#elf

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#honesty #self-awareness #meditation

Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard, in a scarcely dug grave, only recently inhabited by withered flesh. This truth, which is banal enough, unravels time and the face, holds up a mirror to me in which I cannot see myself without being overcome by a profound sadness that undermines one's whole being. The mirror has become the route through which my body reaches that state, in which it is crushed into the ground, digs a temporary grave, and allows itself to be drawn by the living roots that swarm beneath the stones. It is flattened beneath the weight of that immense sadness which few people have the privilege of knowing. So I avoid mirrors. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#eating-disorder #eating-disorders #mirrors #poetry #self-esteem

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal. ↗

— John Bolton

#candidate #declaring #does #himself #i

Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It require you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#actions #connect #cultivation #helps #know

Most of the time Marilyn's mother remained unconscious, her breath labored and erratic. One morning before dawn, she suddenly opened her eyes and looked clearly and intently at her daughter. "You know," she whispered softly, "all my life I thought something was wrong with me." Shaking her head slightly, as if to say, "What a waste," she closed her eyes and drifted back into a coma. ↗

— Tara Brach

#life

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#any #anyone #anything #been #blake

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#hearing #me #myself #prevents #static

I defend peoples' right to do that in a lawful manner, but I have not undertaken that practice myself. ↗

— Rick Boucher

#i #lawful #manner #myself #practice

This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride ↗

— patrick cruz

#poetry #self-expression #art

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. ↗