just-someone

“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”

“Don’t do something permanently stupid just because you’re temporarily upset.”

“You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.”

“A person hears only what they understand.”

me: does anything

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.”

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”

“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others.”

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”

“I withdraw from people and places from time to time. I need space from a world that is filled with millions of mouths that talk too much but never have anything to say.”

“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more than what they see.”

“Inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”