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#1

“Can a rose survive in winter?”
― Gina Marinello-Sweeney, The Rose and the Sword

tags: battle, good-vs-evil, rose, winter

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#2

“Do not avert your eyes.
It is important
that you see this.
It is important that you feel
this.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: acknowledge, animals, art, artist, atrocity, avert, awaken, awakening, aware, awareness, comprehend, conscious, consciousness, corrupt, corruption, country, deforestation, disease, extinction, eyes, famine, feel, flood, gaze, genocide, global-warming, grasp, homelessness, human, humanity, humanness, hunger, important, kamand, kamand-kojouri, know, kojouri, look, look-away, media, nation, nature, news, notice, perceive, perception, perspective, politics, poverty, present, realise, realize, recognise, recognize, see, stare, starvation, transcend, transform, transformation, understand, violence, war

15 likes

#3

“I can do nothing for you but work on myself...you can do nothing for me but work on yourself!”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

177 likes

#4

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

tags: inspiration

4194 likes

#5

“What a liberation to realize that the “voice in my head” is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

383 likes

#6

“Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, the third is useless.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

tags: comprehension, intellect, intelligence, knowledge, philosophy, use

511 likes

#7

“When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: bad-people, brain, cognition, compassion, comprehension, development, empathy, good, good-people, misunderstanding, misunderstood, perspective, psychology, sympathy, understanding

426 likes

#8

“When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them. Or you fill them up with sadness, and they destroy themselves. Or you fill them up with justice, and they try to destroy everything that's bad and cruel in this world. Me, I was the first kind of person.”
― Nick Lake, In Darkness

tags: destruction, hate

76 likes

#9

“Anyway I don't think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

58 likes

#10

“I see You, Every time I look into Buddha’s eyes. I give myself to You. Every time I alter one of Your 1,000s names. Honestly & fully I love You. Through Christ and Maria, Shiva and Shakti, Krishna and Radha, With every day that passes and every breath I take. I enter gratitude for receiving Your Love. Obeying Your Laws of Truthfulness and Ahimsa, Weaving Prana With hearts and souls of Gaia. Through mysticism, shamanism, sufism, and ecstatic meditations. I yearn to touch You, to feel You, to be You. Within this amazing Journey of Awareness of Your Consciousness.”
― Natasa Pantovic Nuit, Tree of Life with Spiritual Poetry

tags: consciousness, nuit, poetry-quotes, spiritual-quotes, tree-of-life

9 likes

#11

“Follow your heart; for the mind hath no answers but the heart asketh no questions.”
― Kayambila Mpulamasaka

tags: tree-of-life, truth-of-life

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#12

“To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light. Once one has experienced a few times what it is like to stand judgingly between the opposites, one begins to understand what is meant by the self. Anyone who perceives his shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.”
― C. G. Jung

37 likes

#13

“Whatever you do in life will be insignificant but it is very important that you do it because you can't know. You can't ever really know the meaning of your life. And you don't need to. Every life has a meaning, whether it lasts one hundred years or one hundred seconds. Every life, and every death, changes the world in its own way. You can't know. So don't take it for granted. But don't take it too seriously. Don't postpone what you want. Don't leave anything misunderstood. Make sure the people you care about know. Make sure they know how you really feel. Because just like that...It could end.”
― Ghandi

tags: life, remember-me

83 likes

#14

“An old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.”
― Carl Jung

tags: alchemy, dreams, magic, psychoanalysis, psychology, witchcraft

161 likes

#15

“Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, live-in-the-moment, optimism, wonder

2200 likes

#16

“Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you’re here and nothing you can do will change that. Today you’re alive and here and honored, and blessed with good fortune. Look at this sunset, it’s beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity.

Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.”
― James Clavell, Shōgun

tags: advice-for-daily-living, carpe-diem, how-to-live, live-in-the-moment

348 likes

#17

“It's hard not to hate. People, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed... hate is the only feeling that makes sense. But I know what hate does to a man. Tears him apart. Turns him into something he's not. Something he promised
himself he'd never become.”
― Jax Teller

tags: sons-of-anarchy

29 likes

#18

“Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.”
― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth

tags: duck, wings

1783 likes

#19

“Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
― T.S. Eliot

tags: life, poetry

2047 likes

#20

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

1271 likes

#21

“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don't expect to get anything back, don't expect recognition for your efforts, don't expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

455 likes

#22

“Here is a lesson in creative writing.

First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.

And I realize some of you may be having trouble deciding whether I am kidding or not. So from now on I will tell you when I'm kidding.

For instance, join the National Guard or the Marines and teach democracy. I'm kidding.

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

If you want to really hurt your parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: art, creative-process, humor, writing

645 likes

#23

“The most complicated skill is to be simple.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

tags: complicated, dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, poetry, poetry-quotes, quotes, quotes-to-live-by, simple, skill, thoughts, wisdom

234 likes

#24

“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there”
― Julia Gregson, East of the Sun

tags: drowning, east-of-the-sun, feeling, feet, julia-gregson, panic, scared, strange, swimming

204 likes

#25

“I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.”
― Jessi Kirby, Moonglass

tags: drowning, drowning-one-s-sorrows, emotions, moonglass, water

99 likes

#26

“They call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning.”
― Ilsa J. Bick, Drowning Instinct

tags: deep, drowning, metaphor

54 likes

#27

“The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!”
― Inio Asano, Solanin

tags: bored, drowning, humor, lies, manga, weirdness, world

52 likes

#28

“There’s an old adage: the sensation of drowning reminds you of everything you ever knew about swimming.”
― Frederick Weisel, Teller

tags: drowning, frederick-weisel, swimming, teller, weisel

23 likes

#29

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2112 likes