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Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain. ↗

— Tara Brach

#buddhist #inspirational #radical-acceptance #inspirational

Who are they to give stars or dots? They're Wemmicks just like you." Eli to Punchinello (p. 25) ↗

— Max Lucado

#inspirational #inspirational

You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can’t eradicate. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint. ↗

— Phillip C. McGraw

#advice-for-daily-living #inspirational #life-lessons #motivational #inspirational

I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey. ↗

— John Burroughs

#muses #reading #inspirational

Be hated. One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. ↗

— Adrian Tan

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment. ↗

— Mary Gaitskill

#inspiration #readers #vision #writing #inspirational

I don't care how impossible it seems. ↗

— David Byrne

#david-byrne #humorous #inspirational #song #talking-heads

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#happiness #hard-times #inspirational #life #inspirational