[jspark3000]

If you try to make someone do something, you will crush them with expectations. Not even God does that. People need to decide for themselves what to do, without coercion or shaming or manipulation, or else they’re only doing it to get you quiet. They won’t ever know why, and it will never become a part of them. Making demands is an external apparatus that will chokehold the people you claim to love. But if you truly love them, by listening and investing and sharing and even liking them, this is the only sort of love that will tenderize a heart to seek better for itself. This is true empowerment.

J.S. (via jspark3000)

[neon-igloo]

To be conscious of another means to be conscious of what one is not.

- Jean-Paul Sartre, on Self-Deception (via neon-igloo)

[swallowtheredpill]

We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.

François de La Rochefoucauld

(via swallowtheredpill)

[liquidnight]

For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that could be given a name.

George Orwell, 1984 (via liquidnight)

[yourmindmischief]

Love is not about concepts; love is about action. Love in action can only produce happiness. Fear in action can only produce suffering

The Mastery of Love Don Miguel Ruiz (via yourmindmischief)

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[me-and-my-messed-up-life]

[lenaj0y]

People may stir feelings inside of you but only you control how you respond to them. There is very little that we can justly blame on others.

Lena Slaughter (via cupcakes-n-butterflies)

[quotemedaily]

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Epicurus (via quotemedaily)

[samxcamargo]

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people’s opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions! Journey through the day without attachment to the validation of others.

Steve Maraboli (via loveinspireuniversally)

[abiding-in-peace]

To heal you must remember who you really are. Then no matter what happens to you, you can rely on this innate courage, you can trust your own wise heart because nothing and no one can take them from you.

Jack Kornfield (via abiding-in-peace)

[reignofthesoul]

And God said ‘Love Your Enemy.’ And I obeyed him and loved myself.

Kahlil Gibran (via tobiji)

[acrylicalchemy]

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.

Carl Jung (via acrylicalchemy)

[thecalminside]

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung (via thecalminside)