Franchesca Diaz

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

“Without compassion for oneself, without a sense of one’s own goodness and value, it is hard to develop the confidence to engage effectively with the world. And without compassion for other beings, without a sense of our profound interconnectedness, it is hard to find the courage to break the habit of focusing solely on our own limited self-concerns.”
― Shambhala Publications, Radical Compassion: Shambhala Publications Authors on the Path of Boundless Love

“if the ocean can calm itself so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air. – meditation”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby