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#1

“Religion is for people who're afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who've already been there.”
― Vine Deloria Jr.

tags: native-american-wisdom, religion, spirituality

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#2

“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, poetry

16144 likes

#3

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

tags: poetry, science, stars

3424 likes

#4

“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems

2642 likes

#5

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: adoration, love, poetry

1675 likes

#6

“Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry

1667 likes

#7

“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding”
― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

tags: love, poetry, spirituality

1398 likes

#8

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: acceptance, beginnings, boundaries, break-ups, breaking-up, challenges, change, confidence, dignity, divorce, empowerment, inspiration, letting-go, life, marriage, moving-on, pride, relationships, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, trials, women

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#9

“What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.”
― Anais Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

tags: character, courage, destiny, empowerment, responsibility, self-control, self-improvement

992 likes

#10

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: anonymous-authorship, dignity, empowerment, feminism, gender, history, misogyny, persecution, social-norms, suppression, witches, women, women-writers, writing

617 likes

#11

“If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.’

[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]”
― Shane Koyczan

tags: art, empowerment, heartbreak, resilience

262 likes

#12

“Everything is within your power,
and your power is within you.”
― Janice Trachtman, Catching What Life Throws at You: Inspiring True Stories of Healing

tags: change, change-life, change-quotes, change-the-world, change-your-life, change-your-mind, empowered, empowerment, encourae-yourself, encourage-yourself, encouragement, encouragement-and-attitude, encouragement-quotes, encouraging, encouraging-quotes, innate-wisdom, inner-strength, inspirational, inspiring, inspiring-quote, inspiring-quotes, law-of-attraction, motivating, motivational, motivational-quotes, personal-development, positive, positive-quote, positive-thinking, positivity, power, power-of-the-subconscious-mind, power-of-thoughts, power-of-will, power-of-women, powerful, powerful-quotes, powerful-women, powerful-words, self-empowered, self-empowerment, self-healing, self-help, self-help-inspiration, self-help-motivator, self-help-quote, self-help-quotes, self-improvement, spiritual, spiritual-quote, spiritual-wisdom, strength, strength-of-mind, strength-of-spirit, strong, strong-will, strong-willed, strong-woman, strong-women, subconscious, uplifting

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#13

“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: attitude, empowerment, inspirational, life, self-determination, strength

111 likes

#14

“To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.”
― Federico García Lorca, Blood Wedding and Yerma

tags: desire, punishment, unrequited-love

4519 likes

#15

“Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

tags: humanity, kindness, relationships

11057 likes

#16

“I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay

tags: heart, infidelity, relationships, seasons, summer

3236 likes

#17

“I want to be in a relationship where you telling me you love me is just a ceremonious validation of what you already show me.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, being-loved, inspirational, life, love, relationships

2658 likes

#18

“I was suffering the easily foreseeable consequences. Addiction is the hallmark of every infatuation-based love story. It all begins when the object of your adoration bestows upon you a heady, hallucinogenic dose of something you never dared to admit you wanted-an emotional speedball, perhaps, of thunderous love and roiling excitement. Soon you start craving that intense attention, with a hungry obsession of any junkie. When the drug is witheld, you promptly turn sick, crazy, and depleted (not to mention resentful of the dealer who encouraged this addiction in the first place but now refuses to pony up the good stuff anymore-- despite the fact that you know he has it hidden somewhere, goddamn it, because he used to give it to you for free). Next stage finds you skinny and shaking in a corner, certain only that you would sell your soul or rob your neighbors just to have 'that thing' even one more time. Meanwhile, the object of your adoration has now become repulsed by you. He looks at you like you're someone he's never met before, much less someone he once loved with high passion. The irony is,you can hardly blame him. I mean, check yourself out. You're a pathetic mess,unrecognizable even to your own eyes. So that's it. You have now reached infatuation's final destination-- the complete and merciless devaluation of self." - pg 20-21”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: heartache, inspirational, relationships

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#19

“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

tags: discipline, freedom

1635 likes

#20

“Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.”
― John MacArthur Jr.

tags: desire, discipline

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#21

“Forgiveness takes intelligence, discipline, imagination, and persistence, as well as a special psychological strength, something athletes call mental toughness and warriors call courage.”
― Edward M. Hallowell, Dare to Forgive: The Power of Letting Go and Moving On

tags: courage, discipline, forgiveness, forgiving, free, psychological

37 likes

#22

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos

6820 likes

#23

“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
― Nietzsche

tags: suicide

2504 likes

#24

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anais Nin

tags: independence, women

4166 likes

#25

“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go. Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anais Nin

tags: anais-nin, art

4208 likes

#26

“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
― Anais Nin

tags: growth, life, maturity

3692 likes

#27

“I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don’t mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don’t mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling, be all that I am capable of doing, but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.”
― Anaïs Nin

tags: bdsm, erotica

1466 likes

#28

“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.”
― Anais Nin

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#29

“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live.”
― Anais Nin

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#30

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: love, romance, work

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