“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.” — Dave Eggers. (via rocksfalling)
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“You tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do, love
split his head open?
you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.”
— “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love,” Warsan Shire (via seabearia)
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“I have to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” — Audre Lorde (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Everything we do is infused with the energy with which we do it. If we’re frantic, life will be frantic. If we’re peaceful, life will be peaceful. And so our goal in any situation becomes inner peace.” — Marianne Williamson (via -imperfection)
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“But eventually you learn that you just can’t save anyone no matter how hard you try. People have to want to change, they have to want to do better, and to be better. All you can do is love people and pray for them and be present when they need you. But you can’t save them; at the end of the day, we all have to save ourselves.” — Kovie Biakolo, You Can’t Save Anyone (via larmoyante)
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“Truth is not spoken in anger. Truth is spoken, if it ever comes to be spoken, in love. The gaze of love is not deluded. It sees what is best in the beloved even when what is best in the beloved finds it hard to emerge into the light.” — J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man (via larmoyante)
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“In science it often happens that scientists say, ‘You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,’ and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.” — Carl Sagan (via subatomiconsciousness)
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“While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, the most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.” — Aimee Bender; “Ironhead” (via lifeinpoetry)
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“Love is the whole thing.
We are only pieces.”
— Rumi (via larmoyante)
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Valjean-Rising: Ivan Pavlov & his Dogs -
Why were Pavlov’s findings given so much acknowledgment?
Pavlov’s description on how animals (and humans) can be trained to
respond in a certain way to a particular stimulus drew tremendous
interest from the time he first presented his results. His work paved
the way for a new, more objective…
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“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” — Buddha (via larmoyante)
Wisdom
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