#let

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself? ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#villette #life

In the infinity of life where I am, All is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack, I now choose to begin to see myself As the Universe sees me --- perfect, whole, and complete. ↗

— Louise L. Hay

#whole-and-complete #life

What's the difference?" You ask me The difference is, a smile touches my lips When I remember both the memory of you entering my life And the memory of you leaving my life ↗

— Tammy-Louise Wilkins

#happy #heartbreak #letting-go #loss #love

If our enemies take me And people stop talking to me, If they confiscate the whole world— The right to breathe, open doors, Affirm that existence shall go on And that people, like a judge, shall judge, And if they dare to keep me like an animal And fling my food on the floor, I won’t fall silent or deaden the agony, But shall write what I am free to write, My naked body gathering momentum like a bell, And in a corner of the ominous dark I shall yoke ten oxen to my voice And move my hand in the darkness like a plough And, wrung out into a legion of brotherly eyes, Shall fall with the full heaviness of a harvest, Exploding in the distance with all the force of a vow, And in the depths of the unguarded night The eyes of that unskilled laborer, earth, shall shine And a flock of flaming years swoop down, And like a ripe thunderstorm Lenin shall burst forth. But on this earth (which shall escape decay) There to wake up life and reason will be ↗

— Osip Mandelstam

#food

The flush toilet, more than any single invention, has 'civilized' us in a way that religion and law could never accomplish. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#civilized #toilet #life

If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me? ↗

— John Green

#colin-singleton #john-green #love

Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger ↗

— Sara Evans

#couples #letting-go #love #relationship #sad

I've been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I'm moving on ↗

— Rascal Flatts

#couples #letting-go #love #moving-on #relationship

Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It's over. ↗

— Maggi Richard

#heartbreak #letters #love #words #love

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it. ↗

— Cornel West

#ideas #letters #love #wise #love