hana77

“No offence but i think a lot of us me included don’t actually want romantic love as badly as we think and really are just lonely and crave a closeness and intimacy that feels out of reach in friendships because of society’s emphasis on marriage and the nuclear family so we project that into the never ending search for a perfect love and a soulmate when really we all just want to mean something to someone.”

“Half of me is a hopeless romantic and the other half is just hopeless.”

“Overthinking is the biggest cause of unhappiness.”

“Happiness is a how, not a what. A talent, not an object.”

“They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.”

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”

“Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell, spirituality is for those who’ve been there.”

“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”

“You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.”

“To one's enemies: "I hate myself more than you ever could.”

“Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.”

“When we try to help people, we have to be aware: are we doing it for them, or are we doing it because we want their approval?
If you're doing it for them, just be there with them, and for them, in a space of love.”

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”

“which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?”

“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

“Anybody who's ever been broken up with, or had their heart stepped on or ripped out of them; you question everything you've based your whole life on. It's like, is anything real? Cause nothing 's more real than that, and now it's gone.”