Antidote Quote by Mary Oliver

I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a…

— Fernando Pessoa

Writers are voracious readers. Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the…

— Gloria Naylor

Careless of books, yet having felt the power Of Nature, by the gentle agency Of natural objects, led me on to feel For passions…

— William Wordsworth

Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

— Jodie Foster

The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and…

— Haruki Murakami

I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

— Iyanla Vanzant

“...reading literature could teach you about the "universal human experience". Maybe you'll never hunt another man through the jungle. Maybe you won't climb Mount…

— Steve Dublanica

As I love and accept myself exactly as I am, right here and right now with all my so-called flaws and imperfections, I find…

— Louise Hay

I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What…

— Ivan Goncharov

“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all…

— Jane Austen

I lived, particularly in childhood but with lessening intensity right on to middle age, in a world that was peculiarly and intimately my own,…

— George F. Kennan

The earth was all before me. With a heart Joyous, nor scared at its own liberty, I look about; and should the chosen guide…

— William Wordsworth