Amy > Amy's Quotes

“In reality every reader is, while he is reading, the reader of his own self. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have perceived in himself.”
― Marcel Proust

“We must free ourselves from the prison of everyday affairs and politics.”
― Epicurus, Complete works of Epicurus: Text, Summary, Motifs and Notes

“Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.”
― Jane Hirshfield