June 2012
15 posts
“There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.”
—Elizabeth A. Behnke (via moreofamore)
“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds.. Claim, and consciously use, your power.”
— Louise Hay (via coffee-and-sleep)
“She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.”
—The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares (via anditslove)
“Listen once in a while. It’s amazing what you can hear. On a hot summer day in the country you can hear the corn growing, the crack of a tin roof buckling under the power of the sun. In a real old-fashioned parlor silence so deep you can hear the dust settling on the velveteen settee, you might hear the footsteps of something sinister gaining on you, or a heart-stoppingly beautiful phrase from Mozart you haven’t heard since childhood, or the voice of somebody - now gone - whom you loved. Or sometime when you’re talking up a storm so brilliant, so charming that you can hardly believe how wonderful you are, pause just a moment and listen to yourself. It’s good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly.”
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Russell Baker, Class of 1995 Commencement Address at Connecticut College
(via acciowinchesters)
“Today, give yourself the consideration and kindness you’d extend to the people you love. If you’re dissatisfied with your progress, remind yourself of all you’ve accomplished. If you made a mistake, cut yourself from slack. If you’re tired, take it easy.”
—Lori Deschene (http://tinybuddha.com)
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far”
—Swami Vivekananda (via scarletbeggonia)
