Indigo > Indigo's Quotes

“She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow, she always managed to say or do something outrageous—she’d accept a dare to climb a flagpole, or make a slightly risqué joke, or go riding in cars with boys—and suddenly she was “that awful O’Neill girl” all over again.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

“Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others.”
― Hettie Jones

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
― Jim Bishop

“We are deemed successful, and therefore worthy of respect based on the simple fact that we managed to work enough hours, to accumulate enough wealth, to then have the means to acquire loads of stuff. How is sucking the life out of the planet admirable? It is a deeply flawed way of thinking and living.”
― Mary Paterson, The Monks and Me: How 40 Days at Thich Nhat Hanh's French Monastery Guided Me Home

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshiping.”
― Hubert Reeves

“If you live off a man's compliments, you'll die from his criticism.”
― Cornelius Lindsey

“Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free