Monday's Child

Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That’s what I think. So don’t settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.

—Haruki Murakami (via awelltraveledwoman)

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…throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘here is my thanks to the monster who didn’t succeed in swallowing me alive.’

—Friedrich Nietzsche  (via thatkindofwoman)

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“I would argue that caring for your body in traditional ways- like eating a healthy diet, exercising, and taking your vitamins- may be the least important part of your health. (I know! Radical idea coming from a doctor!) This may sound shocking to you. After all, you’ve probably watched many…

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You can shed the past. You can’t shake it, but you can certainly get new skin. You can grow old and become stronger.

—Lesra Martin (via simplyaboveaverage)

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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

—Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson in his timeless Kenyon College commencement address, May 20, 1990. (via thatkindofwoman)

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Knowing can be a curse on a person’s life. I’d traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn’t know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.

— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees (via creatingaquietmind)

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Recovery itself is a very un-glamorous daily process of being willing to fall down again, to break again, to cry again, to get up and try yet again until ‘success’ manifests as ever-greater sustained healing.

—Shannon Cutts (via awelltraveledwoman)

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Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for all abundance.

—Eckhart Tolle   (via thatkindofwoman)

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