Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

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[Genesis]

We reinvent love by giving it a blank slate; a new beginning, an experience that has the ability to thrive in ways our expectations can’t harm it.
We need to forget about the guidelines that have taught us what love is and how we attain it, how we keep it, how we grow it.
Love is many different things, and people love in many different ways.
The beauty of love is that it is as unique as a fingerprint – it will never be made the same way twice, it will never exist between two people the way it did before, so we cannot anchor it in comparisons, we must let it thrive without boundary.

We reinvent love by giving it a voice, by breathing into it expression and communication.
Love needs a celebration of the goodness we find in another human being, in the moments that make our chests pound with excitement and enjoyment.
It needs vulnerability, softness, for we live in a world that wants to make love hard, and we allow it to when we withhold how we feel towards others, we allow it to when we let our fear of sensitivity rob our mouth of the words our heart wants to speak.
Shout your love from rooftops – do not be scared to express how happy someone makes you feel, let them know that they give you goosebumps, let them know that you want to try again.
Feel free within the wild beat that dances within you whenever you are with someone you adore, and let them know that they have created a song within you every chance you get.

We reinvent love by freeing it from instant gratification; by understanding that love is something that takes time and patience, by coming to terms with the fact that being alone is much more productive than sleeping beside the convenient bones of someone who will end up making you feel lonely.
It doesn’t matter how many times a day someone texts you, or if they grace you with a like on Instagram – do they take the time to be with you?
To hear your problems, your fears, to share theirs with you?
Do they take the time to be at your side when you need support, to lift you up when you deserve to be celebrated?
It takes ten seconds to send an image, or a sentence, or a like on social media.
It takes far much more effort to actually be present in someone’s life; we reinvent love by dedicating ourselves to that.

We reinvent love by choosing it.
Your ego isn’t going to make you breakfast in bed; your pride isn’t going to encourage you or wrap you in warm arms on the days you feel like giving up.
Yes, things are going to be tough at times.
The easy aspect of love is falling into it, but it takes courage to stay in love, it takes fearlessness to commit to love, for love is not easy.
Love is chaos, it is a natural disaster that will live inside of you like a cyclone.
But at the end of the day love is also the only peace you will ever know.
Love is the destroyer, but it is also the inventor; it is the storm, but it is also the shelter, and this is why we must choose it every single morning, this is why we must fight for it and believe in it even on its hardest days...

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[Genesis]

Nothing truly beautiful ever asks for attention.
This quote has stuck with me ever since I heard my coworker speak the words.
Nothing truly beautiful ever asks for attention – it just naturally exists, as it is, in confidence and boldness.

Remember this the next time you chase someone you think you love.
Remember this the next time you feel as if you need to compete for the attention of someone you admire.
Generationally speaking, we often feel the need to prove ourselves to the heart we regard.
We often feel the need to change ourselves to better suit their needs, we often wonder if we are exactly what they are looking for, or if they have other options.
I have heard the sentiment many times over, I have seen it dissect beautiful moments and sensationalize less than beautiful relationships.
Stop the “If onlys” and the “But maybes.”
Trust me when I say that those do not exist within the boundaries of the love you want.
They only exist within the reality of the love you chase.

The most awe-inspiring person I ever had the privilege of loving planted his feet firmly in front of me and said “This is what I want.”
There was courage, transparency. There was declaration.

There was no insecurity, there was no need to compare myself to others or compete.
The most awe-inspiring person I ever had the privilege of loving chose me every single day, and I chose him.
When that wasn’t the case, we parted ways.
We didn’t drag it out, we didn’t try to convince the other.
We didn’t feel the need to grip, and chase something that did not fulfill us or inspire us.
It was natural, and organic, and it allowed for me to feel deeply and confidently.
That is the kind of love you want.

Do not chase another human being.
Instead, chase your curiosity.
Chase your development and your goals.
Chase your passion.
Strive to work for something bigger than yourself, and instead of trying to convince someone that you fit within their world, strive to build your own.

Relationships are not melting pots. They are unions.
You walk into them with your own visions, your own hunger, and when you are confident in that, when you allow for that to thrive within you, you never break yourself down to appease the pursuit.
You simply exist, as you are, and when you meet someone who does as well, when you meet someone who chooses you within that, you thrive together, and that creates a dynamic that is ever growing and influential.

