Love and Affection
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
― Sharon Salzberg
Image: Rodolfo Sanches Carvalho
Tag: life
Natural and Spontaneous Changes
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu
Better Shape
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Image: Hey – Quinten de Graaf
One’s Courage
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
― Anais Nin
Dwell on the Beauty of Life
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Image: Greg Rakozy
You couldn’t Relive Your Life
“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.”
― Stewart O’Nan, The Odds: A Love Story
Image: Kid Circus
Live Your Life
“People aren’t born good or bad. Maybe they’re born with tendencies either way, but it’s the way you live your life that matters.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Simple Things
“I like old bookstores, the smell of coffee brewing, rainy day naps, farmhouse porches, and sunsets. I like the sweet, simple things that remind me that life doesn’t have to be complicated to be beautiful.”
― Brooke Hampton
Choice
“Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.”
— Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)
Image: city of joy – Loren Joseph
Discovering the Limits
“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
Image: Ben White