“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.” Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
“Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.” Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters Source: Invisible Monsters
“When you look deeply into yourself you may be able to see that there is, in this moment, a quality of aliveness that is animating you that is not philosophical and is not abstract. It's independent of what you think about it, what you believe about it and what you feel about it. It's always there! it is animating your breath, It is coursing the spirit, it is what makes it possible for you to think and speak and see and hear.” Alexis Karpouzos (1967) Source: The self-criticism of science
“Until you do what you believe in, you don’t know whether you believe it or not.” Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
“If you need time to achieve something, it must be false. The real is always with you; you need not wait to be what you are.” Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru
“Maybe what you need is someone to talk to. Someone who'll make you feel understood even if they really don't understand you. Someone who's willing to listen. Who's willing to just be there for you even if they have nothing meaningful to say. Maybe that's what you really need. A friend. Someone who's not there to fix you but willing to cheer and support you… while you figure things out and heal on your own.” Robert Macias Drake (R. M. Drake) Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcO-n-zNrue/
“You are not accidental.Existence needs you.Without you,something will be missing in existenceand nobody can replace it.That's what gives you dignitythat the whole existence will miss you.The stars and sun and moon,the trees, the birds,the earth everything in the universewill feel a small place is vacantwhich cannot be filled by anybodyexcept you.” Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
“We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life. But you can't just wish it, you can't just hope it, you can't just want it… you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it.” Steve Maraboli (1975)
“Do not love half loversDo not entertain half friendsDo not live half a lifeand do not die a half deathIf you choose silence, then be silentWhen you speak, do so until you are finishedDo not silence yourself to say somethingAnd do not speak to be silentIf you accept, then express it bluntlyDo not mask itIf you refuse then be clear about itfor an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptanceDo not accept half a solutionDo not believe half truthsDo not dream half a dreamDo not fantasize about half hopesHalf the way will get you no whereHalf an idea will bear you no resultsHalf a life is a life you didn't live,A word you have not saidA smile you postponedA love you have not hadA friendship you did not knowThe half is a mere moment of inabilitybut you are able for you are not half a beingYou are a whole that exists to live a lifenot half a life.” Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese artist, poet, and writer Source: báseň Do Not Love Half Lovers
“What, if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life must return to you, all in the same succession and sequence — even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again—and you with it, speck of dust!’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!’ If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, “do you want this once more and innumerable times more?” would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?” movie When Nietzsche Wept (movie)