Basically the most important thing we can learn in life
one of my all time faves
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I think you can make a hole in somebody’s mashed potatoes, okay? And you can make that gravy come down just like lava. You can do that 3,000 times, and they’ll never appreciate it until the first day it’s not there.
Cory Matthews (via powerplay7)
A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.
from Zen Shin Talks (via ispysj)
My mother used to say to me, ‘You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you.’ And these words played and bothered me, I didn’t really understand them until finally I realized that beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume. It was something that I just had to be. And what my mother meant by saying that you can’t eat beauty is that you can’t rely on beauty to sustain you. What actually sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflames the heart and enchants the soul.
Lupita Nyong’o (via cestlavieparis)
It is good thing to learn the truth one’s self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch. When as a woman life and people disappoint her, she will have had practice in disappointment and it will not come so hard. In teaching your child do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via quotes-shape-us)
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