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[inbedallday]

These events are too much to think about, too awful to imagine. The world seems cruelly immense now, and remorselessly itself.

Richard Bausch, The Fireman's Wife

[inbedallday]

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Rumi

[inbedallday]

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.

W.H. Sheldon

[inbedallday]

Silence is a strange thing to us who live: we desire it, we fear it, we worship it, we hate it.

Keith Douglas

[inbedallday]

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. Some of you say, "Joy is greater than sorrow," and others say, "Nay, sorrow is the greater." But I say unto you, they are inseparable. Together they come, and when one sits, alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed. Verily you are suspended like scales between your sorrow and your joy. Only when you are empty are you at standstill and balanced. When the treasure-keeper lifts you to weigh his gold and his silver, needs must your joy or your sorrow rise or fall.

Kahlil Gibran

[inbedallday]

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

Lin Yutang

[middlenameconfused]

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it’s one thing and one thing only: it’s doing what you have to do.

Cheryl Strayed (via middlenameconfused)

[inbedallday]

Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow, I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain. When you awaken in the morning's hush, I am the sweet uplifting hush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not here, I did not die.

[inbedallday]

Yes, sometimes life leaves us between a rock and a hard place. But flowers grow in between them, and they are beautiful.

Anthony Johnson

[inbedallday]

All things will be, all things must pass and all things must fade; it is our job to hold them tight until they do.

Tyler Knott Gregson

[inbedallday]

Love is anterior to life, Posterior to death, Initial of creation, and The exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

[inbedallday]

An optimism so total that it does not suffer when it is soiled, lied to, or stolen from. This optimism does not expect to be derailed—and in a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy it almost never is.

Matt Ryan Richardson (www.thatdreamer.com)

[inbedallday]

I would like to become tolerant without overlooking anything, persecute no one even when all people persecute me; become better without noticing it; become sadder, but enjoy living; become more serene, be happy in others; belong to no one, grow in everyone; love the best, comfort the worst; not even hate myself anymore.

Elias Canetti

[inbedallday]

You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Jonathan Safran Foer

[inbedallday]

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

John Lennon

[inbedallday]

Love is not kindly nor yet grim, But does to you as you to him.

Robert Graves

[inbedallday]

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.