Nothing beautiful ever asks for attention. Let that be a testament.
The truly carnal relationship, the attraction, the pull to another human being – it simply survives. It flourishes.
It is the kind of beauty that lives within ribcages, that surges throughout bones, that you cannot explain, that allows you to “just know.”
It is never bred from contest; it is never bred from uncertainty.
You will never have to work to inspire it within someone, because it will simply exist within them.

[Orema]

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[Genesis]

Dance, when you're broken open.
Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting.
Dance in your blood.
Dance when you're perfectly free.
~ Rumi

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[Fancy]

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
~Eartha Kitt

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[Genesis]

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art–
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors–
No–yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever–or else swoon to death.

[Genesis]

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

There are many levels of love and each contains different layers
I have come to believe that if we are operating the way we were built to operate, there is a level of love we should feel for almost everyone we meet.

I’m not saying we should fall head over heels in hopeless love, surrendering our whole selves to every soul on the street. But I am saying that if we are living in a state of openness and acceptance of both ourselves and others, functioning from a lens of compassion and connection, then we will likely experience a type of love birthed from compassion, empathy, and kindness, for almost everyone we meet.

Believe it or not, that’s a good thing.

The thing is we are scared of love. Petrified. In fact, not only are we afraid of love as a feeling, we are also afraid of love as a word. We are scared of everything that word represents. We are afraid of vulnerability, of openness, of allowing others into ourselves and of diving into others.

Why? Because it costs us something to love that way. To live that way.

The cost of genuine love

Investing in other people in a genuine way costs us small pieces of ourselves. It requires something of us on a deeper level and most of the time, that is not a place people are comfortable living.

Relationships – genuine relationships – beg us to crack our hearts open, even if it’s just a little bit.

We are so desperate to connect with one another and to crawl out from behind the walls of isolation we’ve built; yet when faced with the opportunity, we hide from it. We keep each other at arms length most of the time. And, even in those relationships where we’ve reached a level beyond the surface, there’s a blockage we often hit because we only allow each other so deep.

Tuning into our own hearts

If we’re being honest, most of us aren’t even that good at tuning into our own hearts, much less anyone else’s. We tell ourselves a myriad of excuses for why we live this way, and while many of them are valid, they aren’t that convincing to me.

"I’m busy. I’m tired. I don’t have time. I’ve got too much of my own stuff going on. We don’t know each other well enough. They don’t care anyway."

We use these excuses — among others — to keep a safe distance between ourselves and everyone else. It works. Emotionally, it does seem safer to just worry about your own circle and not get too involved in anyone else’s. But is that really the safe route? Sure, it stops us from being hurt by others. But does it really? Do we not often feel hurt by someone else’s lack of investment in us, yet forget that we never actually invested in them either? Do we not feel lonely and alone, yet neglect to reach out from behind the walls of protection we’ve built?

Craving Intimacy

It seems to me that we are desperate for each other. Craving intimacy with other souls existing near us, yet we are so afraid of feeling anything that we don’t even give ourselves the chance.

In my opinion, the only way to truly connect with anyone is to open yourself up to the possibility. We have to first open our minds and allow ourselves to be vulnerable and exposed long enough to invite someone else to come along and enter into that space with us. If not, we will just continue playing emotional bumper cars with each other and never actually get anywhere.

We’ve become so accustomed to operating in our own bubbles, keeping everyone else on the periphery, that when we do encounter someone who has the capacity to slip inside our borders just a bit, we often shut it down. We question their authenticity. We are skeptical of their motives. And we allow our own insecurities, fears, and past hurts to overpower the potential for a genuine connection of any kind. That’s such a cheerless way to live.

We’ve lost it. Trying to develop bona-fide relationships and even truly trying to get to know someone now comes across as something too intense. We label those people crazy. Needy. Desperate. Weird. And we distance ourselves from them.

Particularly in the dating scene this theme exists. People mistake kindness for desire. I was recently told, “I think you’re in marriage mode and you just need to be in date mode.” While it’s true that my brain is more wired for long term commitment, I was simply trying to get to know the person. But people are so uncomfortable with below the surface communication that it apparently makes them feel like you want to marry them rather than get to know them.

