#birdsofafeather

#looping

#itsatrap

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”

Leo Buscaglia #kindness

Artist: Sandra Bierman

"There are people who appear to think only with the brain, while others think with all the body and all the soul, with the blood, with the marrow of the bones, with the heart, with the lungs, with the belly, with the life." #poeticliving

—Miguel de Unamuno

#emotionalmaturity

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

Mark Twain - That Innocents Abroad #MarkTwain #Travel

Artist: Christian Schloe

“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.” #yearning

― Fernando Pessoa

“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.” #compassion

― Andrew Boyd

[ Art • “Heart of Stone” by Shane Gallagher ]

“I was laying in bed one night and I thought ‘I’ll just quit...to hell with it.’ And another little voice inside me said ‘Don’t quit...save that tiny little ember of spark.’ And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.”

~Charles Bukowski #Bukowski

"What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in,

whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to

whom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorly

understood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a profound

understanding and appreciation for trees and forests and the vital

role they play, for they are among our best allies in the uncertain

future that is unfolding." #NatureLover

Jim Robbins - The Man Who Planted Trees

Artist: Ulla Thynell

It's all good. I like to hear birds and crickets and white water rapids.

#loveyouravatar

Thank you for causing me to think in a new way about transformation. I'm not sure what point you were making. I looked for the broader context and found this article. https://leadershipvoices.com/2013/12/09/some-thoughts-on-hemingway-and-hunters/

#MindTalk

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”

Carl Gustav Jung #Jung #peoplechemistry

Bernard Boutet de Monvel - Couple Near Booksellers, Norte Dame, 1881-1949

#beentheredonethat #Hell

#freedom

your life is your life

don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

be on the watch.

there are ways out.

there is light somewhere.

it may not be much light but

it beats the darkness.

be on the watch.

the gods will offer you chances.

know them.

take them.

you can’t beat death but

you can beat death in life, sometimes.

and the more often you learn to do it,

the more light there will be.

your life is your life.

know it while you have it.

you are marvelous

the gods wait to delight

in you.

-- by Charles Bukowski #Bukowski #TheLaughingHeart

“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”

–Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (1943) #quote #TheLittlePrince

Photo by Viktor Lundgren