“My philosophy is: What people say about me is none of my business, I am who I am do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And that makes life easier. We live in a world where funerals are more important than the deceased, marriage is more important than love, looks are more important than the soul. We live in a packaging culture that despises content.”
Sir Anthony Hopkins
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and travelled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.
Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous adventure.
Oliver Sacks
As you get older, you really just want to be surrounded by good people. People that are good for you, good to you, and good for your soul.
CF
I think one of the hardest thing you can ever do is walk away from someone you love, knowing your path together only goes this far. Like a child digging their heels in refusing to budge, you’ll want to stay put. To try and squeeze yourself into the mould you know you don’t fit.
Settle for “enough” when you know your heart deserves more.
Choose this version of yourself over the one you are destined to become. And just know, no matter how much it hurts to leave someone you love, doing so is your promise that you will never leave yourself. Not choosing them, is choosing you.
CF
Focus
If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow.
LCQ
Never confuse education with intelligence.
You can have a master’s degree And still be an idiot.
My mind still
talks to you. My heart
still looks for you but
my soul knows you’re
at peace. I miss you
every single day.
In the long run, the sharpest
weapon of all is a kind and
gentle spirit.
Anne Frank
Your ancestors did not survive
everything that nearly ended them
for you to shrink yourself
to make someone else
comfortable.
This sacrifice is your warcry,
be loud,
be everything
and make them proud.
Nikita Gill