I’ve also had genuine friendships with people in which it’s clear there’s a level of mutual love for each other; yet, when even the thought of the “L” word presents itself, it’s shut down in a New York minute.

There is no loss

We think that saying we love someone means something it isn’t allowed to mean. That if we give a genuine piece of ourselves, maybe we won’t ever get it back. But isn’t that the point of relationships? To give and receive levels of affection we simply cannot create alone?

Operating from that principle, we don’t lose anything by giving of ourselves. In fact, we have everything to gain. Yet living in this protective bubble of fear and resistance, we are creating the exact thing we dread: We are creating a world of solitude and disconnection where we watch each other from behind our glass walls but never really reach each other.

The fact is that loving others brings to the surface our own mortality. It reminds us that we could lose things. That we aren’t invincible and that our hearts really do beat and bleed. That’s painful.

Regardless of what level your heart operates in connection to certain people, we have to stop being afraid of love. In order to not fear love, we have to first not fear our own hearts. We have to first learn to trust ourselves and crack the window to our own souls before it will ever feel safe to let someone else in.

Until we figure out that piece, I don’t think we will ever get the kind of love and fulfillment in relationships (of any kind) we truly desire...

[Fancy]

If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
Caitlin Moran

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[Genesis]

You are not for everyone. There are poems within you that people will not be able to handle, storms surging through your bones that young men and women will never be able to weather.

See, you have a love inside of you that will ooze from your very veins like honey on a hot day and you will never be able to stop it. You’re going to fall deeply in love with the wrong world – the kind of world young girls dream of, the kind of world where people say how they feel and love whom they love. You will forever be attached to the deep parts of those you tangle yourself within, though they will never get their hands dirty long enough to uncover the treasure that hums within your dancing pulse.
You are going to be misunderstood in the way you care, for you will love people not for what is obvious within them, but for what is hidden beneath their masks. You are not going to revel in their freckles, you will not compliment the hues within their eyes. You are going to live for the way they breathe in the cold December air, watching as their chest rises and falls like your very heartbeat. You are going to live for the way their pupils dilate when they talk about something they are truly passionate about, when their cheeks flush from a compliment or the unexpected brush of your foot against their leg.
No, you are not for everyone. You are never going to be able to stop yourself from screaming your love from rooftops, you will never be able to play it cool. You are the kind of person who will worry about the strangers you see in grocery stores, the kind of person who will stay up at night wondering about your fifth grade crush, hoping that the sun is setting beautifully wherever they rest their head.

For that, I hope you protect yourself.
I hope that you do not let the world condemn you for being too loud, too expressive, too soft; that you do not let it convince you to be perfect instead of real. I truly hope that you celebrate the fact that you are not for everyone, that you are not impressing the kinds of people who were built on the foundations of a sad world. If there is anything you do, please, let yourself rejoice in the fact that you do not fit in, that you think differently, because there is a chaos that laughs inside of you and it is going to change lives. It is going to make even the cynics believe again. It is going to grow love from thorn and glass.

[Fancy]

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

-Ellen Key
(12/11/1849 - 4/25/1926)

[Nat]

"You feel the need to see clearly. But your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes."

Carl Jung, Letters, I, page 33, 22 October 1916

[Genesis]

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you in my heart.
I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had and lift you like a prayer to the sky.
~ Rumi

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[Orema]

All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patroitism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. —Hermann Goering, leading member of Nazi Party, in an interview during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, April 18, 1946.

[Jesse]

“In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations.”� ~ Iroquois Maxim

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“When the Earth is ravaged and the animals are dying, a new tribe of people shall come onto the Earth of many colors, creeds and classes, and by their actions and deeds shall make the Earth green again. They shall be known as the warriors of the rainbow.”� ~ Hopi

[Angeltoes]

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[Angeltoes]

In all your intercourse with the natives treat them in the most friendly & conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit; allay all jealousies as to the object of your journey, satisfy them as of its innocence.

Thomas Jefferson, Instructions to Meriwether Lewis, June 20, 1803

[Orema]

What kind of police do you call on the police? —17-year-old victim who testified about her rape by Officer Daniel Holtzclaw

[Genesis]

Loves is where compassion prevails and kindness rules...

