#al

Loss invites reflection and reformulating and a change of strategies. Loss hurts and bleeds and aches. Loss is always ready to call out your name in the night. Loss follows you home and taunts you at the breakfast table, follows you to work in the morning. You have to make accommodations and broker deals to soften the rabbit punches that loss brings to your daily life. You have to take the word "loser" and add it to your resume and walk around with it on your name tag as it hand-feeds you your own shit in dosages too large for even great beasts to swallow. The word "loser" follows you, bird-dogs you, sniffs you out of whatever fields you hide in because you have to face things clearly and you cannot turn away from what is true. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#lesson-from-lossing #life-lesson #loser-quotes #losing #losing-quotes

Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life. ↗

— Deborah Day

#happiness #personal-growth #well-being #change

Bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ↗

— Joanna Weaver

#change

Like pornography, junk [food] might be tough to define but you know it when you see it. ↗

— Mark Bittman

#health #junk-food #food

As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#editing #personal-growth #poetry #writing #change

This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#rights #social #revolution

¿Qué me valen la gracia y la belleza, y amar como jamás amó ninguna, si la pasión que el alma me devora, la desconoce aquel que me enamora? ↗

— José de Espronceda

#amor #belleza #españa #spanish #spanish

Such strength behind these eyes, that your soul glows through. Blinding. Captivating. Torturing. You may be as stubborn as a mule on a cliff side but any man would find the true meaning of foolishness to ever forget these facts. ↗

— Stephanie Hudson

#afterlife

Angels of highest light and love, Angels that radiate beams of pure energy from the heavens above. Please join us and be with us on this very night, As the soul of our beloved joins you in flight. We pray that you send this soul embraced in your lovely wings, During his journey may he hear harps, and trumpets and strings. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#angels #beam-of-energy #embraced #harps #hospice

The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ↗

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#moment #nobody #really #thank #thankful