Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.
Thomas Gold Appleton
Can I say that I am good? We are a mixed bunch, Americans At our best when stepping forward to embrace they who have no home, willing to die defend, speak, go where others fear, and even to dream of springtime in Paris
Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax
Pema Chodron
Today you think maybe it is time to be the one you forgot to be, the most true version. It's important to begin teaching yourself this. The way is easier than you know, to let go and lighten your own load, lift up that beautiful face and finally let yourself relax
The lights are on but I'm not home drifting among cirrus and cumulonimbus I hear a voice speaking and recognize it as my own but who is dreaming this world?
You think your life must end Listen carefully: it is time to die Not your body nor your mind just this way of living It may even be your own brave soul hastening your departure She knows this life is just too small for you
Be truthful, gentle, and fearless
Gandhi
Today, decide to be braver than ever before, truthful with your own sweet soul, gentle with your imperfections and launch yourself into this world, fearless
Here are the stories you tell yourself when, sleepless, you walk the floors of this borrowed house: I am not enough and never will be I am too much and always was Weary, it is hard to know the truth of yourself the unrelenting beauty
but love is the sky and I am for you
e.e. cummings
I want nothing but this moment and this love so present that it is taste, touch, sound, the whole body alive, the sky lit by every radiant star, and more than that I hope that we are, I am paying rapt attention for this is the world ablaze in you
Do or do not. There is no try.
Yoda
what will you do with your days, months or years? we do not know when we will not be here or there or anywhere. Is there someone there was no room to be? Now do more than try.
I don’t know where it all begins…. and I don’t know where it all will end….we’re better off for all that we let in.
Emily Ann Saliers
We're just as we should be better apart than together off and on long enough for us both to know all that remains is that with kisses and tears we let that way of living go let this way of loving come in and finally redeem us
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
e.e. cummings
Why listen? deeds alone matter. I cannot make you long for or dream of me, but what comes next, these dreams will deeds inspire and can birth all we are to do
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