Be unattached to your ideas of the way things are “supposed to be.”
Meet today.
See where you take it, and where it takes you.
Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, 2017 (dir. Griffin Dunne)
(Source: oldfilmsflicker)
“There are two reasons why people don’t talk about things; either it doesn’t mean anything to them, or it means everything.”
“A true warrior is never at war with the world. And it takes this understanding to begin a revolution with one self. There are no shortcuts in the human journey. As much as we dislike it, the mud in which we all swim is necessary to bloom. Many times we get confused and think we are the mud. We are not. In Eastern traditions the Lotus flower symbolizes perfection because the flower raises unstained above muddy waters. I choose to be the Lotus.”
Chogyam Trungpa (via lazyyogi)
“What is human existence? It turns out it’s pretty simple: We are dead stars, looking back up at the sky.”
“But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby. I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept.”
Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via books-n-quotes)
“Free yourself from the illusion of good and bad days. Labeling time makes us nostalgic of the past and demanding of the future. There is only here and now. Let it be.”
Ram Dass (via quotemadness)
“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
(via the-book-diaries)
(via the-book-diaries)
A two inch frog shelters itself from the rain in Jember, East Java, in Indonesia.
Image by Penkdix Palme
(Source: goodvibequotes)
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