The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
— David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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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
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
Without sacrifice, how can there be success?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people. I was alone on the train and had no idea where I was going, and that?s why I went there. Two hours later we arrived in a small town, one of those towns with one single coffee shop and where everyone knows each other?s name. I walked for a while until I found the water, the most peaceful place I know. There I sat and stayed the whole day, with nothing and everything on my mind, cleaning my head. Silence, I learned, is some times the most beautiful sound.
— Charlotte Eriksson
