i am sorry for the loss of your person. and the million things that vanished on the day their heart stopped beating. and the billion things you must grieve every single day that they aren’t here. and I am sorry that there isn’t a better word than just sorry. – Sara Rian

It’s not the number of hours you practice. It’s about the number of hours your mind is present during the practice. Kobe Bryant

Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, bar room regulars – to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording – is all spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. […]

Here’s the truth about grief: loss gets integrated, not overcome. However long it takes, your heart and your mind will carve out a new life amid this weirdly devastated landscape. Little by little, pain and love will find ways to coexist. – Megan Devine

On Earth, just a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh six billion tons. Six billion tons equals the collective weight of every animal on earth. Including the insects. Times three. Six billion tons sounds impossible until I consider how it is to swallow grief— just a teaspoon and one might as well have consumed a […]

Want to help a grieving friend? Let them be sad. The thing is, you can’t cheer someone up by telling them to look on the bright side, or giving them advice. Your job, honestly, is to feel awkward and stay there anyway. Just hang right out there with their pain. Megan Devine

Consistency is harder when no one is clapping for you. You must clap for yourself during those times, you should always be your biggest fan. @thefemalehustlers

The Dickson Man’s Dominion The man from Dickson electorate, and his abhorrent and inveterate hostility, I only know through his words and through his actions. Holding an unprecedented position, with a boastful disposition he presides with chilling pride over a shameful malefaction. The untruth that we’re learning, to the masses undiscerning, is that those who […]

This moment is not life waiting to happen, goals waiting to be achieved, words waiting to be spoken, connections waiting to be made, regrets waiting to evaporate, aliveness waiting to be felt, enlightenment waiting to be gained. No. Nothing is waiting. This is it. This moment is life. Jeff Foster

Maybe your life purpose isn’t supposed to be a thrill-seeking narrative. What if you’re meant to be the sunshine to someone’s stormy day? Or the voice of clarity to a frantic mind? You don’t have to be a superhero to save the world. @consciousreminder

Through the window The earth breathes its morning mist and ghosts the meadow; the horses are pencil-sketched, the oak charcoal. They paddle hooves and roots in grounded cloud, and, as chrome breaks a hole in the chalky sky, they are lit like tinder. – Helen Laycock

I WOULD START FIRES TOO IF I KNEELED PEACEFULLY AND WAS RIDICULED AND MY VOICE NOT HEARD I WOULD START FIRES TOO IF FLAMES WERE LOUDER THAN MY SCREAMS THAT ECHOED THROUGHOUT GENERATIONS AND FELL SILENT ON THIS NATION I WOULD BURN DOWN EVERY CITY OUT OF MY FRUSTRATION IF THOSE WHO KILLED MY BROTHERS […]

Start over; my darling. Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it. Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to. Madalyn Beck

What I Weigh I weigh the sea I weigh the storm I weigh a thousand stories long. I weigh my mother’s fortitude and my father’s eyes I weigh the way they look at me with pride I weigh strength and fearless and the warrior in me. I weigh all the pain and trauma that made […]

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust. Thomas Aquinas

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. Gavin Coolidge

Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world […]

It is easier to build up a child than it is to repair an adult. Choose your words wisely. Author Unknown

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who […]

Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being’s suffering. Nothing – not career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we’re going to survive with dignity. Audrey Hepburn

The most important thing you will ever do in your life is learn to embrace your unique, honest self. A boundless, infinitely populated universe and there is nothing else here quite like you. This is your power. All those things that make you strange and different also make you irreplaceable. Beau Taplin

And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.

There is pride, too, though – pride that he has done it alone. That his daughter is so curious, so resilient. There is the humility of being a father to someone so powerful, as if he were only a narrow conduit for another, greater thing. That’s how it feels right now, he thinks, kneeling beside […]

They say, “what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.” I don’t agree. Some things that didn’t kill me came so close that they’re still damaging. They didn’t make me better. Some things made me worse. And can’t that be ok too? Can’t some things just break you? This whole fucking world wants you to believe […]

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron […]

Acquainted with the Night I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain – and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I […]

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. The Light in the Heart, Roy T. Bennett

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us […]

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)                                                       i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my […]

I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe

Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it – that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer […]

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with the golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread […]

Do not go gentle into that good night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go […]

Death and Cupid: An Allegory Ah! who but oft hath marvelled why The gods who rule above Should e’er permit the young to die, The old to fall in love! Ah! why should hapless human-kind Be punished out of season? Pray listen, and perhaps you’ll find My rhyme may give the reason. Death, strolling out […]