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44 quotes
American writer
“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”
"You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight."
on Life
"Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark."
on Faith
"At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you."
on Mindfulness
"Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe."
on Relationships
"The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams."
on Hope
"I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life."
on Wisdom
"Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."
"Fear is a desolate boneyard where our dreams go to desiccate in the hot sun."
on Fear
"I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises."
on Happiness
"Step forward out of your own lingering residual sense of smallness, take up every inch of life that is your blessed inheritance, and DO YOUR THING."
on Courage
"And always remember that people's judgements about you are none of your business."
"You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
on Psychology
"You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings."
on Inspirational
"Man is a demon, man is a god. Both true."
on Philosophy
"We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace."
on Self Awareness
"Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone."
"It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away."
"Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can’t be replaced by anything else."
"But I love him.""So love him.""But I miss him.""So miss him. Send him love and light every time you think about him, and then drop it."
on Love
"You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be."
