May 2013
93 posts
“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential-as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.”
—Bill Watterson (via idterab)
“Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor.”
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Proverbs 21:21 (via resolutewoman)
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)
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“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.”
—Rachel Naomi Remen (via embracethevision)
“There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.”
—Han Suyin (via theriverjordyn)
“Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.”
—Rumi (via heyfranhey)
