January 2012
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When you check your mind, do not rationalize or push. Relax. Do not be upset...
– Lama Yeshe
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our greatest strength lies in the gentleness and tenderness of our heart.
– Rumi
If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
– Lemony Snicket
I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light...
– Hafiz
Hope(lessness)
random-people:
At times she feels hopeless and at times she feels hope, and in between, if she’s lucky, there’s a blissful kind of nothingness giving her time to rest. Rest is necessary, because both hopelessness and hope are tiring feelings to have, especially when, some days, they alternate so rapidly it makes her wonder whether it is possible to feel hopelessness and hope at the same time. It...
Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way...
– Leo Tolstoy
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will...
– Anne Lamott
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We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something...
– Frederick Keonig
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When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...
– Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Whirling Sound of Planet Dickens”