bloomgraciously

“When we face our limits, when we push ourselves beyond our comfort zone and to the edge of what it is we can handle, we become more connected to the moment. These challenges focus our minds, sharpen our awareness, and heighten our senses, ensuring that our minds are not preoccupied with unnecessary worries and concerns. It is in these moments that we transcend ourselves, finding a sense of clarity rarely experienced outside intense meditation.”
― Brock Bastian, The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to Living

“We divide the world -to stop us feeling frightened- into wrong and into right, into black and into white, into real men and fairies, into status quo and scary. We divide the world into terrorists and heroes, into normal folk and weirdos, into good people and pedos, yeah we want the world binary, binary, but it's not that simple.

We divide the world into liberals and gun-freaks, into atheists and fundies, into teetotallers and junkies, into chemical and natural, into fictional and factual, into science and supernatural, but it's actually, naturally, not that white and black

The more you know, the harder you will find it, to make up your mind, and it doesn't really matter if you find you can't see which grass is greener -chances are it's neither- and either way it's easier to see the difference when you're sitting on the fence -cause it's not that simple-

From: The Fence (An Anthem to Ambivalence)”
― Tim Minchin

“ Strength

Don't let them tell you that your pain should be confined to the past, that it bears no relevance to the present. Your pain is part of who you are.

They don't know how strong that makes you.”
― Lang Leav, Sea of Strangers

“I am no nihilist. I am not even a cynic. I am, actually, rather romantic. And here’s my idea of romance: You will soon be dead. Life will sometimes seem long and tough and, god, it’s tiring. And you will sometimes be happy and sometimes sad. And then you’ll be
old. And then you’ll be dead.”
― Tim Minchin