Iphigenia

“We want a house, a car, a fancy f*cking vacation, and prestige. So what do we do? We go to school and we get jobs we hate to pay for the things we want. We deal with people we don't like and waste years of our lives sitting in stark fluorescent-lit rooms and listening to coworkers who bore us so we can pay for a small amount of precious time to enjoy what makes us happy, to achieve a fraction of our lives just feeling as if it was all worth it. We sacrifice to earn.”
― Penelope Douglas, Falling Away

“The more you suffered, the more you survived. It shaped people in different ways, and what broke one person could empower another.”
― Penelope Douglas, Falling Away

“How can you rise, if you have not burned”
― St221

“Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths”
― Andrew Harvey, The Direct Path: Creating a Personal Journey to the Divine Using the World's Spiritual Traditions