“You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don't know it, all of that doesn't even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It's not like you have forever, so don't waste any of your seconds, don't throw even one of your moments away.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“When a Wanderess has been caged,
or perched with her wings clipped,
She lives like a Stoic,
She lives most heroic,
smiling with ruby, moistened lips
once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.”
― Roman Payne

“Life will break every one of your contracts & still look at you with that innocent glimmer in her eye & ask you to marry her.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Happiness is like water. Remove all obstacles and it’ll come rushing in. Or it’ll wear away at them slowly and get the last laugh in the end . . . Because ecstasy is our destiny.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Failure embraces everyone, but only experts know, how to slip her the tongue.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Never forget that feeling fantastic is a massive magnet for summoning more magic.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Sometimes you get so high on life only because you truly know what it’s like to live from the bottom of the barrel.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“It's nonsensical the way you tickle my ventricles and use many magical mirrors to show me I'm identical to everything that's invincible.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“[Italy is] A country where pleasure principle dominates.”
― Sari Gilbert, My Home Sweet Rome: Living (and loving) in Italy's Eternal City

“They thought, or Peter at any rate thought, that she enjoyed imposing herself; liked to have famous people about her; great names; was simply a snob in short. Well, Peter might think so. Richard merely thought it foolish of her to like excitement when she knew it was bad for her heart. It was childish, he thought. And both were quite wrong. What she liked was simply life.
“That's what I do it for," she said, speaking aloud, to life.
...
But suppose Peter said to her, "Yes, yes, but your parties—what's the sense of your parties?" all she could say was (and nobody could be expected to understand): They're an offering; which sounded horribly vague.
...
And she felt quite continuously a sense of their existence; and she felt what a waste; and she felt what a pity; and she felt if only they could be brought together; so she did it. And it was an offering; to combine, to create; but to whom?”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“I keep taking hits. But I'm still getting high on the acceptance of knowing I can't control life's events.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Live with purpose, love with passion, laugh with caution.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Life is not about the stars; it's all about the hand you hold while counting them.”
― Wrushank Sorte

“You’re only given a little spark of madness. If you lose that, you’re nothing. Don’t ever lose that cause it keeps you alive.”
― Robin Williams

“But the longer Sadie knew Marx, the more she thought Sam hadn't truly understood the nature of Marx's good fortune. Marx was fortunate because he saw everything as if it were a fortuitous bounty.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I knew your mother so well I could play her part. The same with my own mother and my grandmother and my childhood best friend, Euna, who drowned my the lake by her cousin's house. There are no ghosts, but up here-- she gestured towards her head-- it's a haunted house.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“One of the greatest paths to wholeness is learning how to accept the holes.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Guru In The Glass: A Mysterious Encounter While Dying To Live The Unlived Life

“Sometimes you get so jazzed on the moment you can actually hear the universe sing, as you swing from life’s high notes and hit the low notes equally, improvising artistically without missing a beat or hanging on like a leech, leaving each passing moment to zone in on the texture of the next melodic tones life continually brings‬.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“In youth, there can be a feeling that time moves too slowly. But, as we age, the acceptance that our time is limited prompts the wise to cherish each and every moment.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“The sweet majesty of your cosmic rhythm, keeps the galaxy’s feet dancing to the beat of your transcendent individualism.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Sleeping With Enormity: The Art Of Seducing Your Dreams & Living With Passion

“It’s hard to keep a good man down who constantly has a hard on for life.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Truth is a priceless treasure, but worthless if buried. Value simplicity. Pause to smell a rose, preferably planted by your hand, for it will smell sweeter. Toil builds character; heartache tests our fortitude. The key to happiness is forgiveness, forgiving ourselves most of all.”
― Michelle Muriel, Westland

“The more we are willing to release all that is holding us back from accepting a higher, loving power into our lives, the more we become available to experience true miracles everyday.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Spirit In Disguise: A Guide to Miraculous Living, Book 2

“But I feel content; grateful for every morning that I wake up with another day on this earth and another chance to do good and feel good and make others feel good too.”
― Dolly Alderton

“I’m fiercely protective of my freedom. My attitude is that people can love it or shove it. They can show love or shove off. They can get with it or get lost. I’m not gonna stop loving my life to the fullest because you’ve caged yourself into living, thinking and feeling small! My mind is expansive and I’m giving my all to follow this deep call of pursuing my vision quest to explore and express every area of life that propels me to progress and evolve!”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Sometimes we forget about our problems and find the focus and clarity of everything in this moment that makes our problems disappear.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Being born is the greatest risk of all. We’re not sure how life will work out. But we’re here, and we have to try. Otherwise, all the karmic forces will send us rebounding back to Earth with no more consciousness than when we did our last round. We need to learn how to make our living, dying, and returning an entirely conscious, loving, and safe process.”
― Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

“Ever since the lovely earth removed her dress, let me reach out, touch, and caress her captivating breasts, I've had a love affair with mountain climbing and I'm enthralled by our frequent peak experiences.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Giants At Play: Finding Wisdom, Courage, And Acceptance To Encounter Your Destiny