Life
Quotes
When
Great Trees Fall
“Patience
Is Not the Ability to Wait:
Patience
is not the ability to wait. Patience is to be calm no matter what happens,
constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities, and have
faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“I
am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the
surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see
and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.”
―
Nikolai Gogol
“When
a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
―
Diane Von Furstenberg
“Throughout
life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal
with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.”
―
Will Smith
“I
was always an unusual girl.
My
mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no
fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as
wavering as the ocean.”
―
Lana Del Rey
“Scar
tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
―
Henry Rollins
“Parents
were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to
earn it.”
―
Ann Brashares, Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood
“When
Great Trees Fall
When
great trees fall,
rocks
on distant hills shudder,
lions
hunker down
in
tall grasses,
and
even elephants
lumber
after safety.
When
great trees fall
in
forests,
small
things recoil into silence,
their
senses
eroded
beyond fear.
When
great souls die,
the
air around us becomes
light,
rare, sterile.
We
breathe, briefly.
Our
eyes, briefly,
see
with
a
hurtful clarity.
Our
memory, suddenly sharpened,
examines,
gnaws
on kind words
unsaid,
promised
walks
never
taken.
Great
souls die and
our
reality, bound to
them,
takes leave of us.
Our souls,
dependent
upon their
nurture,
now
shrink, wizened.
Our
minds, formed
and
informed by their
radiance,
fall
away.
We
are not so much maddened
as
reduced to the unutterable ignorance
of
dark, cold
caves.
And
when great souls die,
after
a period peace blooms,
slowly
and always
irregularly.
Spaces fill
with
a kind of
soothing
electric vibration.
Our
senses, restored, never
to
be the same, whisper to us.
They
existed. They existed.
We
can be. Be and be
better.
For they existed.”
―
Maya Angelou
“Friends
are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).”
―
Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
“Roads
Go Ever On
Roads
go ever ever on,
Over
rock and under tree,
By
caves where never sun has shone,
By
streams that never find the sea;
Over
snow by winter sown,
And
through the merry flowers of June,
Over
grass and over stone,
And
under mountains in the moon.
Roads
go ever ever on,
Under
cloud and under star.
Yet
feet that wandering have gone
Turn
at last to home afar.
Eyes
that fire and sword have seen,
And
horror in the halls of stone
Look
at last on meadows green,
And
trees and hills they long have known.
The
Road goes ever on and on
Down
from the door where it began.
Now
far ahead the Road has gone,
And
I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing
it with eager feet,
Until
it joins some larger way,
Where
many paths and errands meet.
The
Road goes ever on and on
Down
from the door where it began.
Now
far ahead the Road has gone,
And
I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing
it with weary feet,
Until
it joins some larger way,
Where
many paths and errands meet.
And
whither then? I cannot say.
The
Road goes ever on and on
Out
from the door where it began.
Now
far ahead the Road has gone.
Let
others follow, if they can!
Let
them a journey new begin.
But
I at last with weary feet
Will
turn towards the lighted inn,
My
evening-rest and sleep to meet.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
“If
you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion
will drive you there.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“How
can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life.
It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.”
― W.
Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“When
it's over, I want to say: all my life
I
was a bride married to amazement.
I
was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
When
it is over, I don't want to wonder
if I
have made of my life something particular, and real.
I
don't want to find myself sighing and frightened,
or
full of argument.
I
don't want to end up simply having visited this world.”
―
Mary Oliver
“It's
better to burn out than to fade away.”
―
Neil Young
“Perfectionism
is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you
cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and
a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief
that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you
won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of
people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better
than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
―
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
“It's
not the men in your life that matters, it's the life in your men.”
―
Mae West
“Those
who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”
―
Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke
“I
will not try to convince you to love me, to respect me, to commit to me. I
deserve better than that; I AM BETTER THAN THAT...Goodbye.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“It
has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and
generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants
of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed,
acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of
success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of
the second.”
―
John Steinbeck, Cannery Row
“You
must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
