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#1

“Home's where you go when you run out of homes.”
― John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy

tags: anchoring, attachment, belonging, home, homecoming, homelessness, roots

1391 likes

#2

“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: love, roots

275 likes

#3

“Let's not grow with our roots in the ground.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: adventures, divine, experiences, flying, freedom, grow, growth, inspirational, journey, learning, life, roots, spiritual, traveling

43 likes

#4

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir

tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness

3667 likes

#5

“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: act, acting, actor, actors, adage, adages, animal, animals, aphorism, aphorisms, audacity, axiom, axioms, balls, be-yourself, boldness, brave, bravery, cojones, conform, conforming, conformity, courage, courageous, courageousness, daring, dead, death, deep, dictum, dictums, die, epigram, epigrams, facade, facades, fear, fearful, fearlessness, fit-in, fitting-in, fruit, fruits, gallantry, gnome, gnomes, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, herself, himself, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humour, insightful, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspired, intrepidity, kill, killed, lemon, lemons, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, motivated, motivational, motive, moxie, murder, murdered, nerve, nonconformity, oneself, orange, people, peoples, person, persons, plant, plants, pluck, pluckiness, pretend, pretender, pretenders, pretending, produce, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, self, spunk, standing-out, standout, themselves, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tree, trees, true-grit, valour, words-to-live-by, yourself

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#6

“Trees exhale for us so that we can inhale them to stay alive. Can we ever forget that? Let us love trees with every breath we take until we perish”
― Munia Khan

tags: alive, breathe, breathing, exhale, exhaling, green, inhale, inhaling, love, lovefortrees, nature, nature-quotes, perish, stay, taking-breath, tree, tree-quotations, tree-quote, tree-quotes, trees

10 likes

#7

“3 A.M. isn't a time for sleep when the silhouette of you is breathing next to me.”
― Taylor Patton

tags: 3am, breathing, love, poem, poems, poetry

4 likes

#8

“Just because you're breathing, doesn't mean you're alive.”
― Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift

tags: alive, author, books, breathing, carew-papritz, life-quotes, quotes-to-live-by, the-legacy-letters, writing

7 likes

#9

“Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.”
― Ryan Lilly, Write like no one is reading

tags: breathe, breathing, breathing-in-and-out, breathing-in-awareness, broken, broken-heart, broken-hearted, brokenness, charities, charity, collage, compassion, compassionate, empathetic, empathy, encouragement, glass, helping, human-condition, hurt, hurting, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, light, love, love-quote, loving, mosaic, motivation, motivational-quote, motivational-quotes, stained, stained-glass, take-my-breath-away, volunteer, volunteering

24 likes

#10

“Just because I’m breathing, doesn’t mean I’m alive; vice versa.”
― Rea Lidde, Haven

tags: alive, breathing, die, life

3 likes

#11

“I wasn't aware that words could hold so much. I didn't know a sentence could be so full.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

1300 likes

#12

“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

392 likes

#13

“If anyone would understand loneliness, the moon would.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

511 likes

#14

“She knew the years of isolation had altered her behavior until she was different from others, but it wasn't her fault she'd been alone. Most of what she knew, she'd learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

297 likes

#15

“How much do you trade to defeat loneliness?”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

246 likes

#16

“Some parts of us will always be what we were, what we had to be to survive...”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

71 likes

#17

“Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

tags: growing-up, imagination, lonliness, lonliness-quotes

53 likes

#18

“some things can’t be explained, only forgiven or not.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

21 likes

#19

“People forget about creatures that live in shells.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

tags: wildlife

16 likes

#20

“She hesitated; touching someone meant giving part of herself away, a piece she never got back.”
― Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

12 likes

#21

“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

404 likes

#22

“Being traumatized means continuing to organize your life as if the trauma were still going on—unchanged and immutable—as every new encounter or event is contaminated by the past.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

150 likes

#23

“It takes enormous trust and courage to allow yourself to remember.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

176 likes

#24

“True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

198 likes

#25

“True belonging doesn't require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

70 likes

#26

“Joseph Campbell wrote, “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

59 likes

#27

“Never underestimate the power of being seen”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

50 likes

#28

“To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

119 likes

#29

“Music, like all art, gives pain and our most wrenching emotions voice, language, and form, so it can be recognized and shared. The magic of the high lonesome sound is the magic of all art: the ability to both capture our pain and deliver us from it at the same time.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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#30

“After fifteen years of this work, I can confidently say that stories of pain and courage almost always include two things: praying and cussing. Sometimes at the exact same time.”
― Brené Brown, Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

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