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To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Bitches, hoes, and colored bros won’t allow the old order to return

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“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”

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Margaret Atwood

(via purplebuddhaquotes)

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“The more you try to ‘let go’ the stronger your grip on the cause of your suffering. The more you try to control life, the greater the unhappiness when it follows its own path. The more you try to make others agree and support your position the more you isolate yourself. Dhamma is not like this. The Dhamma heart stands firm but gentle neither needing nor seeking approval or support, after all 'when you know, you know,’ and that knowing cannot be shaken. This beautiful part of you radiates its fearless clarity into the universe and accepts the consequences of infinite compassionate love. Some things are worth having - freedom from the needs of self is the greatest. May all being be happy.”

— Michael Kewley

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“We are learning to live again, and, for many of us, it is for the first time.”

— Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (via books-n-quotes)

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“I want to live before I die. It’s the only thing that makes sense.”

— Jenny Downham, Before I Die (via books-n-quotes)

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“As a citizen of earth, it is your patriotic duty to be as weird, as big, as great as you were born to be.”

— Paulie Lipman, Connor Marvin & Eddie Eifler, “Go Be Great”

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“Secret Keeper“ by | Tal Vardi

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“Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.”

— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love (via books-n-quotes)

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Newport Beach, California | ohdagyo

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“Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.” -Bruce Lee

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“Don’t think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is being mindfull in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don’t think that you’re coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.”

— Ajahn Chah

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There is no competing with the vastness of the ocean, because we are the very same thing.

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The strongest ones, the most confident ones, the ones who look like they have never needed love from anyone but themselves, those are the people that need love the most. You see, they’ve become so good at hiding their hurt, their pain that people simply forget that they too feel just as insecure and vulnerable as everybody else. They’re expected to laugh through their problems because thats what they have always done and the support that they give others is never returned because no one thinks they need it.

They are so used to be everyone else’s rock, everyone else’s crying shoulder, everyone else’s human to turn to, that when it comes to their own pain, they simply bottle it up and put it away. They cry alone, they hurt alone, they never tell anyone about their nightmares or how cruel life is really being because if they do, they’re afraid people will not see them as strong anymore. They are afraid of crumbling in front of anyone else because they do not want to seem weak and broken.

The strongest ones of us need support more than anything in the world because of being strong so very long that when they fall apart, it is not just a human falling to pieces and recovering, it is an avalanche, a volcanic eruption, the amount of pain that you could not imagine possible for a human to hold within themselves. The strongest people, the toughest ones, disguise their tears behind smiles and avert their eyes when in pain once too often.

This is why it is so important to ask “Are you okay?” more than once sometimes, especially from someone who is that strong. This is why it is important to allow our hearts to understand what our minds cannot when we see someone’s smile change, or their eyes show something their demeanor cannot.

The strongest ones of us need support the most. Because when the time comes to rely on someone they don’t know how, they don’t know how to reach out for a hand as they are so used to being the rock for everyone else that hurts.

Nikita Gill, The Strongest People Need Love The Most