko-pa Turner

"He who defines himself forgets he is the definer & not the definition." ~Tao Lore

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

Rinse and repeat...

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do or say is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.” ~Don Miguel Ruiz

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy. It's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all." ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

[The Albatross]

“When you're dodging, you're "afraid of getting hit." When you're attacking, you're "afraid of hitting me." When you're protecting someone, you're "afraid of them dying."

It's pathetic! You can't give into fear in a fight!

When you're dodging, think "I won't let you hit me!" When you're protecting someone, think "I won't let you die!" When you're attacking, think "I will cut you!"
--Urahara Kisuke”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 11


“If I don't wield the sword,
I can't protect you.

If I keep wielding the sword,
I can't embrace you.
-Ichigo Kurosaki”
― Tite Kubo, Bleach, Volume 05

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Schools teach us to believe in what we might call the divine right of experts. Since they can put us and keep us in school, control our lives there, tell us what we have to learn and how, and grade and rank us by how well we learn it, we naturally learn to believe that all through life, in any situation, there must be experts somewhere who know better than we do what is best for us and what we should do next." ~John Holt

 

[osiris]

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
Kahlil Gibran

 

[The Albatross]

"Don’t predict the condition of the entire day by the state of the morning. You don’t judge a book by its cover. A cloudy morning is no guarantee for a rainy day!" ~ Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords

 

[Tornadic Thoughts]

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best." ~Henry Van Dyke