Our Peace

“Be with someone who will take care of you. Not materialistically, but take care of your soul, your well being, your heart.”

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself, the challenge is to silence the mind.”

“She quietly expected great things to happen to her, and no doubt that’s one of the reasons why they did.”

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.”

“It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.”

one day you think: I want to die. and then you think, very quietly: actually. actually. I think I want a coffee. a nap. a sandwich. a book. and I want to die turns day by day into want to go home, I want to walk in the woods, I want to see my friend, I want to sit in the sun, I want a cleaner kitchen, I want a better job, I want to live somewhere else. I want to live.

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.”

“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”

“You may not see it today or tomorrow, but you will look back in a few years and be absolutely awed by how every little thing added up and brought you somewhere wonderful.”

“My darling, you are allowed to fail without being a failure. You are allowed to make mistakes without being one. More opportunities will present themselves. You will find hope again.”

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."

“Don’t wait for things to get easier, simpler, better. Life will always be complicated. Learn to be happy right now. Otherwise, you’ll run out of time.”

“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyways.”