[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

James Matthew Barrie (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[thecalminside]

“People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.”

Dalai Lama

[thecalminside]

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”

Marcus Aurelius

[lazyyogi]

Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

Eckhart Tolle (via lazyyogi)

[thecalminside]

“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.”

Nisargadatta Maharaj

[thecalminside]

“The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid.

Everyone knows this is true, but few can put it into practice.”

Lao Tzu

[thecalminside]

“Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.”

Jack Kornfield

[thecalminside]

“Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?”

Eckhart Tolle

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“I made a resolution, the only one I can remember making and keeping. I decided not to tolerate, in my life from then on, any form of trivial unhappiness. Our time here is short.”

— Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love

[divine-despair]

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

William Blake (via divine-despair)

[quotemadness]

Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Deborah Reber (via etherealvistas)

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

And if I do nothing more than spend the rest of my life loving you I will have done something right.

Quinn De’Ramiere (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[quotemadness]

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.

John Steinbeck (via quotemadness)

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

I cannot rid the entire world of noxious problems, but I can patiently cultivate the good earth around my own two feet and grow what I wish to see in my own back yard.

Jacob Nordby (via liquidlightandrunningtrees)

[motherofhermes]

In the experience of awakening, what’s discovered is personal freedom. Personal freedom is freedom from everything that ever happened. It is freedom from identity being confined to the body, mind, memory, and all the ideas that we hold about ourselves.

Adyashanti (via motherofhermes)

[lazyyogi]

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Mark Twain (via lazyyogi)

[thequotejournals]

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (via thequotejournals)