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I can’t really put it into words; in any case I am not yet as honest with myself as I should be and it is always hard to get to the bottom of things with words.
Etty Hillesum, fom a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (via violentwavesofemotion)
It seems to me that the secret of life is to accept life. Question it as much as you live after, but first accept it. People to-day stand on the outskirts of the city wondering if they are for or against Life – is Life worth living – dare they risk it – what is Life – do they hate it or love it – but these cursed questions keep them on the outskirts of the city forever. It’s only by risking losing yourself, giving yourself up to Life, that you can ever find out the answer. Don’t think I’m sentimental. You know and I know how much evil there is, but all the same let’s live to the very uttermost, let’s live all our lives.
Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to J.M. Murry written c. January 1920 (via violentwavesofemotion)
I am full of unease, a strange, infernal agitation, which might be productive if only I knew what to do with it. A “creative” unease. Not of the body–not even a dozen passionate nights of love could assuage it. It is almost a “sacred” unease.
Etty Hillesum, fom a diary entry featured in An Interrupted Life: the Diaries, 1941-1943 and Letters from Westerbork (via violentwavesofemotion)
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in a single, solitary, even humble individual. For it is within the soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
Henry David Thoreau (via fuckyeahthoreau)
“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.”
- Hermann Hesse (via criminalwisdom)
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.
Howard Zinn, ‘A Power Governments Cannot Suppress’ (via scientificphilosopher)
All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life’s heart. But if in your fear you would seek only love’s peace and love’s pleasure, Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing floor, Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
Kahlil Gibran (via randomglory)
My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man’s sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not fear that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, ‘Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled.’ Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for all the sins of men. For indeed it is so, my friend, and the moment you make yourself sincerely responsible for everything and everyone, you will see at once that it is really so, that it is you who are guilty on behalf of all and for all. Whereas by shifting your own laziness and powerlessness onto others, you will end by sharing in Satan’s pride and murmuring against God.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamaozv (via randomglory)
The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.
Friedrich Nietzsche (via randomglory)
It all starts with love of yourself, first of all. Without that it is not possible to understand anyone else, not possible to love.
Andrei Tarkovsky, from a diary entry featured in Time Within Time; The Diaries (1970 - 1986)
Part of coming to know how we feel is having an audience that can be receptive to the truth about us. In the company of open-minded people, we circulate more freely in our own minds. We remember thoughts that the censoriousness or boredom of other companions had blocked. We become more receptive to ourselves.
Alain de Botton
Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.
Albert Einstein (via fyp-science)
For broken dreams, the cure is, dream again and deeper.
C.S. Lewis (via anabethmarie)
You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.
Anne Lamott (via feellng)
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving.
