“Controllers, abusers and manipulative people don’t question themselves. They don’t ask themselves if the question is them. They always say the problem is someone else.”
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“Remember that really time when you were going through hell and you weren’t sure you could handle much more, and it seemed your world was crashing down around you, and you really wished it would all end? You handled it. It’s over. You made it.”
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purplebuddhaproject“The truth is that nobody is owed an apology for anything. Apologies are lovely when they happen. But they change nothing. They do not reverse actions or correct damage. They are merely nice to hear.”
— Augusten Burroughs
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purplebuddhaproject“You must love her because many have tried and failed. And she wants to know that she is worthy to be loved, that she is worthy to be kept.”
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Junot Díaz
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purplebuddhaproject“And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.”
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“Just because you can feel another person’s emotions doesn’t make you responsible for them.”
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“Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.”
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purplebuddhaproject“Be with someone who will take care of you. Not materialistically, but take care of your soul, your well-being, your heart, and everything that’s you.”
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poems-and-word“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
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Judgmental criticism is one thing; judicious criticism is actually a gift. That’s why the Buddha never formulated a precept against talking about other people’s faults or errors, because there are times when you have to speak up against harmful behavior. Otherwise it goes uncorrected, people take it as a model, and the civilization slips one notch further away.
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
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We do have the potential to awaken, but we must do the hard work of distinguishing when we are motivated by greed, hatred, and delusion, and when we are motivated by their opposites—generosity, kindness, and wisdom.
Lynn Kelly (via cultivating-kindness)
I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die.
Juan Ramón Jiménez, “I Am Not I,” translated by Robert Bly
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Those years weren’t lost. They simply weren’t the way I’d planned them.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Every 7 years, the cells in your entire body will be destroyed and replaced with new cells. One day I will have a body you will have never touched.
3 am thoughts. (via impatapoon)
Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.
Nina LaCour, Hold Still
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All perception is coloured by emotion.
Immanuel Kant (via stardust-seedling)
Indeed.
(via wicked-naughty-diva)
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton (via amazingquotesforwomen)