"I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body."
"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
"When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."
"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive."
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via thatkindofwoman)
I want to reblog this everytime I see it.
"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.
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"When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow."
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness."
"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone. They are a great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very centre of reality. If you are close to it, the spray will wet you: if you are not you will remain dry."
"You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake…You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that."