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Care and love, for us, are pronounced clearest through service:
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Live with intention. Before you do something, ask yourself why. Ask yourself what you want. Ask yourself why you want it. Ask yourself how you want to feel and how you want to live. Investigate. The clarity of knowing what you care about and what motivates you helps you to be better at allowing those things to guide your decision-making.
Cleo Wade • Heart Talk: Poetic Wisdom for a Better Life
Like the mother who is careful about those she brings home to meet her child because she wants to create stable attachments, we must be similarly cautious with our hearts.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
PULL THE THORNS FROM YOUR heart. Then you will see the rose gardens within you,” wrote Rumi,
Sharon Salzberg • Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
We live in a culture that makes means and commodity out of ripping each other apart,
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
... See moreNo one can love you enough. Build a shelter for the flies and the wasps instead. Make houses for the rats and the owls and the bluebirds. Sit for hours in the shade and watch how these tiny citizens move, floating or drifting or scrabbling over stones, swooping or creeping in rings of shadow, rings of light. Make space inside your liquid heart for
Her light glows with heartbreaking beauty, but she is unaware of her value. Such a light, whether it be the glow of a woman’s creative life, her wild soul, her physical beauty, her intelligence, or her generosity, always attracts the predator. Such a light that is also unaware and unprotected is always a target.
Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
There is no way to give kindness to another without knowing it in ourselves first. We must continually ask ourselves (especially on our tough days when we are feeling the most hurt or irritated): Is this the kindest thought I could have? Is this the kindest thing I could say? Is this the kindest action I could take in this situation? To achieve a k
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