#actual

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#self-actualization #self-image #life

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#existentialism #follow-your-bliss #self-actualization #self-determination #life

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#life

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love. ↗

— Rumi

#love #self-actualization #love

Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others... And your very flesh shall be a great poem. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#self-actualization #love

Use the word 'ya'll' and before you knew it, you'd find yourself in a haystack french-kissing an underage goat ↗

— David Sedaris

#i-repeat-this-quote-all-the-time #say-y-all-and-i-ll-actually-puke #love

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#fulfilment #nature #organism #rightness #self-actualization

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion. ↗

— Pete Sanders

#completion #counselling #development #helping #process

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare. ↗

— Jack Henry Abbott

#emotions #experiences #feels #horrible #lives

I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#down #easier #feeding #find #i