9 Markings - D.H.Lawrence

I have never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A little bird will fall dead, frozen from a bough, without ever having felt sorry for itself.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it, and the journey is always towards the other soul.”

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't.