Best It Is What It Is Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I saw that there is no Nature,”

“He should be happy because he can think about the unhappiness of others!”

“I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,”

“I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.”

“Praise be to God I’m not good,”

“Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field”

“I was born subject like others to errors and defects,”

“Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.”

“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;”

“There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?”

“The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.”

“A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales”

“And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.”

“Night doesn’t fall for my eyes”

“Even so, I’m somebody.”

“If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,”

“I'm one of my sensations.”

“Accept the universe”

“What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.”

“It’s an already inside outside,”

“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less real than a rock. A dream is real — if it weren’t, it wouldn’t be a dream — but less real than a thing. That’s what being real is like.”

“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of life, with all the direct materiality of the child’s mind, and all the vital spirituality of hope and increase that exist in the body and soul of nescient childhood. Caeiro’s work is a dawn that wakes us up and quickens us; a more that material, more than anti-spiritual dawn. It’s an abstract effect, pure vacuum, nothingness.”