“Ever since time began, people have recognized their true Love by the light in their eyes.”
—Paulo Coelho (via sonlatinos)
January 2012
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“You do not need to change other people; you can change your reaction to them. When you choose to feel good you are not dependent on other people acting in certain ways to make you feel good. Before you can attract people who will support, appreciate, and acknowledge you, you must choose to do that for yourself.”
—Orin (via nirvikalpa)
“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
—Aristotle (via sevdaverdana)
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is only to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate. I think it is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
—Leo Rosten (via meanderingwind)
“One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu – the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can’t be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality – Ubuntu – you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”
—Archbishop Desmond Tutu (via plantingwisdom)
“Certain things in life simply have to be experienced - and never explained. Love is such a thing.”
—Maktub by Paulo Coelho (via lostinthesounds)
“I don’t believe in failure, because simply by saying you’ve failed, you’ve admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.”
— Sarah Dessen
“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”
—Sophia Loren (via samsonspassion)
"What the world needs is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness." - Neale D Walsch
A change in consciousness will lead to a change in circumstance.
“Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?”
—Mahatma Gandhi
“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
—Paulo Coelho (Brida)
“Why do you worry without cause? Whom do you fear without reason? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born, nor does it die. Whatever happened, happened for the good; whatever is happening, is happening for the good; whatever will happen, will also happen for the good only. You need not have any regrets for the past. You need not worry for the future. The present is happening…right now. What did you lose that you cry about? What did you bring with you, which you think you have lost? What did you produce, which you think got destroyed? You did not bring anything - whatever you have, you received from here. Whatever you have given, you have given only here. Whatever you took, you took from God. Whatever you gave, you gave to Him. You came empty handed, you will leave empty handed. You came with nothing, you will leave with nothing. What is yours today, belonged to someone else yesterday, and will belong to someone else the day after tomorrow. You are mistakenly enjoying the thought that this is yours. It is this false happiness that is the cause of your sorrows. Change is the law of the universe. What you think of as death, is indeed life. In one instance you can be a millionaire, and in the other instance, you can be steeped in poverty. Yours and mine, big and small - erase these ideas from your mind. Then everything is yours and you belong to everyone. This body is not yours, neither are you of the body. The body is made of fire, water, air, earth and ether, and will disappear into these elements. But the soul is permanent - so who are you?”
—The Bhagavad Gita (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
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(via almaguerrera)
“Our anger or annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.”
—Marcus Aurelius
“The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.”
—Rumi
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“Palestinians are an invention of the late 1970’s”
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Newt Gingrich (via phredology)
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