Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
C.S Lewis (St. Augustine)

I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames (via flealovesyourspirit)

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
W.M. Lewis

soulvibe:

Never knew that love could hurt like this. Never thought I would but I got dissed. Makes me feel so sad and hurt inside. Feel embarrased so I want to hide. Silly me I thought your love was true. Change my name to Silly E. Badu. Before I heal, it’s gonna be a while. I know it’s gonna be a while, chile.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.
Jane Austen (via gypsyy-feet)

A goal without a plan is simple… a wish
Antoin e de Saint-Exupery

deadoralivewtf:

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential — for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.”

pure-fallacy:

Truth.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love…
Marilyn Monroe

Practicing mindfulness enables us to become a real person. When we are a real person, we see real people around us, and life is present in all its richness.
Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace is Every Step (via kimjungho)

…people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that maybe will descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments.
Elizabeth Gilbert (via thehbox)

ufocottoncandy:

You enter in full-blown technicolor, Nothing is the same after tonight.

Your love is a verb here in my room - Incubus

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.
Bhagavad Gita (via cjspoolstra)

But I disappear into the person I love. I am the permeable membrane. If I love you, you can have everything. You can have my time, my devotion, my ass, my money, my family, my dog, my dog’s money, my dog’s time—everything. If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will project upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else.
Elizabeth Gilbert | Eat, Pray, Love (via thelifeofabelladonna)

You open your heart knowing that there’s a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible. You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that’s so real it scares you.
Bob Marley