#ness

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean. ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#happiness #heartbreak #love

One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind. ↗

— Osho

#consciouness #enlightenment #evolution #guru #healing

Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#love #relationships #sex #love

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#reality #sacrifice #selflessness #well-being #love

If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for? ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#love #love

As I focus on diligent joy, I also keep remembering a simple idea my friend Darcey told me once -- that all the sorrow and trouble of this world is caused by unhappy people. Not only in the big global Hitler-'n'-Stalin picture, but also on the smallest personal level. Even in my own life, I can see exactly where my episodes of unhappiness have brought suffering or distress or (at the very least) inconvenience to those around me. The search for contentment is, therefore, not merely a self-preserving and self-benefiting act, but also a generous gift to the world. Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life

All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#loneliness #love #love

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so. ↗

— John Donne

#foolishness #love #love

Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#home #love

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#justice #mercy #wickedness #love