a story of becoming

come along on this unfolding

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“I am going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”

Jean-Paul Sartre (via emotional-algebra)

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“Listen. To live is to be marked. To live is to change, to acquire the words of a story, and that is the only celebration we mortals really know.”

Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible (via emotional-algebra)

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“Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I’ve walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.”

Gia Carangi (via emotional-algebra)

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“You’ll meet her, she’s very pretty, even though sometimes she’s sad for many days at a time. You’ll see- when she smiles, you’ll love her.”

Pan’s Labyrinth (via emotional-algebra)

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Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

Osho (via emotional-algebra)

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The sun shows up every morning, no matter how bad you’ve been the night before. It shines without judgment. It never withholds. It warms the sinners, the saints, the druggies, the cheerleaders- the saved and the heathens alike. You can hide from the sun, but it wont take you personally. It’ll never, ever punish you for hiding. You can stay in the dark for years or decades, and when you finally step outside, it’ll be there.

Glennon Doyle Melton (via emotional-algebra)

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I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they respond to it, and simultaneously what they do with what they feel like are limitations. If they push against these limitations, will they wind up in the realm of chaos, or will they push against limitations and wind up in the world of freedom?

Philip Roth (via emotional-algebra)

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With you, intimacy colours my voice. even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’.

Warsan Shire (via emotional-algebra)

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People think that the world itself is overflowing with beauty, but they forget that they are its cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche (via emotional-algebra)

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All of us are better when we are loved.

Alistair MacLeod, No Great Mischief (via emotional-algebra)

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The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

Vladimir Nabokov (via emotional-algebra)

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You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

Paulo Coelho  (via emotional-algebra)

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Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

Alice Walker (via emotional-algebra)

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I want to remember that the sky is so gorgeously large, I feel stranded beneath it.

Anis Mojgani (via emotional-algebra)

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I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (via emotional-algebra)

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May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Neil Gaiman (via emotional-algebra)

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Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

Mahatma Gandhi (via emotional-algebra)