“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
—C.S. Lewis
June 2013
32 posts
“What you help a child to love can be more important than what you help him to learn.”
—African Proverb (via emotional-algebra)
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
—Don Miguel Ruiz
“In the dream I was onstage and there were thousands of you goin’ bananas for me, all laughing and clapping, celebrating your brains out, not because I was somethin’ else up there, but because you were just so happy I was finally starting to get it.”
—Buddy Wakefield
“Awareness is like the sun. When it shines on things, they are transformed.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh (via emotional-algebra)
“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.”
—Edmund Lee
“
We are the miracles that God made
To taste the bitter fruit of time
We are precious
And one day our suffering
Will turn into the wonders of the Earth
” —Ben Okri
“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
—Frederick Buechner (via emotional-algebra)
“Do not settle for less than exactly what you want. Your heart’s desires are there for a reason. Chase them. Pursue them relentlessly. Do not lose sight of your goals. They are your very reason for being.”
—Franki Durbin
“Let there be
an opening
into the quiet
that lies beneath
the chaos,
where you find
the peace
you did not think
possible
and see what shimmers
within the storm.” —Jan Richardson, from “Blessing in the Chaos”
an opening
into the quiet
that lies beneath
the chaos,
where you find
the peace
you did not think
possible
and see what shimmers
within the storm.” —Jan Richardson, from “Blessing in the Chaos”
“How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world?”
—Anne Frank (via emotional-algebra)
“Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.”
—Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?”
—Marcus Aurelius (via emotional-algebra)
“The darkest moments of one’s life may carry the seeds of the brightest tomorrow.”
—Ella Fitzgerald
“By your stumbling, the world is perfected.”
—Sri Aurobindo
“No one can tell if I’m laughing
or weeping. I wonder myself.
How can I be separated and yet in union?” —Rumi
or weeping. I wonder myself.
How can I be separated and yet in union?” —Rumi
“Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.”
—Victoria Moran
“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.”
—Carl Jung (via emotional-algebra)
“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
—Earl Nightingale
“I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.”
—Roald Dahl
