There Is Beauty Here

“The best gift you are ever going to give someone - the permission to feel safe in their own skin. To feel worthy. To feel like they are enough.”

“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”

“ men are going to come along and wanna teach you things. doesn’t make them any smarter. In most ways they’re not. But it makes them feel bigger. They can show you how things are done. You just let them blow by, and you go on ahead, and you do just what the hell you feel like. It takes a strong woman to stay by herself, in a world where people will settle for anything, Just to say they have something.”

“Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart, and learn to love the questions themselves.”

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

“I knew it wasn’t too important, but it made me sad anyway.”