It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.
— Colette
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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
All the things we blame on the heart. But love is not blind.
— spoken silence
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
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
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new?
— Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana
To see and feel one’s beloved naked for the first time is one of life’s pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
— Dan Simmons, The Rise of Endymion
