The very measure of a good relationship is in how much it encourages optimal intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth. So, if a relationship becomes destructive, endangers our human dignity, prevents us from growing, continually depresses and demoralizes us – and we have done everything we can to prevent its failure – then, unless we are masochists and enjoy misery, we must eventually terminate it. We are not for everyone, and everyone is not for us. The question is: If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Source: thesweetbee
The Sensual Starfish: From Carl Sagan
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and…
Source: thesensualstarfish
I began to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
Source: teeaah
You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.
Azar Nafisi
(via in-finite-lee)
Source: paradoxicalsentiments
A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.
Haruki Murakami - The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Source: whenthecicadascry
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