Alda Merini Quotes

#1. I don't like Paradise,
As they probably don't have obsessions there.

Alda Merini

#2. Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

#3. How can you dream about something you haven't even seen yet?

Jack Castle

#4. Whatever it was that others sought in life, their right to what they now felt was all the two of them wished to find.

Ayn Rand

#5. The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It's not a matter of learning techniques to "make friends and influence people." Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.

Sharon Salzberg

#6. NOPE. CAN'T GO TO HELL.SATAN STILL HAS A RESTRAINING ORDER AGAINST ME.

Darynda Jones

#7. In that moment, I could not write anything about flowers because I myself had turned into a flower, I myself had a stem and a lymph.

Alda Merini

#8. No one brushes my hair as well as the wind.

Alda Merini

#9. Nate jumped up and down, voice cracking as he talked. It worked! It worked! My Taser worked! Ha! Oh yeah, oh yeah! I can't believe I got this thing on eBay!

Stefan Petrucha

#10. You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.

Chuck Yeager

#11. It's important to start off with ideals, even if they become modified at some later stage.

Stuart Pearson Wright

#12. I used to hold a fiery wind
and I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly.

Alda Merini