[Genesis]

Through Love all that is bitter will sweet.
Through Love all that is copper will be gold.
Through Love all dregs will turn to purest wine.
Through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
Through Love the dead will all become alive.
Through Love the king will turn into a slave!
~ Rumi

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[Bubala]

Pain
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[Fancy]

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
~Zora Neale Hurston

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[Genesis]

Understand that there will never be a perfect time, a perfect way, to fall in love or out of love, but you must do it.
You must. Tell the people who mean something to you that you care, hold them closely at night, and let them go if you cannot hold them any longer.
Let those who walk away, walk away.
Do not use them as emotional crutches, do not lure them back with memory and experience.
Let them go if you do not love them the way you know you are capable of loving.

Cry when you need to cry, feel everything you need to feel within the body that you hold because you are allowed to be sad, you are allowed to feel deeply about the things that happen to you, about the people who leave.
People will tell you to stop, people will tell you to get over it and to move on, but you – you must cry.
You must come to terms with it, you must experience the hurt, because if you don’t it will own you.

Do not wear your body like an apology.
Wear it proudly. Be in awe of your form for what it is, for where it gets you, for what it allows you to feel and do.
Love your legs not for their size, but for the mountains they have scaled, for the miles they have walked.
Love your eager eyes not for their colour, or their shape, but for what they have allowed you to see, what they have turned into poetry for you.

Remember that right now you are someone who is living and breathing, someone who sees those who are sick and those who are dying as if they aren’t a reflection of you yourself.
You grieve over them, you are sad for them, but you must realize that you are exactly like them, for we are all dying, we are all sick.
We are all experiencing fatality in different ways, because life is a ticking time bomb it isn’t a grandfather clock.
It moves quickly, it is not gradual. You do not have any moments to waste.

By no means do I have all of the wisdom in the world, by no means do I have the answers, but I do know that you should dance in antique shops, even if you have two left feet.
You should go on roadtrips with the person you admire and you should kiss their neck and hold their hand with every mile that you chronicle.
You should make love as loudly as you want, as often as you want.
You should sit in your favourite park for hours on end; you should buy yourself flowers just because it is Tuesday.

You should,
you must,
above all else,
make your life your own...

[JDeere]

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde

[Fancy]

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.
-Trump

Ew. Ew. and EW.
:eek:

Someone needs to give that man a roll of duct tape.

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

Maybe you need to write a poem about grace.

When everything broken is broken,
and everything dead is dead,
and the hero has looked into the mirror with complete contempt,
and the heroine has studied her face and its defects
remorselessly, and the pain they thought might,
as a token of their earnestness, release them from themselves
has lost its novelty and not released them,
and they have begun to think, kindly and distantly,
watching the others go about their days—
likes and dislikes, reasons, habits, fears—
that self-love is the one weedy stalk
of every human blossoming, and understood,
therefore, why they had been, all their lives,
in such a fury to defend it, and that no one—
except some almost inconceivable saint in his pool
of poverty and silence—can escape this violent, automatic
life’s companion ever, maybe then, ordinary light,
faint music under things, a hovering like grace appears.

As in the story a friend told once about the time
he tried to kill himself. His girl had left him.
Bees in the heart, then scorpions, maggots, and then ash.
He climbed onto the jumping girder of the bridge,
the bay side, a blue, lucid afternoon.
And in the salt air he thought about the word “seafood,”
that there was something faintly ridiculous about it.
No one said “landfood.” He thought it was degrading to the rainbow perch
he’d reeled in gleaming from the cliffs, the black rockbass,
scales like polished carbon, in beds of kelp
along the coast—and he realized that the reason for the word
was crabs, or mussels, clams. Otherwise
the restaurants could just put “fish” up on their signs,
and when he woke—he’d slept for hours, curled up
on the girder like a child—the sun was going down
and he felt a little better, and afraid. He put on the jacket
he’d used for a pillow, climbed over the railing
carefully, and drove home to an empty house.

There was a pair of her lemon yellow panties
hanging on a doorknob. He studied them. Much-washed.
A faint russet in the crotch that made him sick
with rage and grief. He knew more or less
where she was. A flat somewhere on Russian Hill.
They’d have just finished making love. She’d have tears
in her eyes and touch his jawbone gratefully. “God,”
she’d say, “you are so good for me.” Winking lights,
a foggy view downhill toward the harbor and the bay.
“You’re sad,” he’d say. “Yes.” “Thinking about Nick?”
“Yes,” she’d say and cry. “I tried so hard,” sobbing now,
“I really tried so hard.” And then he’d hold her for a while—
Guatemalan weavings from his fieldwork on the wall—
and then they’d fuck again, and she would cry some more,
and go to sleep.
And he, he would play that scene
once only, once and a half, and tell himself
that he was going to carry it for a very long time
and that there was nothing he could do
but carry it. He went out onto the porch, and listened
to the forest in the summer dark, madrone bark
cracking and curling as the cold came up.

