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#1

“The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle鈥攊t is in you.”
― Meindert DeJong, The Little Cow and the Turtle

tags: longing, restlessness, trains

62 likes

#2

“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

tags: a-game-of-thrones, a-song-of-ice-and-fire, coldness, fear, forest, george-r-r-martin, north, snow, the-wall, trees, wind, winter

347 likes

#2

“She was a free bird one minute: queen of the world and laughing. The next minute she would be in tears like a porcelain angel, about to teeter, fall and break. She never cried because she was afraid that something 'would' happen; she would cry because she feared something that could render the world more beautiful, 'would not' happen.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

tags: bipolar, depression, euphoria, feminine, feminity, girls, joy, manic, mood-swings, pain, quotes-for-women, roman-payne, tears, wanderess, women

302 likes

#3

“The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with
disappointment to the ground”
― Jamie McGuire, Beautiful Disaster

tags: begging, disappointment, snow

235 likes

#3

“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls. Not unlike a tour of Afghanistan (though the bombs and bullets, in this case, come from the inside). At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you're living with this illness and functioning at all, it's something to be proud of, not ashamed of.
They should issue medals along with the steady stream of medication.”
― Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

tags: bipolar, courage, depression, drinking, illness, manic-depression, medication, mental, mental-health, mental-illness, shame, sigma

343 likes

#4

“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: snow

225 likes

#4

“You cannot free someone
who is caged in
their own self.”
― Anjum Choudhary, Souled Out

tags: anjumchoudhary, artist, bipolar, book, cage, couples, depression, findinglostsouls, free, i, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, instagram, instaquote, king, love, lovequotes, loveyou, loveyourself, loveyourselfmovement, me, motivation, motivational, peace, poem, poems, poet, poetess, queen, self-help, selfrespect, souledout, strength, stress, strong, strong-woman, true-love, truth, us, writer, writing, you

40 likes

#5

“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

tags: magic, snow, southern, the-south, winter

187 likes

#5

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
― Aldo Leopold

tags: environment, nature, wilderness

1379 likes

#6

“In your hands winter
is a book with cloud pages
that snow pearls of love.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

tags: angel-of-earth-days-and-seasons, anti-air-pollution, books, cold-weather, ecological-sustainability, environmentalism, famous-poems, famous-quotes, haiku, holiday-romance, inspirational, inspiring-authors, inspiring-books, literature, love, nanowrimo, nature, quotes-about-winter, snow, the-river-of-winged-dreams, winter-season, winter-time-haiku

56 likes

#7

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

tags: eyes, god, knowledge, love, medieval, mysticism, religious-experience, seeing, understanding, vision

759 likes

#9

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

134486 likes

#10

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

81391 likes

#11

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

73861 likes

#12

“Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes.”
― George Carlin

tags: evangelism, freedom-of-religion, religion, tolerance

2120 likes

#13

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.”
― Kahlil Gibran

1528 likes

#14

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: friendship, love

22880 likes

#14

“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: choices, focus, humility, judgement, judgemental, self, tolerance

1314 likes

#15

“If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.”
― Gene Roddenberry

tags: community, diversity, idic, tolerance

245 likes

#15

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage

42168 likes

#16

“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
― Jack London

tags: charity, dogs, sharing

929 likes

#16

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life

tags: empathy, friends, friendship, inspirational

14170 likes

#17

“This life is for loving, sharing, learning, smiling, caring, forgiving, laughing, hugging, helping, dancing, wondering, healing, and even more loving. I choose to live life this way. I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, 'aw shit, he's up!”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: caring, dancing, devil, forgiving, healing, helping, hugging, inspirational, laughing, learning, life, loving, loving-choices, motivational, sharing, smiling, wondering

571 likes

#17

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

113785 likes

#18

“It ain't no fun if the homies can't have none. ”
― Snoop Dogg

tags: friendship, fun, homies, rap, sharing

266 likes

#19

“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy

7453 likes

#19

“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
― Albert Camus

tags: forgiveness, happiness, sharing, success, you

129 likes

#20

“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language."

I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end.

And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.”
― Audre Lorde

tags: feminism, revolution, silence, speaking-out, truth

1113 likes