“And while a difficult past may seem at first to hamper our living our life's purpose, sometimes it serve the purpose, too. Or it is the purpose—to fully experience and understand a certain kind of human problem.”
Source: The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
“The effect of a single good deed could last for centuries, like planting a sapling of a long-living tree or writing a book that humans can benefit from generation after generation, or discovering a medicine, or inventing a useful invention. The power of good deeds could last forever; it is us who decide whether to leave a good impact during our lives or not.”
“Everyone thinks I have a death wish, ya know. But I don't want to die. Dying is easy. No I want to live. But getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do it makes you realize that everything you were doing before wasn't actually living. It was just making due. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.”
Source: A Gathering of Shadows
“The dead can neither protect nor guide the living. They died.”
“Life is like oignons and potatoes; you ought to peel them and cook to know the taste, and not only how they look in the outside.”
Source: A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
“After a tragedy, I think God gives us a period of numbing as a kind of grace. Perhaps he knows our small minds, given so easily to false hope, couldn't handle the full brunt of reality.”
Source: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
“We're led to believe that all these material things will make us happy, that they signify success and contentment, when, in actual fact, the opposite is true. All that this clutter does is anchor you to one place. I think all you really need to be happy is what that little girl down on the beach has - the sun on your back, food on the table and someone to love who loves you in return. If it's so simple, though, why do we dither around for so many years looking for something else?”
Source: Then. Now. Always.
“It is in the acceptance of truth that real wisdom and peace come. It is in the acceptance of truth that real living begins. Conversely, avoidance of truth is the denial of life.”
Source: The Unwinding of the Miracle: A Memoir of Life, Death, and Everything That Comes After
“before you,
i stand, and
i realize, that
i never knew how good life was,
before you”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography
“when you are there, be truly present, be into that moment, 100%, and that place, or person, or experience will forever become part of you”
Source: Bodhi Smith Impressionist Photography