Multitudes Quotes

“Half of me is filled with bursting words and half of me is painfully shy. I crave solitude yet also crave people. I want to pour life and love into everything yet also nurture my self-care and go gently. I want to live within the rush of primal, intuitive decision, yet also wish to sit and contemplate. This is the messiness of life - that we all carry multitudes, so must sit with the shifts. We are complicated creatures, and ultimately, the balance comes from this understanding. Be water. Flowing, flexible and soft. Subtly powerful and open. Wild and serene. Able to accept all changes, yet still led by the pull of steady tides. It is enough.”
― Victoria Erickson

“Is it that my habit of placing myself in the souls of other people makes me see myself as others see or would see me if they noticed my presence there? It is. And once I've perceived what they would feel about me if they knew me, it is as if they were feeling and expressing it at that very moment. It is a torture to me to live with other people. Then there are those who live inside me. Even when removed from life, I'm forced to live with them. Alone, I am hemmed in by multitudes. I have nowhere to flee to, unless I were to flee myself.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts. They, too, need certainties and simple truths to make the multitudes understand, to provoke collective tears.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Siempre he creído que una persona es inteligente. Son las multitudes las que son estúpidas. Y pocas cosas confirman esto mejor que la guerra, la religion organizada, la burocracia y la preparatoria, donde la mayoria reina sin piedad. Cuando recordé mis primeros dias ahí, todo lo que ví fue una inseguridade y una duda tan agobiantes que un simple grano era capaz de sacar mi vida de balance. Sólo hasta mis últimos dias tuve confianza y respeto por mi mísmo, incluso un poco de individualid.”
― Marilyn Manson, The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

“Maybe what I'd thought was my superpower was actually just this: I was finally able to see that nothing was simply good or bad, that everyone contained multitudes, and that I, like anyone, was a beautiful, swirling, chaotic galaxy of all the things that had ever happened to me.”
― Michelle Cuevas, The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole

“Some of our dormant multitudes come awake with a catlike stretch, slowly and lazily over years of personal development. Others leap into being with the jolt of an alarm sounded by a particular event or person who has entered our lives at a particular moment—rarely anticipated, almost never convenient, always transformational. On those rare, momentous mornings, one looks into the bathroom mirror and greets—sometimes grudgingly, sometimes gleefully—the gladsome stranger of oneself.”
― Maria Popova, Figuring

“You don’t write a book when God called you to publish a library! You don’t plant a tree when God send you to cultivate a forest! You don’t evangelize to a crowd when God called you for a multitude! No matter the circumstances, find yourself doing something relevant and do it till all is well done!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“So many people want to die when all they need is to start living.”
― Anonymous

“When God honours you, your name will be a blessing to many. Your deeds will help multitudes, and your prayers will move mountains.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Combien de personnes faut-il pour faire un livre? Combien d'êtres chacune de ces personnes contient-elle à son tour, combien de fantômes? Et si c'étaient les fantômes qui écrivaient? Quand aujourd'hui je dis "je", qu'est-ce qui parle?”
― Dominique Fortier, Les ombres blanches

“Fundamental and flagrant contradictions rarely occur in second-rate writers; in the work of the great authors, they lead into the very center of their work.”
― Hannah Arendt

“A single watch or clock can be a powerful influence on a man, but when a man lives among as many watches and clocks as crowded the tiny, dim shop of Mr Gonzales, some lagging behind, some skipping ahead, but all ticking monotonously on in their witless fashion, the multitude of them may be likely to deprive them of importance, as a gem loses its value when there are too many just like it which are too easily or cheaply obtainable.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Mysteries of the Joy Rio

“Your local dreams contain global elements; think global. On no account should you settle with a crowd when God has called you for multitudes! Dare to dream big!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“I’ve learned that I am not just a poet, that poets are not just poets. If I could tell my younger self one thing about being a poet...I’d tell her that we contain multitudes.” @Nic_Sealey”
― Nicole Sealey

“When God honours you, your name will be a blessing to many. Your deeds will help multitudes and your prayers will move mountains.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“You do not need multitudes on your side, you just need God and you will experience multiple breakthroughs.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Following multitudes to the Sky is not bad, but if you have nothing doing in the Sky; Discover and follow the road that leads to your Dream.”
― Edwin J. Chisom

“Art is a reminder that you actually do contain multitudes--and that's OK.”
― George Saunders

“What do we know of the man
who passes us in the street?
Do we notice his multitudes
— the million masterpieces of his mind?
There aren’t enough years to really know someone.
He has already changed in the passing.
Come, it is getting late.
Let me share my infinite selves.”
― Kamand Kojouri