CHINDIISMS

“Happiness is not a goal for which to strive, but a pleasant thing to experience along the way.”

“I can’t see right, but I’ve been taught how to look.”

“Chante comme un gitan, danse comme un esprit, travaille comme un esclave, va avec le vent.”

“What seems like toughness often turns out to be appalling vulnerability.”

“In cases where a young life is violently taken, a store of unused vitality often becomes available.”

“You’ve got to be caged; none of us are free. The freedom is in the choice of what to be caged by.”

“To see in nature a mystical reality.”

“I think it’s watertight, it just doesn’t hold any water.”

“I am writing my own ending.”

“Why do people read? To lose themselves in someone else’s life?
And why do people write? To lose themselves in their own life by making it sound like someone else’s?”

“Aim low, and know that even if you miss, you’ll still just be in the dirt where you started.”

“Read, write, submit. Repeat. Live. Dream. Be. Practise. Create.”

“Allow your mind to breathe and your veins to follow it.”

“To will is to stir up paradoxes.”

“Smoking inspires works of genius.”

“I don't think it even counts as burning the candle at both ends anymore.
It's just a smouldering heap of wax in the middle of the floor.”

“As long as you keep reading, it’ll all be alright.”

“It’s amazing what you can do when you don’t know you can’t do it.”

“A friend is just an enemy you haven't made yet.”

“Home is where the bones are resting.”

“Through nothing I can become what I am.”

“Perhaps I wore a hairnet of the mind, 
To stop trailing tendrils
Across my thoughts.”