Source: wonderfulsenses
People are fickle and changeable. Don’t to look to them for your sense of self worth.
(via purplebuddhaquotes)
Injustice requires our outrage and compassion. Outrage for the wound, compassion for the wounded. We do both.
J.S. Park (via jspark3000)
Never be deluded into making this statement: ‘I am here because I am so useful,’ say rather ‘I am here because God wants me here.’
Oswald Chambers, in Run Today’s Race (via tblaberge)
Sometimes I forget to listen. I forget to let a friend be. To tell their whole story and paint their full heart into the air.
I’m too eager to respond with a fix, a solution, a plan. I interrupt the art. I look for a pause to jump in and offer all sorts of articulate banter, when this isn’t what they want. They just want to speak until they’re out of breath, and then meet eyes and feel like they’re okay and understood and not alone. It’s a beautiful thing, and I want to let it happen. I want to let them finish painting in their own words. And then maybe I will understand. — J
Sometimes we have to be present in the things we do, to feel the pain and reflect on the joy. To laugh and contemplate, to experience it all in silence. Sometimes we have to process it all in order to live now, this world is always moving, don’t let life move the moments that matter into simple memories before you have a chance to enjoy it completly. Learn to be before you start wishing to be somewhere else.
T.B. LaBerge // Go Now (via tblaberge)
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love… . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.
Sylvia Plath (via purplebuddhaproject)
