“His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

#grief #wisdom

“It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

#revenge

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

#faithless #darktimes #leaving

Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness.

John O'Donohue

#kindness

“Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.”

John O'Donohue

#friendship #love #recognition

“…to gaze into the face of another is to gaze into the depth and entirety of his life.”

John O'Donohue

#face #depth #gaze

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it.

Stephen Levin

#memory #tension #difficult

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#compassion #self #other

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

James Thurber

#anger #fear #awareness

“Words are never ‘only words’; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.”

Slavoj Žižek

#words #contours

I've learned one lesson in all my days, it's this: Life starts new, every sunrise.

Richard Bach

#life #newday

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Baldwin

#karma

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

John Steinbeck

#advice #corroboration

The basic for any approach to self-transformation is an ever-increasing awareness of reality and the shedding of illusions.

Erich Fromm

#reality

Do not give up. Remember, it is always the last key on the key ring that opens the door.

Paulo Coelho

#patience #hope

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Rumi

#Knowing #ignoring

She died, and left to me
This heath, this calm and quiet scene,
The memory of what has been,
And never more will be.

William Wordsworth

#dying #legacy #memory #calm #acceptance

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.”

E. L. Doctorow

#writing #exploration #learning

“Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.”

Claude Bernard

#known #unknown #learning

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore”

Andre Gide

#risk #discovery