Same Lessons

“Be so full of Love and Light 
that nothing can bother your inner peace.”

“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.” 

—

Voltaire

“Success is not the key to happiness.
Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”

—	Albert Schweitzer

" …and your absence is the strongest scent in the air. "

- Madison Maheni (via poemusicoffee)

(Source: word-digest)

“Happiness is a choice, not a result. 

Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. 

No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. 

Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.” 

 

—	Ralph Marston

“Consider that you radiate. At all times. 

Consider that what you’re feeling right now is rippling outward into a field of is-ness that anyone can dip their oar into. 

You are felt. You are heard. You are seen. 

If you were not here, the world would be different. 

Because of your presence, the universe is expanding.” 

 

—	Danielle LaPorte

“I’ve never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. 

The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us.” 

 

—	James Gleeson

"Pain doesn’t just show up in our lives for no reason. It’s a sign that something in our life needs to change."

Mandy Hale

I heard what you said.
I’m not the silly romantic you think.
I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars.
I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already.
I want…a steady hand. A kind soul.
I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe.
I want to love, and be loved.

Shana Abe

" There’s something between us - a sort of pull. Something you always do to me and I, to you. "

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Presumption

(Source: sexandsophistication)

" it’s a beautiful thing when the thirst for each other is mutual. "

- KEVINGETEM

(Source: kushandwizdom)

" you had her with your words,
and lost her with your actions. "

- iambrillyant (via wnq-writers)

“إذا تم العقل نقص الكلام
The smarter you get the less you speak” 

 

—	Arabic Proverb

" A wise man once said nothing. "

***

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” 

 

—	St. Francis of Assisi

I want to be with you

I want to be with you behind the scenes,
before coffee, before the sun,
when your hair is a fright and your skin is still dented by the mattress seam.
I want to touch you then,
when you’re prickly and unshaven,
when you’re half dressed, or less,
when you’re unmade and distracted and every bit yourself.
I want to see you getting yourself ready for others.
I want to live in that place.
I want to be with you, behind the scenes, knowing I’m not one of the others.

Peregrine

This is how we heal.

I will kiss you like forgiveness.
You will hold me like I’m hope.

Clementine von Radics,
Mouthful of Forevers

Sillage

" In order to change an existing paradigm you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. 

Rather, create a new model that makes the old one obsolete. "

- Buckminster Fuller

" When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. "

- Rumi

" No one is sent by accident to anyone. "

- A Course in Miracles

(Source: mysimplereminders)

" She reached up and kissed him on the lips. It was a small kiss. It lasted only two or three seconds, just long enough for him to taste the future. "

 

- Francisco X. Stork  
The Last Summer Of The Death Warriors

... a storm...

" A strong woman will
automatically stop trying
if she feels unwanted.
She won’t fix it or beg,
she’ll just walk away. "

" And for fuck’s sakes learn to say no. "

- Me to me

“If I have to ask for your attention, then I don’t even want it.”

"I suppose,“ she said after a long time, “it was surprising how quickly he forgot me.

“Because even though I didn’t believe he’d love me forever, I always thought he’d love me longer than that.”"

- S.Z. // Excerpt from a book I’ll never write #259

(Source: johnmarkgreenpoetry)

(Source: lanblake)

(Source: voodooprincessrn)

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❤ ~~~~~

I want our lives to touch
the way our minds do.

Marilyn Hacker,
The Dichotomy

I Love You!
You make me happy...
You make me feel special...
You're the sweetest person ever...
And I just love to be with you!

Mouthful of Forevers

I am not the first person you loved.
You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers.
We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin.
Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night.
Our love came when we’d given up on asking love to come.
I think that has to be part of its miracle. This is how we heal.
I will kiss you like forgiveness. You will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms will bandage and we will press promises between us like flowers in a book.
I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat on your skin.
I will write novels to the scar of your nose.
I will write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe the way it feels to have finally, finally found you. And I will not be afraid of your scars.
I know sometimes it’s still hard to let me see you in all your cracked perfection, but please know: whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun or the nights you collapse into my lap your body broken into a thousand questions, you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.


Clementine von Radics,
Mouthful of Forevers

Everyone wants a magical solution to their problem, and everyone refuses to believe in magic. 

— The Mad Hatter

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. 

Willa Sibert Cather.

Until you came along, I never knew how much I’d been missing. 
I never knew that a touch could be so meaningful or an expression so eloquent; 
I never knew that a kiss could literally take my breath away. 

Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven

" Focus is your most important tool. 

Where are you directing yours? "

- Leo Babauta (via shaktilover)

" Never really had a type... 

I just like the way I vibe with certain people. "

- Reyna Biddy

(Source: kushandwizdom)

" Just remember,
when you’re ignoring her,
you’re teaching her
to live without you. "

and be with her in meaningful ways

"Go after her.
Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call.
Go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign because it might never come.
Don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado.
There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do.
Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really."

Harvey Milk

"I hunt for the will that will let me let you go."

~ Christian Wiman

The strength of a man

The strength of a man
isn’t seen in the width
of his shoulders.
It’s seen in the width
of his arms that circle you..

The strength of a man
isn’t in the deep tone
of his voice.
It’s in the gentle
words he whispers…

The strength of a man
isn’t how many buddies he has.
It’s how good a buddy
he is with his kids…

The strength of a man isn’t
in how respected he is at work.
It’s in how respected
he is at home…

The strength of a man
isn’t in how hard he hits.
It’s in how tender
he touches…

The strength of a man
isn’t in the hair on his chest.
It’s in his Heart,
that lies within his chest…

The strength of a man
isn’t how many women he’s loved.
It’s in can he be
true to one woman…

The strength of a man
isn’t in the weight he can lift.
It’s in the burdens
he can carry…

Jacqueline Marie Griffiths

Enjoy it. Because it’s happening.


Stephen Chbosky

(Source: saalik)

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

Paulo Coelho

(Source: saalik)

You pull me out of this dark abyss

and light up my life.

Love...