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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”  C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“…but she never wanted to be in a relationship again. Because relationships were the worst. So many obligations. So many compromises. So many arguments. Someone always got destroyed in the end. Sometimes everyone got destroyed in the end.”  —  Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins

You aren't approachable if you don't reach out to others. It's a two way street. Why don't you go first?

“I'm taking this time to create my day and I'm infecting the quantum field. Now if (it) is in fact the observer's watching me the whole time that I'm doing this and there is a spiritual aspect to myself, then show me a sign today that you paid attention to any one of these things that I created, and bring them in a way that I won't expect, so I'm as surprised at my ability to be able to experience these things. And make it so that I have no doubt that it's come from you,' and so I live my life, in a sense, all day long thinking about being a genius or thinking about being the glory and the power of God or thinking about being unconditional love.”   -Joe Dispenza, What The Bleep

"When you plant lettuce and i t does not grow well , you don't blame the let t uce. You l ook for reasons it is not do i ng we l l. It may need fertilizer, or more water , or l ess sun.   You never blame the l ettuce.  Yet , if we ha v e prob l ems with our friends or fam i ly (or s t udents or co - workers), w e blame  the other person . But, if we know how t o take ca r e of them, they will grow we ll , li ke the lettuce.  B l aming has no pos iti ve effect at all , nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument . I f you understand, and you show that you understand, the si t ua t ion w i l l cha n ge ." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"What’s talked about is a dream. What’s envisioned is exciting. What’s planned becomes possible. What’s scheduled is real." ~Tony Robbins

"Isn't it time to put away the frustration & fear & just take massive action? All change happens in a moment...a moment of decision! Act now!" - Tony Robbins

"Practice asking yourself W.A.I.T= Why Am I Talking?" - Anne Lamott

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”  ― Epictetus

This is one of the most breathtaking things I've read in a long time.  Written by Jeanette LeBlanc. blessed-be-your-longing

"By each crime & every kindness, we birth our future." -David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

" Can love really travel back in time and heal a broken heart? Was it our joined hands that finally lifted Maria's curse? I'd like to think so. But there are some things I know for certain: always throw spilt salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can."  ~Practical Magic 

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past & present, & by each crime & every kindness, we birth our future.”  ~Cloud Atlas

"You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better" Anne Lamott

“People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. An optimist is neither naive, nor blind to the facts, nor in denial of grim reality. An optimist believes in the optimal usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. An idealist focuses only on the best aspects of all things (sometimes in detriment to reality); an optimist strives to find an effective solution. A pessimist sees limited or no choices in dark times; an optimist makes choices. When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie. Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!” ― Vera Nazarian , The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything that mattered except one lousy picture was in the trash, but it felt so great. I started jogging, wanting to put even more distance between myself and school. It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world.” ― John Green , Paper Towns

“There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.” ― Kate DiCamillo , Because of Winn-Dixie

Did you tackle that trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful? Or hide your face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful? Oh, a trouble’s a ton, or a trouble’s an ounce, Or a trouble is what you make it. And it isn’t the fact that you’re hurt that counts, But only how did you take it? You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what’s that? Come up with a smiling face. It’s nothing against you to fall down flat, But to lie there -- that’s disgrace. The harder you’re thrown, why the higher you bounce; Be proud of your blackened eye! It isn’t the fact that you’re licked that counts; It’s how did you fight and why? And though you be done to death, what then? If you battled the best you could; If you played your part in the world of men, Why, the Critic will call it good. Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce, And whether he’s slow or spry, It isn’t the fact that you’re dead that counts, But only, how did you die? ~Edmund Vance Cook (1866-1932) ...

I found this on Facebook via my friend, Terry. This is such an awesome reminder and really reiterates something I talked about with the kids earlier in the week.  Thanks for posting this, Terry.   "When we say things like "people don't change" it drives scientist crazy because change is literally the only constant in all of science. Energy. Matter. It's always changing, morphing, merging, growing, dying. It's the way people try not to change that's unnatural. The way we cling to what things were instead of letting things be what they are. The way we cling to old memories instead of forming n ew ones. The way we insist on believing despite every scientific indication that anything in this lifetime is permanent. Change is constant. How we experience change that's up to us. It can feel like death or it can feel like a second chance at life. If we open our fingers, loosen our grips, go with it, it can feel like pure adrenaline. Like at any ...

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.  Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."     Ayn Rand