“We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.” –Cassandra Clare, Lord of Shadows
Quotes
Pain And Sorrow
I said: Pain and sorrow.
He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
–Rumi
In Memory of my Great-Aunt Ann, for the stars and light go with you.
No One Fights Dirtier
“No one fights dirtier or more brutally than blood; only family knows it’s own weaknesses, the exact placement of the heart. The tragedy is that one can still live with the force of hatred, feel infuriated that once you are born to another, that kinship lasts through life and death, immutable, unchanging, no matter how great the misdeed or betrayal. Blood cannot be denied, and perhaps that’s why we fight tooth and claw, because we cannot—being only human—put asunder what God has joined together.” ―Whitney Otto
It’s Strange How What Drives Us May…
“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next.
After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless.
We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete.
We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives.
The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.” ―Christopher Hawke
America Without Her Soldiers…
“America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels.” ―Claudia Pemberton
Those of Us Who Stand Outside The Circle
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society’s definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference – those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older – know that survival is not an academic skill…For the master’s tools will not dismantle the master’s house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.” ―Audre Lorde
Peace Is The Number One
“Peace is the number one beautiful ornament you can wear, I really believe that. They say you should always wear a smile, but I don’t believe that you should ‘always’ wear a smile, seriously, you’re going to look stupid! But peace, you should always carry peace within you, it is the most beautifying thing you could ever have or do. Peace makes your heart beautiful and it makes you look beautiful, too. You want to have perfect physical posture when you stand, sit, and walk, and peace is the perfect posture of the soul, really. Try perfect posture outside as well as inside. Peace creates grace and grace gives peace.” ―C. JoyBell C.
Believe In Yourself
“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.” ―Roy T. Bennett
It Is Better To Fail In Originality
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ―Herman Melville
They Say Time Heals All Wounds
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”
―Cassandra Clare
Written by LISA MARINO-Molchanova 