I am not an angel,’ I asserted; ‘and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me – for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
— Charlotte Bront?, Jane Eyre
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— William Shakespeare, Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Of Ruin and Renewal
We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Sorting through the rubble
Of our painful past.
We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Waiting for the dust
To settle at last
We are souls
Of ruin and renewal
Searching for eyes that see us
And walk through the debris
We are souls
Of ruin and renewal,
We rebuild, we revive,
We repurpose our own story.
— Liz Newman, Of Ruin and Renewal: Poems For Rebuilding
Listen with curiosity. Speak with honesty. Act with integrity. The greatest problem with communication is we don?t listen to understand. We listen to reply. When we listen with curiosity, we don?t listen with the intent to reply. We listen for what?s behind the words.
— Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
Integrity is doing the right thing when nobody’s watching, doing as you say you would do.
— Roy Bennett
All the things we blame on the heart. But love is not blind.
— spoken silence
It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors!
— C. JoyBell C.
I’ll be inside the one who holds you. And then I won’t be.
— Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland
When life starts to hurt, People start to ignore, Luck starts to blame and the Hard work starts to beat then sit for the complete set of gyming. And start to doubt yourself, hate yourself, blame yourself and make strong yourself because you’re the only inspiration of yourself.
— Raj Kumar Koochitani
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph.
— Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
God does not accommodate!
God is Holy and we must demand that any effort in His name must manifest the integrity of His nature as anything less than this is not worthy of His majesty, awesomeness, and holiness.
— John M. Sheehan
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
— Sharon Salzberg
