#being

(M)aybe we too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest and worthy of respect . . . you know . . . like being people. ↗

— Toni Cade Bambara

#self-honesty #business

A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering. ↗

— Dale Breckenridge Carnegie

#savages #suffering-life #art

You want science and studies? Fuck you. I’ve got scars and blood and vomit. ↗

— Jim Wendler

#strength #science

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#sad

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#being

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#being

We know what we are, but not what we may be. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#identity #possibilities #being

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#being #being overwhelmed #frightened #had #high

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#pain #being

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#mind #being