دیگران را ببخش، نه به خاطر اینکه لایق بخششند، به خاطر اینکه تو لایق آرامشی
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
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Either the sense of wonder leads them down an analytic path, or it leads them to simple contemplation. Either way the sense of wonder is the first fact of life, but the paths are completely different in every other way. The analyst, or the scientist, moved to reveal by explaining, breaks apart the image, and the sense of wonder, focusing sequentially on the pieces. The contemplator, or artist, moved to reveal by simply looking, keeps the image and the sense of wonder whole. The artist contrives to keep the attention riveted without fragmentation, by means of high trickery. This trickery involves transmuting the image into human speech-whether a literary, plastic, or musical form of speech-thus fixing in place forever the sense of wonder
— On Doctoring, Melvin Konner (via lungpeiling)
Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
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Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
— Dalai Lama XIV (via kari-shma)
Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.
— Robert Brault (via jinsei)
(Source: creatingaquietmind)
不管手上有好或壞牌，還是要玩
It doesn’t matter if life gave you good or bad cards, you still have to play
— my dad, on suicide (via lungpeiling)
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.
— Brad Meltzer (via saddest-summer)
I got my reasons to live, I’ve worked to figure out what they are, and I’m not just handing them over to you…. If you wanna tap out ‘cuz your life is sh*t, ya know what, it’s not your life, it’s life … Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that. Life isn’t something that you possess, it’s something that you take part in.
— Louie C. K.
Discontent is the first necessity to progress.
— Thomas A. Edison
Only the things you do have real, lasting value, not the things you get for the things you do.
— I Wrote This For You, http://www.iwrotethisforyou.me/ (via lungpeiling)
It must be said that the starting point is respect for oneself. One can achieve anything, but not everything; so one must know what it is one desires.
-How can we know what we desire?
When we feel well after carrying out a certain task. Consequently, everything which causes us to lose our enthusiasm and self respect, is harmful; even if it means power, money or success.
— Warrior of Light, Paulo Coehlo (via lungpeiling)
“We’re so young. We’re so young. We’re twenty-two years old. We have so much time. There’s this sentiment I sometimes sense, creeping in our collective conscious as we lay alone after a party, or pack up our books when we give in and go out – that it is somehow too late. That others are somehow ahead. More accomplished, more specialized. More on the path to somehow saving the world, somehow creating or inventing or improving. That it’s too late now to BEGIN a beginning and we must settle for continuance, for commencement. What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it’s too late to do anything is comical. It’s hilarious. We’re graduating college. We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.”—
Marina Keegan
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/may/27/keegan-opposite-loneliness/
5. You’ll question every decision you make and never feel completely certain that you made the right choice. It’s pointless to wonder though. You’re here now so you might as well make it be the right decision.
— 25 Things I’ve Learned In My Twenties (via 365rulesforpremeds)
(Source: soybeanchen)
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
— Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (via parkstepp)
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
— Henry David Thoreau
