March 2012
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.”
—Erich Fromm (via larmoyante)
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”
—Golda Meir (via larmoyante)
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”
—Audrey Hepburn (via creatingaquietmind)
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
—Ernest Hemingway (via asterisk-)
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
—Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free (via creatingaquietmind)
“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.”
—Mahatma Gandhi (via creatingaquietmind)
MY STREET, MY BODY, MY RIGHT: I’m fourteen, running late for Global Studies. Breakfastless, I bolt... →
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I’m fourteen, running late for Global Studies. Breakfastless, I bolt out the door to catch the six. Instead of turning right as usual at Lexington Avenue, I take the shortcut to the station. They’re sitting at the front stoops again, right where the houses end and the deli begins. It’s humid,…
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”
—Sophocles (via kingslayer-)
