Beyond the Grains of Coffee Beans

for the places seen, memories forgotten, novels read, moments seized, people cherished, and all the miles left to go.

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Don’t mention a person’s past mistakes when they are trying to change. That’s like throwing rocks at them while they are struggling to climb a mountain.

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

Uma Thurman (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Soft hearted people are not fools. They know what people did to them but they forgive them again and again because they have beautiful hearts.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

If I could, I would apologize to the sky and my room ceiling for all of the nights I’ve awkwardly stared at them remembering things I should have forgotten.

Maxwell Diawuoh

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[purplebuddhaquotes]

Soon you’ll realize that many people will love the idea of you but will lack the maturity to handle the reality of you.

Reyna Biddy (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[snowandstarlight]

so far, intern year has been a study in how to be 15 places at once

which inevitably ends in failure and disappointment all around

[mindfullymedical]

I feel this in my soul. 

[doc-resilient]

attending: so did you follow-up with [consultant], what did they say?

resident: i’ve literally been in front of you rounding for the last 3 hours

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind and emotions.

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

Andrei Platonov

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[purplebuddhaquotes]

When someone does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right.

Unknown (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[purplebuddhaquotes]

People aren’t always what you want them to be. Sometimes they disappoint you or let you down, but you have to give them a chance first. You can’t just meet someone and expect them to be everything you’re looking for and then be angry when they’re not every hope and aspiration you projected onto them. It’s foolish to believe that someone will be what you imagine them to be. And sometimes, when you give them a chance, they turn out to be better than you imagined. Different, but better.

Chloe Rattray (via purplebuddhaquotes)

[kumarendranbalachandran]

Eric Chou <3

Omg why must Eric Chou capture every piece of what my neurons encapsulates? 

[saintmachina]

“I am too in love with this world, I think, with its inconstancies and injustices and soft instances of joy. Likewise, I am too in love with a world perceivable only in moments of transient clarity, full of old stories with new endings and languages we all once knew how to speak. I cannot forsake one for the other, nor can I abandon the pursuit of the other in order to more fully delight in the one. Perhaps this is what is meant by “the kingdom of God”: our hurt in our hands, our hope in our mouths, our feet moving forward while our hearts beat in two places at once.”

— S.T. Gibson

[weltenwellen]

“The wound can have (should only have) just one proper name. I recognize that I love — you — by this: you leave in me a wound I do not want to replace.”

— Jacques Derrida (trans. Alan Bass), The Postcard: from Socrates to Freud and Beyond 

[quotemadness]

“The world is a huge place. How will you know where you fit in unless you explore beyond your comfort zone?”

— Katie McGarry (via quotemadness)

[kvtes]

sometimes you think you are done healing, done remembering, done being held back by past hurts. and then all of the sudden you find yourself still struggling to make eye contact with someone they are being kind to you. or you find yourself unable to speak out of the fear of being seen by someone standing in front of you.

do not stay in that fear. do not settle into it and make a home there. acknowledge it, understand it, and then work towards the eye contact. work towards accepting the kindness of others. work towards being more vulnerable and honest with your words.

there is more, there is better, and you are worth both.

[movemequotes]

No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

Zen Proverb (via movemequotes)

[soracities]

But do not speak of gardens, do not speak of the moon, do not speak of the rose, do not speak of the sea. Speak of what you know. Speak of what vibrates in your marrow and plays light and shadows in your eyes, speak of the ceaseless pain in your bones, speak of vertigo, speak of your breathing, of your desolation, of your treason […] Oh speak of silence.

Alejandra Pizarnik, from ‘The Cure of Folly’, Selected Poems (trans. Cecilia Rossi)