#rug

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#haiku #persistence #struggle #buddhism

To be of the Earth is to know the restlessness of being a seed the darkness of being planted the struggle toward the light the pain of growth into the light the joy of bursting and bearing fruit the love of being food for someone the scattering of your seeds the decay of the seasons the mystery of death and the miracle of birth. ↗

— John Soos

#change #darkness #death #earth #joy

Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in love, and for his hurts, and in terrible pride. ↗

— Guy Gavriel Kay

#hurts #struggles #love

There are no saints either. We are immortal, but not so unlike the humans as you think. We have enemies, we have duties, we hate, we struggle, and we love. ↗

— Jessica Fortunato

#enemies #hate #human #immortal #love

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief. ↗

— Miriam Toews

#grief #love #love

What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me? ↗

— Melissa Marr

#leslie #struggle #love

Occasionally, she wondered if all couples struggled so much to understand one another, spoke so little at dinner together, spent so much time camped out in front of the TV. Did all women sometimes feel distanced from their man while they were making love? ↗

— Galt Niederhoffer

#couples #dinner #distanced #making-love #man

You can't truly appreciate the top if you've never hit rock bottom. ↗

— Vanna B.

#bottom #inspiration #motivational #struggle #top

Jamie Randall: Let's just say in some alternate universe, there's a couple just like us, okay? Only she's healthy and he's perfect. And their world is about how much they're going to spend on vacation or who's in a bad mood that day, or whether they feel guilty about having a cleaning lady. I don't want to be those people. I want us. You. This. ↗

— Margaret Watson

#love

Marriage without struggle is like an unfired clay pot. It is easily made, but it will not stand the test of time. ↗

— Allan Wolf

#struggle #wisdom #marriage