It’s not the story though, not the friend
leaning toward you, saying “And then I realized—,”
which is the part of stories one never quite believes.
I had the idea that the world’s so full of pain
it must sometimes make a kind of singing.
And that the sequence helps, as much as order helps—
First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing...

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[Fancy]

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

-Robert Brault

[Genesis]

My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our world now. Ours is a time of almost daily astonishment and often righteous rage over the latest degradations of what matters most to civilized, visionary people.

You are right in your assessments. The lustre and hubris some have aspired to while endorsing acts so heinous against children, elders, everyday people, the poor, the unguarded, the helpless, is breathtaking. Yet, I urge you, ask you, gentle you, to please not spend your spirit dry by bewailing these difficult times. Especially do not lose hope. Most particularly because, the fact is that we were made for these times. Yes. For years, we have been learning, practicing, been in training for and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

I grew up on the Great Lakes and recognize a seaworthy vessel when I see one. Regarding awakened souls, there have never been more able vessels in the waters than there are right now across the world. And they are fully provisioned and able to signal one another as never before in the history of humankind.

Look out over the prow; there are millions of boats of righteous souls on the waters with you. Even though your veneers may shiver from every wave in this stormy roil, I assure you that the long timbers composing your prow and rudder come from a greater forest. That long-grained lumber is known to withstand storms, to hold together, to hold its own, and to advance, regardless.

In any dark time, there is a tendency to veer toward fainting over how much is wrong or unmended in the world. Do not focus on that. There is a tendency, too, to fall into being weakened by dwelling on what is outside your reach, by what cannot yet be. Do not focus there. That is spending the wind without raising the sails.

We are needed, that is all we can know. And though we meet resistance, we more so will meet great souls who will hail us, love us and guide us, and we will know them when they appear. Didn't you say you were a believer? Didn't you say you pledged to listen to a voice greater? Didn't you ask for grace? Don't you remember that to be in grace means to submit to the voice greater?

Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any small, calm thing that one soul can do to help another soul, to assist some portion of this poor suffering world, will help immensely. It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good.

What is needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take everyone on Earth to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these - to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.

Struggling souls catch light from other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
There will always be times when you feel discouraged. I too have felt despair many times in my life, but I do not keep a chair for it. I will not entertain it. It is not allowed to eat from my plate.

The reason is this: In my uttermost bones I know something, as do you. It is that there can be no despair when you remember why you came to Earth, who you serve, and who sent you here. The good words we say and the good deeds we do are not ours. They are the words and deeds of the One who brought us here. In that spirit, I hope you will write this on your wall: When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

By Clarissa Pinkola Estes

American poet, post-trauma specialist and Jungian psychoanalyst, author of Women Who Run With the Wolves.

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[Jesse]

“One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.”
― Henry Ford

[homoe]

“Nothing ventured, nothing gained" Benjamin Franklin

[Fancy]

"Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise."
~Abby Wambach

“One hundred year old trees still recycle themselves and come out with new flowers. Recycle yourself. Know that nature gives you the clues to living.”
~ Tao Porchon-Lynch (96 yo yoga teacher)

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[Genesis]

I come to you without me ,
come to me without you.
Self is the thorn in the sole of the soul.
Merge with others.
If you stay in self , you are a grain , you are a drop.
If you merge with others ,
you are an ocean , you are a mine.
~ Rumi

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[Shystonefem]

Every relationship nurtures a strength or a weakness within you.

~M. Murdock

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[Genesis]

Live to learn to love.
Learn to love to live.
Love to live to learn
so that you may live the life that you yearn.
~ Rico Dasheem

[Genesis]

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[Kätzchen]

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people
not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Doug Larson

[Jesse]

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[Fancy]

"My childhood was very difficult. I had every childhood disease and then some, but my parents didn't mollycoddle me. They left me to fight those battles on my own. I guess that was very Canadian, very stoic. But it's good. I had to become a warrior. I had to give up hope and find a substitute for hope that would be far more stable."

