“Sintiéndose radiante por el brillo de las llamas, alzándose sobre él y sus burdas maquinaciones, Shallan comprendió.
La expectación no era lo que la gente esperaba de alguien.
Era lo que uno esperaba de sí mismo.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“I am proceeding to return to my authentic self, except this time around I will maintain more reasonable edges in position and a heightened self-regard.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“But I have now realized how miserable I am when I am around him, and it has forced me to look into myself and find the parts of me that are so comfortable being around someone who makes me sad.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“You can only get away with being guided by your restrictions for so long until the universe intervenes and seize everything you’re utilizing to shield yourself from evolving.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“but most days, I feel grateful that life offered me a chance to choose between living in misery and finding inner peace, and I chose the latter.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“When I constantly beg someone to treat me right, love and respect me, I am projecting the kind of love I wish to receive and know I deserve, but I have somehow allowed my limitations to inform me that I need to crawl on my knees, appealing for this love.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“Sometimes, what they teach you is absurd, and if you don’t challenge it, you negligently make flawed decisions in life. And this is particularly towards girl children. When your mama taught you to pray when your partner is abusing and mistreating you, her decision was informed from her own flawed self-esteem.”
Source: From Seeking To Radiating Love: Evolution is unavoidable in the process of overpowering doubt
“Why do you hold back? Is it fear? Fear of what, losing, being judged, pain? All things on earth are temporary. Don’t leave this world in regret.”
“What I desire desires me.”
Source: African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy
“In that moment, I saw myself as he saw me, I understood the shape I took in his life: I was, paradoxically, simultaneously too much and not enough. And all my life since then I had tried to rectify that. I had silently taken instructions on how to be better from everywhere I could glean them: when I was freshman and my locker was next to where a group of senior guys would laugh and murmur things about girls walking by (too much makeup; too small an ass; not enough makeup; too loud; kind of a bitch because she'd turned one of them down).”
Source: When We Were Infinite