"To hold our tongues when everyone is gossiping, to smile without hostility at people and institutions, to compensate for the shortage of love in the world with more love in small, private matters; to be more faithful in our work, to show greater patience, to forgo the cheap revenge obtainable from mockery and criticism: all these are things we can do."
- Hermann Hesse (via middlenameconfused)
(Source: journalofanobody, via middlenameconfused)
"Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race."
- John A. Murray (via middlenameconfused)
"You can only control your own actions. Not other people’s reactions."
- Emily Giffin
"Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world."
- Pema Chodron (via alighthouseofwords)
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
- Agnes de Mille
"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."
- Betrand Russell
