Not Being Empty
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Image: Nowhere – Daniel Jensen
Tag: self love
Memories
“No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.”
― Haruki Murakami
Image: Ben Warren
Love and Affection
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
― Sharon Salzberg
Image: Rodolfo Sanches Carvalho
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
Ceased to Live
“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
― Mark Twain
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