I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
— Amy Tan, Saving Fish From Drowning (via larmoyante)
Another blip from The Power of Now
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation. This creates an endless preoccupation with past and future and an unwillingness to honor and acknowledge the present moment and allow it to be.
The compulsion arises because the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions. -Eckhart Tolle
While talking about our upcoming trip to Thailand over breakfast….
“Schvilo - when you go to Bangkong (what’s she’s calling Bangkok) all I ask - can you pleaz pick me up diamond and emerald earrings. Good ones schvilo! I have emerald ring and I cannot wear wiz out. All ze Russians are buying ze diamonds in Bangkok.”
- Mom #2
I was at a total loss for words. First, I’ve never known or heard of Bangkok being the spot for reputable fine jewelry. Second, she’s the only person in the world I know who doesn’t just want a shirt that says “Someone who visited the pumping pussy palace loves me” - she needs straight up diamond and emerald earrings.
Oy.
Lovin’ her was easier than anything I’ll ever do again.
— Kris Kristofferson
(Source: musingsofadomesticdiva)
I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.
— Sofia Coppola (via candanceismixed)
(Source: MUSinGsofadomesticdiva, via bycandance)
The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.
— Alain de Botton, On Love (via justbesplendid)
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.
— Fred Rogers (via dearworld)
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We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.
— ― Robert Fulghum, True Love (via justbesplendid)
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
— Charles Kingsley (via pinmywings)
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