May 2012
If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom...
– Frederick Douglass (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
Anna Akhmatova, "One Takes the Straight Line"
airwalker:
One takes the straight line, another goes in a circle and longs for the return to the parents’ house and longs for a former girlfriend. But I go, not in a straight line or in a zigzag, into nowhere and never, and disasters follow me like trains crashing off the tracks.
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Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
– Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind)
It is completely natural that thoughts keep on arising. The point is not to try...
– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche (via humanformat)
There’s nothing wrong with being happy. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying...
– Todd VanDerWerff (via sparrowsarahnade)
We let Willow cut her hair. When you have a little girl, it’s like how can you...
– (On why he let Willow cut all of her hair off)
Read more: Will Smith On Allowing Willow To Cut Her Hair: ‘She Has Got To Have Command Of Her Body’ | Necole Bitchie.com (via liquidiousfleshbag)
See also: No Forced Kisses for Your Kids
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You can’t drive a knife into a man’s back nine inches, pull it out six inches,...
– Malcolm X (via thedismembermentflan)
Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of...
– W.H. Auden (via psychologicalsnippets)
20 Ways to Get Good Karma - By The Dalai Lama →
finnaidraumi:
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
Follow the three R’s: - Respect for self, - Respect for others and - Responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don’t let a...
Precisely because death awaits us in the end, we must live fully. Precisely...
– —Elie Wiesel, All Rivers Run to the Sea
Dominant groups typically show the least tolerance for allowing themselves to...
– Allan G. Johnson
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I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly...
– Toni Morrison (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon...
– Washington Irving
[I lost my mother in 1995. Appreciate your mother while you have her!]
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