#real strength

[itsmythang]

This is four minutes of Barack Obama being both completely fed up with the shenanigans and very effective.

When I was a little girl all those years ago my Mom would always say "If you lie you'll steal and if you steal you'll kill". Now do you want to be a murderer my dear?

[myrabbithole]

Yet I'll get called weak for it....

Ha.

Trust me it takes real strength to feel this deeply.

[whatrealityisthisagain]

A friend posted this in a group I'm part of, and I wanted to share because it punched me in the face and I want to punch everyone else in the face with it.

"Sometimes you need to sit with your hardest emotions and really feel them. It's not weakness. It's strength.

- Angel"

[life-in-the-freefall]

Shaykh Abu Muhammad Sa’adi Muswlih ad-Din ibn ‘Abdullah ash-Shirazi (q.s.) said, “A pious man saw a wrestler full of wrath and foaming at the mouth. He asked, ‘What is the matter with this fellow?’

A bystander said, ‘Someone has insulted him.’

He remarked, ‘This base wretch is able to lift a tonne of stones, and has not the power to bear one word?’”

[mindfulawareness]

The tough guy isn’t the one who rages blindly, but the one who is strong enough to not let the rage control his actions.

Some dude

[hannahbrandybuck]

"When we fake fine, we fake our way out of authentic relationship with God, others, and ourselves. But lament, an honest expression of grief, is a prayer that God never silences nor wastes. It is an authentic prayer that invites God to meet us right where we are, not where we pretend to be. It is the language for the faithful, for we know the One who holds our pain. And He never silences our cries. Even more than that, He cries with us. There will be seasons for each of us when we lament alone. But isolation – for all of us, is never our destination. Real strength is not pretending we are fine and keeping God and others at a safe distance. Real strength is letting others into our brokenness. Real strength is confessing we need God’s rescue over and over and over again. For God loves us all too much to lament without rescue.

[fucking-cutie]

[pourpositivity]

When people are mad they tend to be harsh. When people are wronged they tend to fade away.