Compassion
 

Have compassion for everyone you meet
even if they don't want it. What seems conceit,
bad manners, or cynicism is always a sign
of things no ears have heard, no eyes have seen.
You do not know what wars are going on
down there where the spirit meets the bone.

~Miller Williams

We loved with a love that was more than love.--Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.--Laurence Sterne

The most damaging aspect of abuse is the trauma to our hears and souls from being betrayed by the people we love and trust.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun with nettles. ~Horace Walpole, letter to the Countess of Ailesbury, 1779 July 10th


No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recesses of another mind. ~Arnold Bennett


It’s hard to make up your bed while you’re still sleeping in it. Hard to make up your mind for the same reason. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won’t be someone else. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Vulnerability
 

Vulneratility is …

… asking for help
… saying “I don’t know.”
… sitting with your wife and making decisions about your kids when she has stage 4 cancer
… calling a good friend whose child was killed in a car accident
… loving someone who is struggling with addiction
… being promoted and not knowing if you’re up for it
… getting fired
… initiating sex with your partner
… taking responsibility for a mistake

Vulnerability is not a sign of weakness. Vulnerability is letting ourselves be seen.

Vulnerability is our most accurate measure of courage.

—from The Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown.

Wise men talk because they have something to say

Fools because they have to say something

Plato

Love this one
 

Having courage does not mean we are unafraid.
Having courage and showing courage mean, we face our fears.
We are able to say, I have fallen, but I will get up.

Maya Angelou

Standing up for yourself isn't about changing the other person. It's about honoring your self worth.

Luke 6:45
 

A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

― George Eliot

“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.”

Mary Tyler Moore quotes

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

Tom Robbins quote

“There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others”
rainstormsong
Tom Robbins quote

“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
Katiesays
Tom Robbins quote

"Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can’t see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path. Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want."
~ Shams Tabrizi

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Thought about someone when I read this. She knows who she is ;-)

New Love and Relationship.....
 

A new broom sweeps clean~~~