Quotes, Poems, & Sayings...

[Genesis]

[Genesis]

[Genesis]

[Genesis]

Sorrow prepares you for joy.
It violently sweeps everything out of your house,
so that new joy can find space to enter.
It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart,
so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place.
It pulls up the rotten roots,
so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow.
Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart,
far better things will take their place.

~ Rumi

[girl_dee]

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[Genesis]

“Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.”

—Theodore Roosevelt

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“Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”

—Harvey Fierstein

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“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd.
The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before.”

—Albert Einstein

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“There isn’t a way things should be.
There’s just what happens, and what we do.”

—Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

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[Genesis]

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"You are more than your thoughts, your body or your feelings.
You are a swirling vortex of limitless potential who is here to shake things up
and create something new that the universe has never seen."

- Dr. Richard Bartlett

[Genesis]

QUEST

Take me past
the guarded place
in you
where confusion
covers itself
in unrelenting confidence
then marches on
In lively steps
Take off the façade
let it fall away
into nowhere
Turn around and face me
I search the infinite depth
where beyond all entrenchments
I find your thirst
to be met
and understood
the sadness in your bones,
the want of your silent cries
to be heard
and be known—
abiding within those
unseen landscapes
is a world of precious
dreams
Let me touch where
the battle wounds
lie quietly healing—
Buried beneath
an armored sheath
rests a lifetime of love
and loneliness,
blame and triumph,
honor and defeat
Within this blended web
of scars and treasures,
glistening with honesty,
there you are—
I found you,
beneath the soldier’s plated heart
So loosen the knots around my own
see all its agony bared and mending
and in between each open space
we’ll breathe upon the frailty
All the wishful longings to be had
bring to me yours
as I meet you there with mine.

~by Susan Frybort.

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“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” ― Mo Willems.

You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t find yourself in.
You’re allowed to leave any story you don’t love yourself in.

You’re allowed to leave a city that has dimmed your light instead of making you shine brighter,
you’re allowed to pack all your bags and start over somewhere else and you’re allowed to redefine the meaning of your life.

You’re allowed to quit the job you hate even if the world tells you not to and
you’re allowed to search for something that makes you look forward to tomorrow and to the rest of your life.

You’re allowed to leave someone you love if they’re treating you poorly,
you’re allowed to put yourself first if you’re settling and
you’re allowed to walk away when you’ve tried over and over again but nothing has changed.

You’re allowed to let toxic friends go, you’re allowed to surround yourself with love, and people who encourage and nurture you.
You’re allowed to pick the kind of energy you need in your life.

You’re allowed to forgive yourself for your biggest and smallest mistakes and you’re allowed to be kind to yourself,
you’re allowed to look in the mirror and actually like the person you see.
You’re allowed to set yourself free from your own expectations.

We sometimes look at leaving as a bad thing or associate it with giving up or quitting,
but sometimes leaving is the best thing you can do for yourself.

Leaving allows you to change directions, to start over, to rediscover yourself and the world.
Leaving sometimes saves you from staying stuck in the wrong place with the wrong people.

Leaving opens a new door for change, growth, opportunities and redemption.

You always have the choice to leave until you find where you belong and what makes you happy.

You’re even allowed to leave the old you behind and reinvent yourself...

By Rania Naim

[Genesis]

Just living is not enough...
one must have sunshine,
freedom,
and a little flower...
-Anderson

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“Listen to the inner light; it will guide you.
Listen to inner peace; it will feed you.
Listen to inner love; it will transform you, it will divinise you, it will immortalise you.”

- Sri Chinmoy

[kittygrrl]

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"Through your awakening, you awaken others."

- Solara An-Ra