Please understand this:
Bad chapters can still create great stories. Wrong paths can still lead to right places. Failed dreams can still create successful people. Sometimes it takes losing yourself to find yourself.
~ Cynthia Thurlow
Bad Chapters Can Still Create Great Stories
I Think it’s Beautiful, the Way You Carry the Pain
I think it’s beautiful, the way you carry the pain as long as you need to, until it doesn’t hurt anymore, and finally put it down, lay it to rest, and only visit it again to grab the knowledge from the lesson. And sometimes you place flowers on the grave of what you learned, but this time you don’t cry, and that is everything.
~ Stephanie Bennett-Henry
I Think Unconditional Love is a Beautiful Thing
I think unconditional love is a beautiful thing, so long as we don’t use it against ourselves. I can love all of humanity, but that doesn’t mean that I will put up with all of humanity. The boundary, for me, is set at healthy self-regard. When my unconditional love for another undermines my self-respect, the fence goes up. Not because I don’t believe in their possibilities, but because I have come to realize that there is no value in sacrificing my actuality for their potentiality.
I make a distinction between human potential—which may well be infinite- and human reality- which is often quite finite, particularly in those who choose, over decades, to remain asleep. Yes they may well awaken, but we should never postpone any part of our own life waiting for that to happen. Unconditional love begins at home, with the protecting and honoring of our own unique journey.
~ Jeff Brown
Mental Pain is Less Dramatic than Physical Pain
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
~ C.S. Lewis
When you’re Constantly Thinking of Others
When you’re constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are.
~ Michael Soll
