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#1

“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#2

“Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom.
How do they learn it?
They fall and falling,
they're given wings.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

281 likes

#3

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
― Rumi

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#4

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: better-life-empathy

18378 likes

#5

“Shine like the whole universe is yours.”
― Rumi

317 likes

#6

“Atticus, he was real nice."

"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: inspirational

2938 likes

#7

“It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.”
― Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith

tags: fall, help, hopeless, positivity

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#8

“You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

tags: inspirational, iran, persian-poetry, rumi, rumi-poetry

318 likes

#9

“Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.”
― Rumi

225 likes

#10

“how strange to find that the present contained such a bright shard of the living past, damaged and eroded but not destroyed.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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#11

“Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.”
― Rumi

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#12

“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”
― Joseph Conrad

tags: chronic-illness, cure, cures, healing, illness, inspirational, recovery

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#13

“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”
― Beau Taplin

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#14

“This sort of sickness is a nothingness, really – a state of limbo; neither well enough to be a functioning member of society nor possessing a sign of illness that signals to the world you are sick. There’s no broken arm. Not even a sore throat and hacking cough.”
― Frances Ryan

tags: chronic-fatigue, chronic-fatigue-syndrome, chronic-illness, exhaustion, myalgic-encephalomyelitis

12 likes

#15

“You belong among the wildflowers
You belong in a boat out at sea
You belong with your love on your arm
You belong somewhere you feel free”
― Tom Petty

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#16

“So often we think that the truth is a static entity that exists only in a singular place--a place that we have to find. But I have come to realize that the answers I have been looking for, the truth of my own body, was ever-changing.”
― Abby Norman, Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain

tags: bodies, chronic-illness, health, search, truth

3 likes

#17

“Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.”
― Shannon M Mullen, See What Flowers

tags: arctic, flower-quotes, hope, mental-illness, resilience, wildflowers

17 likes

#18

“Somewhere inside that hurting body, there is something better, something stronger, something real.”
― R. M. Drake

tags: better, chronic-illness, chronic-pain, hope, hurting, illness, in-pain, inspirational, inspirational-quote, pain, painful

24 likes

#19

“Hush, hush.
Hear the earth breathe.
Watch the wildflowers bloom.
Feel the calm of the silent dawn.
Be still.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

tags: earth, poem, poetry-quotes, richelle-e-goodrich, richelle-goodrich, silence

3 likes

#20

“Because the truth was I was tired. I was tired of fighting but more importantly I was tired of losing, of being disappointed.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, The Girl In Between

tags: chronic-illness

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#21

“here i am. there i was, broken. broken heart, broken dreams, broken soul. and there i was, stumbling down an endless road, my face tattooed in ashes, stained with tears, my clothes tattered, my feet tired of wandering. and there You were. standing at the end of the road, with your heart and arms open wide, and my tired feet ran, they ran to You, to your arms, to your heart. and here i am. slowly being put back together. here i am, no longer in tatters, but clothed in mercy, wrapped in grace. here i am, with a heart with open doors, a soul free to love and free to dream and free to be. with a crown of wildflowers instead of a crown of thorns, and a face of light and beauty instead of ashes. here i am.”
― Gaby Comprés, A Song of Bravery

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#22

“Within that tired body, lies a soul so persistent in love, repentant in serving others before yourself. I see the person who can sympathize all layers of the human experience. I see you.”
― Karen A. Baquiran

tags: chronic-fatigue-syndrome, chronic-illness, i-see-you, selflessness, sympathy

10 likes

#23

“She was a seed in spring
and a wildflower in autumn.”
― Giovannie de Sadeleer

tags: giovanniedesadeleer, inspirational-quotes, love, poem, poetry, seed, wildflower

4 likes

#24

“The thing is, there is no certainty in this life - in one second your entire world could shift. I'm not saying it will, but I am living proof that It can. We never prepare for tragedy and that's a good thing but my god what's it's taught me is how little we appreciate what we have or some cases once had.”
― Nikki Rowe

tags: acceptance, adversity, brave, change, chronic-illness, courage, crps, grateful, gratitude, hope, inner-strength, inspiration-through-illness, mindful, mindset, strength

8 likes

#25

“They'll look for you in a field of roses, having never really known you at all. For you'll never be found in a perfectly tendered garden, you're an untameable wildflower in this wild world.”
― Nikki rowe

tags: free-spirit-quotes, wild, wild-woman, wild-women, wildflower

18 likes

#26

“But maybe I could give myself something too—permission to keep trying. Even when it felt like it was all for nothing. Even if trying was all I ever did, I shouldn’t stop.”
― Laekan Zea Kemp, The Girl In Between

tags: chronic-illness

4 likes

#27

“be a wildflower.
grow
wherever
your heart beats.”
― Vinati Bhola, Udaari: a collection of poems

tags: growth, passion

3 likes

#28

“That is what chronic illness is . . . a disconnect between what our souls can do and what our bodies can do.”
― Barbara Lieberman, The Unchained Spirit: Or, the glass is half-full but I've forgotten where I put it

tags: body, chronic-illness, health, mind, mind-body-spirit, soul, spirit

20 likes

#29

“In a world of weeds, she was a wildflower. In a world of prose, her voice was poetry, In a world of darkness, she was light,
In a world of indifference, she cared, In a world of flaws, she was perfect,
In my life of nothing, she was my world.”
― Cody Edward Lee Miller

2 likes

#30

“We can feel isolated and powerless when living with chronic illness, but what if your story begins to bridge the barrier or open a way for someone to connect? What if your story offers a glimmer of hope to someone standing at the edge of desolation? ...What if your story starts the conversation?”
― Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness

tags: chronic-illness, connect, conversation, hope, story

12 likes

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