Quote Of The Day

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"You cannot save people, you can only love them." ~Anais Nin

“You have to open yourself up and let the pain move through you. It’s not yours to hold on to.” ~Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

 

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"I seduce myself with my hope." ~Susan Sontag

"The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs everyday." ~Marcel Proust

"If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling." ~Fernando Pessoa

 

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"Healing can be offensive to people who benefited from your brokenness." ~Joc Nixon

"I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.” ~Akira Kurosawa

 

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The excerpt below is from a much longer quote that speaks to me on so many levels. I wish I could go back and undo all the chemical shit storms I marinated my body in in order to try to live up to the standards of what most of society deems as "acceptable" and necessary - especially as we age. What a feeling of freedom to no longer be attached to all those products and demands. When various industries depend on us never feeling good enough, both internally and externally, things aren't likely to change.

"...When women are trained into thinking there is something fundamentally wrong with getting older, and are coerced into spending money, energy and power investing in ‘slowing the signs of ageing’, an enormous vault of divine love is lost. Just think what would happen if all the women in the world started loving themselves even more with every year that passed...." ~Sophie Bashford

 

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"Perhaps our nightmares and fears about alien invaders are driven largely by the indifference we’ve shown with regard to the pain, suffering and deprivation that’s inflicted, due to our selfishness, on nonhuman animals. Imagine how it might feel to be subjected to the same treatment and conditions we routinely impose on farmed animals." ~Don Robertson

 

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"You're not stuck. You're just committed to certain patterns of behavior because they helped you in the past. Now those behaviors have become more harmful than helpful. The reason why you can't move forward is because you keep applying an old formula to a new level in your life. Change the formula to get a different result." ~Emily Maroutian

"You're on earth. There's no cure for that." ~Samuel Beckett

 

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"A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence." ~Antonio Porchia

"I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful." ~Virginia Woolf

 

[coraxxx]

"You're on earth. There's no cure for that." ~Samuel Beckett

Old Samuel… he has a way isn’t it

I heard in a show… "The first days of captivity, you don’t register you’re captive. Every day for a while, you wake up like a free woman and then you have to remember it all. And after that, you never forget."

 

[Lionheart]

"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they are yours." ~Richard Bach~
"You are never too old to learn something really stupid" ~Unknown~
"Your opinion of me is none of my dam* business" ~Unknown~
"Sometimes ya just gotta stop and ask yourself,...What would Scooby do?" ~Lionheart~

 

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"It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you." ~Bob Dylan

 

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"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that wildness is a necessity." ~John Muir

"You seek too much information and not enough transformation." ~Shirdi Sai Baba

"You are not lazy, unmotivated, or stuck. After years of living your life in survival mode, you are exhausted. There's a difference." ~Nakeia Homer

 

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"All my grief says the same thing: this isn't how it's supposed to be. This isn't how it's supposed to be. And the world laughs. Holds my hope by the throat. Says: but this is how it is." ~Fortesa Latifi