Jean Toomer

Thank everyone who calls out your faults, your anger, your impatience, your egotism; do this consciously, voluntarily. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#anger

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#imagination

The realization of ignorance is the first act of knowing. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#first #ignorance #knowing #realization

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#fear #noose #strangles #until

I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#become #conscious #i #i am #less

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#itself #life #men #necessity #run

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#contemplate #dream #enough #feel #only

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#ever #eyes #lose #seen #sight

People mistake their limitations for high standards. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#high standards #limitations #mistake #people #standards

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. ↗

— Jean Toomer

#learn #life #rope