-Joni Mitchell

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[Genesis]

"I've learned in my life.. not to chase happy...
but instead chase what you love... live what you love.
Take what you love in moderation and give it back in moderation,
leaving samples for yourself alone the way...” -W.C....”

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[Fancy]

Expectations are resentments under construction.

— Anne Lamott

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Some days need a little extra surrender.
A little more leaning away from expectation and into acceptance;
both for what is and who we find ourselves to be that day.
The art of it is to see the beauty that's there through the clouds.
For just as the sun is never gone, just obscured from view now and again,
beauty is there to be found, even when our heavy hearts blind us to it.
Just be...breathe....shower yourself in self-love and compassion,
and open your eyes. See there...now let it in, allow today,
and yourself to just be. This is such a day for me, we all have them...
go gentle on yourself. You are so very loved.

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[Genesis]

“I know people have lost trust, but you can’t lose trust in life and not lose trust in yourself.
We have to remain willing to do whatever is required
when it is required to get what it is that we desire for ourselves,
for our community, for our children.
We give up way too soon. We stop marching, we stop asking, we stop promoting those values and principles.
You can’t give up hope in America without giving up hope in yourself.
So I would say, keep doing what is required.”
- Iyanla Vanzant

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[Genesis]

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of [her] heart,
and that depends upon how much [she] has polished it.
Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to [her].

~ Rumi

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[Fancy]

I love winter. The bugs are dead, and the people are indoors.

– Dennis Ruane

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[Genesis]

Here’s to the gritty, truth-seeking goddesses who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.

Here’s to the brave, badass females who have blasted through a nightmare of shit to be standing here today.

Here’s to the earthy mamas who think stilettos are a sick f*cking joke—

The luscious ladies who love feeling the raw earth beneath their bare feet, and bow down proudly to the supple, winding curves of their thick, fleshy hips.

Here’s to the creative vixens who breathe their sun-soaked, moonlit, windswept, star-dusted dreams to life, every damn day—rain or shine.

Here’s to the wise women who, time and time again, have chosen their own hearts.

I applaud you, with every fiber of my being. I honor you.

I am you.

We are strong and confusing, complicated and powerful, magical and maddening—we are meant for so much more.

We will never be happy stuffed in a sparkling white kitchen with a floral apron, a sleek bun, and carefully applied pink liquid lipstick to complete the wax mask of our fake smiles, playing the role of perfect wife or perfect girlfriend or perfect mother.

Our hearts will choke. Our spirits will scream.

We will never be happy sitting in a grey office working 9 to 5, watching the clock tick slowly, while our souls shrivel to the buzzing sound of fluorescent lights, unable to breathe in the fresh, muddy scent of gusty winds and the frantic, jeweled sweetness of budding cherry blossoms.

We will never be okay sipping champagne, trying on haute couture, and talking about ways to make our asses skinny and recipes for dinner parties and how to get a man to love us.

We don’t really give a damn about any of that—

We want to talk about soul. About dripping truth. About magic. About death. About struggle. About the world’s heartbreaking pain.

We wanna stand in the billowing breeze and decipher wise whispers of the wind as it roars through each singing strand of our thirsty, messy hair.

Yes.

But, for a painfully long time, we have denied who we really are.

We have tried and tried and tried to squeeze our wild wings and paint-splattered hearts into the cramped plastic molds of what we “should” be.

How miraculously we have failed.

Why do we rip ourselves up into sad, feathery pieces, trying so hard to slide into pretty little lives that, quite frankly, don’t even appeal to us?

Normal won’t cut it—extraordinary is what we’re here for.

We are meant to merge with the moon, cry with the rain, rise with the tides, and shine with every goddamn slice of shimmering yellow sun.

We are meant to run through crowded streets, with love in our hearts and tangerine scarves streaming through our fingertips as we dance to the sobbing drum of the world’s crying tears.

We are meant to make art that grows gritty wings and inspires sad, closed hearts to break the fuck open.

We are meant to stick out our tongues in a fierce lion’s breath in the most unexpected moments—

Rawwwr!

Our dreams and visions and destinies must come first.

Always.

