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"Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you're tired. You look like you could go on forever."
-Leonard Cohen (singer and poet) |
Song of Autumn
by Kristina Tunisia I don't give a shit if I'm broken. I like being broken. I like being bitten fingernails cuticles like soil in a drought things a story of failure stomach the history of womanhood skin wrinkled and cut scarred scarred scarred my body is my garden and its brokenness makes it ready for planting. |
"Why it is that whenever a man takes you to lunch around here, you're the dessert."
Peggy Olson, season 1 episode 3 MadMen |
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
~ Maya Angelou |
"When you acknowledge the less than perfect parts of yourself, something magical begins to happen. Along with the negative, you'll also begin to notice the positive, the wonderful aspects of yourself that you may not have given yourself credit for, or perhaps even been aware of." --Richard Carlson |
"Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you--if you listen to it, you can play it." --Nido Qubein |
"What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future--a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin today to build my own truer and better world from within." --H. W. Dresser |
We are born wet, naked, and hungry. Then things get worse
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"The voice of the majority is no proof of justice,"
~ Friedrich von Schiller |
Diplomat: A person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~Caskie Stinett
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I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. ~Frank Moore Colby
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"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." --Marie Curie |
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." --Harvey Fierstein |
"Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves." --Sydney J. Harris |
to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting
e. e. cummings |
I am but merely a flame in your bonfire of passion. But mine shall never cease, for you are the wood to keep me burning, the life to sustain my existence.
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"La magia es un puente que te permite ir del mundo visible hacia el invisible. Y aprender las lecciones de ambos mundos." ~ Paulo Coelho
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Hurt people hurt people.
Healed people heal people. - Jacques Verduin quoting prisoners with whom he has worked - Audio Dharma podcast |
"You will make a lousy anybody else, but you will be the best "you" in existence." --Zig Ziglar |
"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay?" --Jim Rohn |
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