“I ask what did I do? But I think I already know.
It wasn’t me, it was you.
And that makes it all the more unbearable.”
– DeepandMeaningless
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In – William Blake
“Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
– William Blake
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Change – Viktor E. Frankl
“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.”
– Viktor E. Frankl
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Problems – Robert H. Schuller
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
– Robert H. Schuller
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Building – James Clear
“Do you need to start or finish? Are you building a body or building a bridge?”
– James Clear
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Decision to Act – Amelia Earhart
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.”
– Amelia Earhart
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Feel it – Rumi
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?”
— Rumi
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We – William Shakespeare
“We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”
– William Shakespeare
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Everyone wants – Doris Lessing
“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who’d be kind to me. That’s what people really want, if they’re telling the truth.”
– Doris Lessing
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Alone – George Washington
“It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.”
– George Washington
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Gardeners – Marcel Proust
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
– Marcel Proust
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Love – Eric Fromm
“Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling, it is a practice.”
– Eric Fromm
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We’re all going to die – Charles Bukowski
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorised and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski
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Two ideas – James Baldwin
“It began to seem that one would have to hold in the mind forever two ideas which seemed to be in opposition. The first idea was acceptance, the acceptance, totally without rancor, of life as it is, and men as they are: in the light of this idea, it goes without saying that injustice is a commonplace. But this did not mean that one could be complacent, for the second idea was of equal power: that one must never, in one’s own life, accept these injustices as commonplace but must fight them with all one’s strength. This fight begins, however, in the heart and it now had been laid to my charge to keep my own heart free of hatred and despair.”
– James Baldwin
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Good relationships – Michelle Weiner-Davis
“People have different ‘love languages,’ for some people, touch makes them feel loved; for others it’s meaningful conversations, or how much time you spend together. But if you’re married to someone whose love language is touch, you can buy them expensive gifts or take them on vacations or say I love you until the cows come home, but it won’t matter because it won’t mean love. In good relationships, partners try to figure out each other’s love language and speak it-even if it’s different from their own. Good relationships are built on mutual caretaking.”
– Michelle Weiner-Davis