Because we aren’t here to play small; to be polite, people-pleasing pretty plastic barbie dolls with empty, lifeless hearts—we are here to make waves, to chase dreams, to stand in the blazing fires of truth—and we know it.

We are here to live from the harrowing depths of our souls.

Why deny it anymore?

Let’s reach inside our supple skin and taste the thick river of bubbling magic that pulses through our veins like rubies.

Let’s shed the suffocating lives that were never meant to be ours—the lives we’ve brainwashed ourselves into tolerating, but are slowing killing our souls.

It’s time to burn, baby, burn!

Let’s make a pact with our hearts—a vow to listen that inner spark of magic, of truth, of delicious fire that cannot be denied for a minute more.

Let us promise now—

To honor who we really are.

To be forces of light, of love, of sacred power.

To let our star-dust spirits rise—and soar and soar and soar!

Extraordinary flows through our veins. Normal won’t cut it.

We are meant for so much more.

Badass, truth-lovin’, dream-weaving sisters, let’s stop smacking our spirits down and squeezing ourselves into suffocating roles that will never satisfy our thirsty, roaring souls—

We won’t fit.

We aren’t meant to.

Our wings won’t slide through small doors. We are meant for so much more—

Our dreams and visions and destinies must come first.

Always.

Please, answer the rain-drenched, whispering wolf calls of your wild soul.

Do not let your wings lie sticky and suffocated, in a sad clump on the floor.

Do not let your vibrant spirit wither into a colorless grey existence.

Do not let your jeweled destiny lie dormant and dead.

Do not live the life you think you “should.”

Fuck should—

Live the life that makes your heart beat louder, the life that sets your bones sweetly on fire, the life you can’t stand not living—

Answer the blossoming calls of your wild soul!

Go, now—

Into the lush, emerald forest of who you really are.

Find yourself.

Discover your gifts.

Share your gritty magic with the world.

Follow the promising path of your courageous destiny.

Go—

Now.

Do not settle for an empty half-life.

Do not settle for good enough.

Do not settle for anything less than exquisite or extraordinary.

Oh, sweet wise, wild woman—do not settle—

At all...

[Genesis]

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[Bubala]

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[Angeltoes]

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[JDeere]

We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love. ~Robert Fulghum, True Love

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
~William Shakespeare, Mid-Summer Night's Dream, 1595

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

Sandra Day O'Connor

[Genesis]

I will be waiting here.
For your silence to break
For your soul to shake
For your love to wake.

~ Rumi

[Bubala]

http://pintast.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/accept-your-loneliness-quote-1406096633gk8n4.jpg

[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Bubala]

"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self." Brendan Behan

[Bubala]

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

To dance, put your hand on your heart
and listen to the sound of your soul...

~ Luigi

[Kätzchen]

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way,” ― Charles Bukowski

[Genesis]

I was dead
I came alive
I was tears
I became laughter
All because of love
when it arrived
my temporal life
from then on
changed to eternal
Love said to me
you are not
crazy enough
you don't
fit this house
I went and
became crazy
crazy enough
to be in chains
Love said
you are not
intoxicated enough
you don't
fit the group
I went and
got drunk
drunk enough
to overflow
with light-headedness
Love said
you are still
too clever
filled with
imagination and skepticism
I went and
became gullible
and in fright
pulled away
from it all
Love said
you are a candle
attracting everyone
gathering every one
around you
I am no more
a candle spreading light
I gather no more crowds
and like smoke
I am all scattered now
Love said
you are a teacher
you are a head
and for everyone
you are a leader
I am no more
not a teacher
not a leader
just a servant
to your wishes
Love said
you already have
your own wings
I will not give you
more feathers
And then my heart
pulled itself apart
and filled to the brim
with a new light
overflowed with fresh life
Now even the heavens
are thankful that
because of love
I have become
the giver of light.

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

I am so close, I may look distant.
So completely mixed with you, I may look separate.
So out in the open, I appear hidden.
So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

You were born with potential
You were born with goodness and trust
You were born with ideals and dreams
You were born with greatness
You were born with wings
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings
Learn to use them, and fly.

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Bubala]

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[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

There is a candle in your heart,
ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don’t you?
You feel the separation
from the Beloved.
Invite Her to fill you up,
embrace the fire.
Remind those who tell you otherwise that
Love
comes to you of its own accord,
and the yearning for it
cannot be learned in any school.

