EVERY relationship is different, so don't compare yours to the next, or listen to the comparison of others.
May 2012
88 posts
“She no longer said “Why is this happening to me?” She began to ask “How can I use this to my advantage?”
—“Are You Grateful for Your Body?” By Susan Dellanzo (via jalylah)
“When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?’ ‘You wouldn’t want to. That’s what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.”
—Jeanne DuPrau, The People of Sparks (via phoenixresurrection)
“Any decision I make is based on myself, and the only person I have to give an explanation to is God.”
—Solange Knowles (via diiddi)
“There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.”
—Douglas Adams (via meromorphic)
“I can look after myself, knowing that by healing my own hurts I won’t be passing them on to anyone else. In a society like ours, filled with so many emotionally wounded people acting out their pain, this is possibly the most important work we could ever do—heal our hurts so we don’t pass them on.”
—Susannah Conway (via missiesue)
“The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.
— Kin Hubbard
“You are always living a reflection of whatever you are outputting. And so, if you get into a little pocket where a lot of people are being rude, it’s probably because you are being rude — or because you have been aware of people being rude. Nothing ever happens to you that is not part of your vibration!”
- Esther Abraham-Hicks
“If you don’t know how to serve men, why worry about serving the gods?”
—The Boot of Wisdom (via suavegrandma)
“Even though you’re bigger than me, you can’t win, ‘cause you’re bad, and the good always wins over the bad.”
—Popeye (via myotherblogisawsome)
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“We have been conditioned to look to food for some kind of deeper fulfillment. Food can entertain us, we are told. It is exciting, romantic, adventurous, exotic. Vast sums of money are spent trying to get us to buy a certain brand of potato chip or to prefer one brand of frozen pizza over another. In the midst of this carnival atmosphere, it is easy to forget that the real purpose of food is to nourish our bodies.
” Eaten together with those we love, eating nutritious food that has been prepared with love - this can nourish our inner needs, as well as our bodies. taking time at meals to talk to each other and enjoy the meal as a shared sacrament is rare today… We need to slow down, take the time to prepare nutritious meal and rearrange our schedules so that we can be together.”
-Eknath Easwaran, from page 159 of “Words to Live By: Short Readings of Daily Wisdom.”
” —I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get. –Napolean Bonaparte
“Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.— H. L. Mencken”
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“A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.”
—Eeyore, Winnie the Pooh (via danscribing)
“If you’re dumb enough to call attention to yourself, by offending people and making rude gestures, don’t be surprised if someone bloodies your nose. Churned milk turns into butter: riled emotions turn into fist fights.”
—King Solomon, in a nifty little book he wrote called Proverbs. Specifically Proverbs 30:32-33 MSG translation. (via placeforallmylove)
M. E. Asher: Temptation →
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If one was to summarize life in the simplest of statements, it would be to call it an endless battle to recognize hollow temptation. Not to fight hollow temptation, but to recognizeit.
There exists temptations which are impossible to resist, and weaknesses that one will almost always fall prey…
“Don’t you know that love isn’t just going to bed? Love isn’t an act, it’s a whole life. It’s staying with her now because she needs you; it’s knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures — when all that’s on the shelf and done with. Love — why, I’ll tell you what love is: it’s you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other’s step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime’s talk is over.”
—Brian Moore (via theangelshare)
“When it comes to marriage and men, it’s not how they ask, or the size of the ring, or not even having a ring that matters. It’s how they follow through with that promise. How they spend the rest of the days of their life with you.”
—Mom (via mikaylaugh)
