#ali

In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#healing #light #spiritual-life #wounds #life

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-expression #uniqueness #life

She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#live-life #sensuality #life

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life? ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#life

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#fears #reality-of-life #life

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten. ↗

— André Breton

#surrealism #life

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#enjoy #figured #finally #i #only

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#ignorance #life #reality #suffering #life

The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#spirituality #life

Anymore, no one's mind is their own. ↗