hana77

Verified author @hana77, member from Feb. 18, 2020

“I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea, How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.”

Helena Bonham Carter (1966) British actress

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“There is a crack, a crack, in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

Source: Píseň Anthem

“Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.”

Hafez (1326–1389) Persian poet

“Worrying is like praying for something you don't want.”

Robert Downey Jr. (1965) American actor

Source: Biography

“My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.”

Adyashanti (1962) Spiritual teacher

“When we risk nothing, we risk everything. Everything we intended to do. Everything we came here to be.”

Brianna Wiest (1992)

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CYB2ZX1OWBG/

“Become your own soulmate, first. The love you're waiting on someone else to give you is a desire to know yourself. It is projection of wanting to see yourself more kindly, through your someone else's eyes. The very way you most long to be loved is the way you need to love yourself to see your own potential, to care for yourself, to hear the sound of your own approval, to build a life you are proud of. Until you are your own soulmate, you will be left asking others to fill needs they were never meant to meet.”

Brianna Wiest (1992)

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CXZtfopuhII/

“What I’m learning is that growth is ugly.

It’s not bubble baths and self-help books that teach you how to love yourself.

It’s fighting, kicking and screaming against the self-doubt that weighs you down.

It’s panicking at the possibility of failure while still moving forward anyway.

It’s slowly peeling out of your skin and feeling the tenderness of a touch without armour.

The process of growth is ugly, but it’s the product that makes it worthwhile.”

Unknown author

“To love someone is firstly to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.”

Billy-Ray Belcourt (1994) poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation

Source: A History of My Brief Body

“And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Water Bound

We consider the quote as suspicious, we have no evidence supporting authorship

“Half of life is lost in charming others.
The other half is lost in going through anxieties caused by others.
Leave this play. You have played enough.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

Source: Anonymous reader point out that quote appears on internet from 2015. Rumi, having died in the 1200s, when the first mention of this quote was around 2015.

“The enemy is us.”

Jeff Bridges (1949) American actor, singer-songwriter and producer

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37195094

“I am the villain in my own life.”

Jeff Bridges (1949) American actor, singer-songwriter and producer

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37195094

“While they all fall in love with her smile she waits for one who will fall in love with her scars.”

Unknown author

“You love that which you can lose.”

movie Solaris

“Love is a feeling we can experience but never explain.”

movie Solaris

“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out, to become speedily found when they are lost. But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honour what emerges along the way. Sometimes it will be an even more luminescent flame. Sometimes it will be a flicker that temporarily floods the room with a perfect and necessary darkness.”

Heidi Priebe

“People are strange, they neither wish to live nor die.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“Nobody wants to love. Everybody wants to be loved.”

movie Night Train