Love doesn't mean "I want you" or "I want you to be mine", neither "you're good looking" or "you're sexy"... Doesn't mean "I can't live without you" or "I need you", or "let's be together forever" or any of those things it is often mistaken for.
What it actually means is: "I really like, respect and appreciate who you are in all your realness and sovereignty, and if there is anything I can offer, without compromising my true nature, that will help you on your path, then it will be a gift to me if you'll allow me to give it."
In this way I find I am loving more and more people every day.
🎨Diletta Innocenti Fagni
"You cannot run from yourself ever. The mirror always returns. The reflection lives on until you truly look. The demon cannot die until you say its name. Face everything. Your ways will find you in every corner of every country and crisis and crumb until you return to your heart." 📖Victoria Erickson🥀
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it but what they become by it." ~ J. Ruskin
“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you.
What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”
You are a brave heart. The way you have chosen to rise from the fire that tried to burn you down only shows how strong you truly are. You picked yourself up when no one else offered you a hand, dusted yourself off, rubbed some dirt in your wounds, and continued to move.
Even though the ones you loved abandoned you, you became your own best friend. After all, the most important person that will be there for you through the end is yourself.
You are a brave heart. Because you don't allow any of your setbacks to keep you from the life you were born to live. Keep doing what you're doing, because you're doing an incredible job.
🎨Anna Razumovskaya
The quote I live by from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy "There's no point driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad, you may as well give in and save your sanity for later."
Just embrace the chaos of life and go with the flow rather than worrying about it
"Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you. If you leave it, you may come back again, saying Here.
No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you."
Author: David Wagoner
Art: Julia Tar
You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
Albert Camus
@TxTom Yeah, it's too easy to be mad at people online .....AND also to simply not try to see their perspective.....since we don't see the person and we can't see/hear tone of voice and body language.
That's why a lot of online communication (especially if it's a high emotion topic) tends to devolve into chaos, no matter if it's on reg social media or a cuddle site. Humans just aren't meant to communicate mostly without being able to see/hear each other. Or at least not about matters that are personal and emotional.
There are trolls tho... Those who use the deficits in online communication to their advantage in order to get dopamine from stirring the pot and starting sh*t with others. There's no real "cost" to them being jerks, but they get to suck people's high emotion from the chaos they leave in their wake. Kinda like Dementors from HP 😒
@Ineedahugortwo I can relate to that.