“Be who you were before all that stuff happened that dimmed your fucking shine.”
“Pain burried alive does not die. It grows more and more toxic before errupting...”
“Life’s pretty simply, you know? It’s long periods of waiting, broken up by brief moments of change. That’s it. That’s all.”
“You want to do the minimum amount of work to afford the maximum amount of time doing the things you love. THAT’s the way I want to live!”
“Each of us is greater than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
“There is no longevity in a weak foundation.”
“Beware of destination addiction: the idea that happiness is in the next place, the next job or with the next partner. Until you give up the idea that happiness is somewhere else, it will never be where you are.”
“Pain is a part of life but having a positive relationship with it opens up the opportunity for empowered choice.”
“If we’re lucky, we’re all going to grow old. And for most of us, when we get old, the world becomes less interested in us. Let’s pray we don’t draw our relevancy from outside interests. But intrinsically, from our own self value.”
“‘It’s odd,’ the Warrior of the Light says to himself. ‘I have met so many people, who at first opportunity, try to show their very worst qualities. They hide their inner strength behind aggression and hide their fear of loneliness behind an air of independence. They do not believe in their own abilities but are constantly trumpeting their virtues.’
A Warrior reads these messages in many of the men and women that he meets. He is never taken in by appearances and makes a point of remaining silent when people try to impress him. He uses these occasions to correct his own faults, for other people make an excellent mirror.
A Warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.”
“It was when I realized I needed to stop trying to be somebody else and be myself, I actually started to own, accept, and love what I had.”
Actress Zoe Saldana touches on her strong sense of self, relationships, and the bond she shares with her sisters. - via "The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet"
“You can’t numb yourself to pain and expect to feel love when it arrives. Numb is numb. Either you feel both or you lose both.”
“If someone has so much of something already, there’s very little you can add.”
“Some people will want to build you, and then they’ll want you to love them for who they are.”