#ions

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life #spiritual #life

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#life #purpose #questioning #questions #why

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#divine #fear #floods #flow #hesitate

If you spent your life concentrating on what everyone else thought of you, would you forget who you really were? What if the face you showed the world turned out to be a mask... with nothing beneath it? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#image #self-image #life

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You're aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can't be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn't be. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fixing-things #life #life-and-living #living-life #moving-on

nothing in this world was more difficult than love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love #reality #relationships #life

We have to recognise that there cannot be relationships unless there is commitment, unless there is loyalty, unless there is love, patience, persistence. ↗

— Cornel West

#loyalty #relationships #life

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humanity #life #perfection #poetry #relationships

Tears are words the heart can't express ↗

— Gerard Way

#life #love #life

Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#memory #relationships #life