Inspirations

Collections of things to think about, to ponder and to wonder...

[sirlonius]

[quotemadness]

It is remarkable how much courage it takes to kiss someone, even when you are almost certain that person would very much like to be kissed by you.

Mackenzi Lee

[cristalplanetheart]

[photographss-world]

Bu sabah şu denizi kirala

Mavi mavi hatırlayalım birbirimizi...

Haydar Ergülen

[radical-revolution]

[quotemadness]

“Because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”

— Anne Frank

[woundgallery]

We know the pain we feel after a loss will continue; it will also remain inconsolable, and we will never find a replacement. No matter what we do, the pain is always there. That’s the way it should be. It’s the only way to perpetuate a love we don’t want to give up. --Freud

[beljar]

There is a theory that watching unbearable stories about other people lost in grief and rage is good for you—may cleanse you of your darkness. Do you want to go down to the pits of yourself all alone? Not much. What if an actor could do it for you? Isn’t that why they are called actors? They act for you. You sacrifice them to action. And this sacrifice is a mode of deepest intimacy of you with your own life. Within it you watch [yourself] act out the present or possible organization of your nature. You can be aware of your own awareness of this nature as you never are at the moment of experience. The actor, by reiterating you, sacrifices a moment of his own life in order to give you a story of yours.

Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, -416 (translated by Anne Carson)

[quotemadness]

“I believe that kindness is the universal language. When someone does something kind it is understood despite language barriers or cultural differences. We should really communicate with kindness more often.”

— Devin Patrick

[samxcamargo]

I know you’re feeling low and you can’t feel all of your progress anymore but this feeling doesn’t erase all the progress you’ve already made. This feeling will pass and you will be okay.

-Samantha Camargo

[quotemadness]

“Darling, you deserve it all. You deserve love and peace and magic and joy dancing in your eyes. You deserve hearty, deep-belly laughter and the right to let those tears fall and water the soil. You deserve freedom and goodness and company and days of bliss and quiet too. You deserve you happy and healed and content and open. So keep going, darling. Keep going.”

— Unknown

[quotemadness]

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

— Roald Dahl

[dennybitte]

she bring the light

Lofoten / Norway

by Denny Bitte

[wholenessblooming]

Kate Northrup, Do Less

[annafridacharlotte]

[radical-revolution]

When you look back at your own life, you see that with the suffering you went through, you would have avoided it each time if you possibly could, yet when you look at the depths of your character now, and the fact that you’re sitting here doing this work, you see it’s all a product of those experiences.

Weren’t those experiences part of what created the depth of your inner being?

I look back over the times when I was suffering miserably. I certainly wouldn’t lay it on myself if I’d had a choice, but it happened. It was part of the working out of my life plan, and now when I look back in perspective, I see the power of those experiences. I see how they deepened something in me that was necessary for the moment.

—Ram Dass

[syringavulgaris]

Mary Oliver, Worm Moon