“It’s always me, running away. Sometimes, to save myself from something. Most of the time, to save something from me.”
— A. Martin
(via purplebuddhaquotes)
“Don’t be afraid to suffer; return that heaviness to the earth’s own weight; heavy are the mountains, heavy the seas.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Sonnet IV,” trans. Stephen Mitchell, in Duino Elegies & The Sonnets To Orpheus (via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)
I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
Maya Angelou (via purplebuddhaproject)
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (via purplebuddhaproject)
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness…
Kurt Vonnegut (via purplebuddhaproject)