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[panatmansam]

How to stay healthy at all times? Lets pass the basics such as exercising and not smoking

The Five Remembrances of the Buddha

1.) I am of the nature to grow old. There is no way to escape growing old.

2.) I am of the nature to have ill-health. There is no way to escape having ill-health.

3.) I am of the nature to die. There is no way to escape death.

4.) All that is dear to me and everyone that I love are of the nature to change. There is no way to escape being separated from them.

5.) My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

[lazyyogi]

Buddha was very good at making these lists.

[thequotesiquote]

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solicitude will break you of it's yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broke, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself that you tasted as many as you could.

Louise Erdich "The Painted Drum"

[venula]

Your veins create a map of all the places that my love longs to call home.

Things I Never Got To Tell You, Part 13 

[hammersandsheep]

They burned the bridge, then ask why I don’t visit.

Ugo Eze 

[weltenwellen]

I want to forget everything you told me. I want to wash away how uncertain you made me. How scared I was of losing you. How I lost you anyway. I don’t want to know how your hands feel or what makes you smile. I don’t want to see you in photos, familiar like a dream I had once or a book I never finished. I don’t want to speak about you in snippets or think about how I behaved. Or know that I still think about it. Or know that you’re not just a lamp or a blade of grass, indistinguishable from the rest.

Gaby Dunn  

[write20xx]

I’m ashamed of myself because I know I should be better and I have no idea how to get there.

I Don’t Know Where to Go From Here (#370: April 7, 2014) 

[headofporridge]

Lie down and look up at the ceiling and breathe with those curiously fragile lungs of yours and remind yourself: Don’t worry. Don’t worry. All is as it was meant to be. It was meant to be lonely and terrifying and unfair and heaving. Don’t worry.

The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home, Night Vale #31.5,”Condos” 

[unconditionedconsciousness]

Just let it be. You may as well; it is. Everything moves in and out at its own time. You have no control. You never did; you never will.

[n4ughty-y]

Our bodies could be skin on skin and I’d still pull you closer.

[stoicremains-deactivated2017102]

I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald 

[sortnoir]

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

Leonora Carrington

[lostwiththewolves]

But your best friend is still your best friend. Even from half a world away. Distance can’t sever that connection. Best friends are the kind of people who can survive anything. And when best friends see each other again, after being separated by half a world and more miles than you think you can bear, you pick up right where you left off. After all, that’s what best friends do.

[psych-facts]

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[thequotesiquote]

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure.

Cesar Chavez

[thequotesiquote]

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection. Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare

Brené Brown

[emotional-algebra]

Today, give yourself permission to be outrageously kind, irrationally warm, improbably generous. I promise it will be a blast.

Sasha Dicter, of Acumen Fund, on Generosity Day

[navk]

I am the shadow among a star that burns along with it; she is the kind of light that even darkness could not dare to refuse

Nav K