- Rumi

[Genesis]

"Through your awakening, you awaken others."
- Solara An-Ra

[Genesis]

“There are darknesses in life and there are lights,
and you are one of the lights,
the light of all lights...”

- Bram Stoker, Dracula

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"Dogs are our link to paradise.
They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden,
where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”

- Milan Kundera

[Genesis]

Love is like a rose,
when it blossoms it's so new and fresh.
Each petal is so beautiful and soft.
Each petal holds something special,
the good times, the bad times, the times we wished never happened and the time that have yet to be written.
Roses can come and go, but you only get one true love of your life and that true love is you.
Always has been, always will be...

- Phil Panebianco

[Bubala]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious.
If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door.
If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door.
If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

Bill Watterson

[Orema]

https://stuffeyefind.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/img_0810.jpg?w=676

[Orema]

There really is no mode of empathy that can replicate the daily strain of knowing that as a black person you can be killed simply for being black.
—Claudia Rankine

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

http://cdn.powerofpositivity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/promise-yourself.jpg

[Genesis]

"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

- Carl Jung

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"There is no right or wrong path.
There is only the path that you choose.
Whatever you choose, there will be many opportunities for you to grow and expand."

- Kuan Yin

[Genesis]

“Look at a tree, a flower, a plant.
Let your awareness rest upon it.
How still they are, how deeply rooted in ‘just being’.
Allow nature to teach you stillness.
When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself."

- Eckhart Tolle

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Angeltoes]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

Love cannot be described,
It must be tasted.
~ Rumi

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

To live content with small means;
to seek elegance rather than luxury,
and refinement rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich;
to listen to stars and birds,
babes and sages, with open heart;
to study hard;
to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently,
await occasions, hurry never;
in a word, to let the spiritual,
unbidden and unconscious,
grow up through the common
..this is my symphony.

-William Ellery Channing

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

When love is not accepted move on;
when love is not appreciated walk away;
hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

~ Rumi

[Fancy]

I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs them terribly.


Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

[Bèsame*]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

Who is in the house of my heart,
I cried in the middle of the night.
Love said,
"It is I, but what are all these images that fill your
house?"
I said, they are the reflection of Your beautiful Face.
Love asked,
"But what is this image full of pain?"
I said, it is me lost in the sorrows of life
and showed Love my soul full of wounds.
Love offered me one end of a thread and said:
"Take it so I can pull you back,
but do not break the delicate string."
I reached towards it but Love struck my hand.
I asked, why the harshness?
Love said,
"To remind you that whoever comes to Love's holy space
proud and full of himself,
will be sent away.
Look at Love with the eyes of your heart.

~ Rumi

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

"I'm sorry if I seem uninterested
Or I'm not listenin' or I'm indifferent
Truly, I ain't got no business here
But since my friends are here
I just came to kick it but really
I would rather be at home all by myself not in this room
With people who don't even care about my well being"

Song lyrics from Here by Alessia Cara

[deathbypoem]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

“If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

[Genesis]

"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.
You trade in your reality for a role.
You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask."

- Jim Morrison

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

http://lessonslearnedinlife.com/wp-content/uploads/A-good-woman.-640x624.jpg

[Genesis]

Love is what gives joy to all creation.

~ Rumi

[Angeltoes]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e5/41/51/e541515c6f600b884501c31227730fe4.jpg

[betruetoyoursoul]

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[Angeltoes]

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[betruetoyoursoul]

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[betruetoyoursoul]

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[betruetoyoursoul]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Fancy]

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

[Genesis]

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[Orema]

I knew I was good, but I didn't know I was that good.

—Carole King after hearing Aretha Franklin sing the song she'd written, "Natrual Woman," for the first time.

[BullDog]

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

(I don't know who to attribute that one to, but it definitely feels true to me)

[Lecheloco]

Hold fast to dreams...For if dreams die...Life is a broken-winged bird...That cannot fly."........Langston Hughes

[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

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[Genesis]

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off.
In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."
- Lord Byron

[Genesis]

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[Lecheloco]

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
― C. JoyBell C.

[Lecheloco]

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
― Albert Einstein

[Lecheloco]

“The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively”
― Bob Marley

[Orema]

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