June 2013
“Whenever anything negative happens to you, there is a deep lesson concealed within it, although you may not see it at the time. Even a brief illness or an accident can show you what is real and unreal in your life, what ultimately matters and what doesn’t.”
—Eckhart Tolle (via dirrtyrascal)
“I cured myself of shyness when it finally occurred to me that people didn’t think about me half as much as I gave them credit for. The truth was, nobody gave a damn. Like most teenagers, I was far too self-centered. When I stopped being prisoner to what I worried was others’ opinions of me, I became more confident and free.”
—Lucille Ball (via ablogwithaview)
“In order to grow your audience, you must betray their expectations.”
—Hayao Miyazaki (via fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment)
“Wholeness is what we ought to be striving for and part of that is sadness, disappointment, frustration, failure; all of those things which make us who we are. Happiness and victory and fulfillment are nice little things that also happen to us, but they don’t teach us much. Everyone says we grow through pain and then as soon as they experience pain they say “Quick! Move on! Cheer up!” I’d like just for a year to have a moratorium on the word “happiness” and to replace it with the word “wholeness.” Ask yourself “is this contributing to my wholeness?” and if you’re having a bad day, it is.”
—Hugh Mackay (via creatingaquietmind)
“I exist in two places,
here and where you are” —Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems (1965-1975)
here and where you are” —Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems (1965-1975)
