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“ - When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there.

  - But it is still there.

  - Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth.

  - Sooner or later, that debt is paid. “

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”

— Dalai Lama XIV (via naturaekos)

“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am, and what I need, is something I have to find out myself.”

— Chinua Achebe (via amargedom)

““It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.””

— Theodore Roosevelt (via amargedom)

Iconic scene.

All About the Benjamins (2002)

““You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.””

— Mary Oliver (via amargedom)

“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I’m one of them.”

— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (via goodreadss)

“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.”

— Franki Durbin (via perrfectly)

“Empathy then is a scale where we make distinctions between feeling, responding and reacting. An intention that needs setting and resetting on a regular basis. A thermostat for our emotions states, if you will. It is not an automatic reaction but a choice; a choice we make not just when convenient but also when we are unsure but would want to appeal to our best selves as opposed to being steered by our own more rabid versions. Yes, calling out problematic incidents and behaviours is crucial but let us not be swept by the same toxicity of individual blame v/s systemic power structures when vilifying rank unknowns. This needs a moment of pause, a slight turn inwards (in-feeling) before judgment, theatrics and refusal.”

— Scherezade Siobhan, A Failure of Empathy (Published at Medium)

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“Dreams feel real while we’re in them. It’s only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”

— Inception (via amortizing)

“They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.”

— Kahlil Gibran (via goodreadss)

Daily reminder!

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

— Dalai Lama (via goodreadss)

““Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.””

— Albert Einstein

“Imagination is universe’s silent reality”

S.S.K

“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”

—  Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via amortizing)

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