“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.” - Helen Keller
“If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.”
-Judith Martin
“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.” — -Rachel Naomi Remen (via ancora-imparo)
(via buddhassecret)
(Source: sugar-blondi, via macguffthecrimedog)
“It’s not so much that I like him as a person, God, but as a boy he’s very handsome.”
-Judy Blume
“People should pay more attention. Everyone wants attention, but no one wants to give attention.”-A.M. Homes
“Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn’t really care.”
-Roger Ebert
“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don’t I ever learn? Why don’t I ever do anything different?”
-Charles Yu