Within Light

If someone treats you badly recognize that there is something wrong with them, not you. Normal people do not go around destroying other people.

I love you, but I hate you. I miss you, but I’m better off without you. I want you our of my life, but I never want to let you go.

Stop trying to change someone who doesn’t want to change. Stop giving chances to someone who abuses your forgiveness. Stop running back to the place where your heart ran from. Stop trusting their words and ignoring their actions. Stop breaking your own heart.

The saddest truth is realising you have fallen madly in love with what can never be.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Silence is filled with loud wisdom.

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

There is violence today in the name of religion, because we lack genuine feelings of compassion towards others.