
(more…)There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. Kate Chopin
And then there are those whose imprint resurfaces, quietly, across time. 😊
(more…)There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water. Kate Chopin
And then there are those whose imprint resurfaces, quietly, across time. 😊
(more…)“When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” – Elliot Page
(more…)“From her silence, I found my voice. From her wounds, I learned to heal.” ~ DD
(more…)“We try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming over-aroused and distressed. Our trait of sensitivity means we will also be cautious, inward, needing extra time alone. Because people without the trait (the majority) do not understand that, they see us as timid, shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming over-aroused and distressed. Then that gets us labeled neurotic or crazy, first by others and then by ourselves.” (Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person)
(more…)“The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~ Carl Jung
(more…)(more…)“The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.” Thomas Paine
“It is the things you say ‘No’ to that really show your commitment to your growth.” – Yung Pueblo, Inward
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(more…)“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” — Helen Keller
(more…)Everybody needs a safe place, and it should be their home. ~ Debbie Rowe
(more…)“When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.” Elliot Page
(more…)Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible. Wayne Dyer
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“Be like a tree. Stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your unique natural beauty. Keep growing.~ Joanne Raptis
(more…)“How do you ever explain the feelings of anxiety and paralyzing fear? I can’t answer those questions. It’s just a feeling of ‘Am I crazy? Am I too sensitive to be in this world?’ A feeling that the world is just too complicated for me right now, and I don’t feel like I belong here. But it passes, and fortunately today I feel blessed for all the good things in my life.” Winona Ryder
(more…)“As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot.” Ray Kroc
(more…)“Pain forces even the innocent to lie.” Publilius Syrus
“Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up.” Mary Holloway
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Dancing into the Danger
(more…)“Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
(more…)“Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others’ suffering.” Dalai Lama
(more…)“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
Marie Curie
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(more…)“It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine.” — Byron Katie.
(more…)Let the beauty of the sunrise keep your heart warm.
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.” – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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“Chances are you already know what you want. The question is, who is really stopping you?”
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― Hiral Nagda
(more…)“The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1929)
(more…)“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.”
— Maya Angelo
(more…)“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.”- Sheila Murray Bethel
(more…)Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult. Warren Bennis
(more…)Empathy seems to be seen as a weakness. We condition people to withdraw it to succeed. But really, it needs to be re-seen as a strength again if there is to be any kind of hope in the world.
“Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” – Helen Steiner Rice
(more…)“We Gotta Look For The Good In The Bad, The Happy In Our Sad, The Gain In Our Pain, And What Makes You Grateful Not Hateful.”– Maritoni Llorca
(more…)“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.” – Calvin Coolidge
(more…)“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
(more…)“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
— Anais Nin
(more…)One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(more…)“Map Your Own Journey. Go on your own journey. Don’t let others hold you back; don’t hold them back. Don’t judge their journey, and don’t let them judge yours. All persons are free to have the experiences their souls lead them to.”
― Melody Beattie, Journey to the Heart: Daily Meditations on the Path to Freeing Your Soul
(more…)I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice Walker
(more…)“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
(more…)“I couldn’t have dreamed you into existence because I didn’t even know I needed you. You must have been sent to me.”
― Kamand Kojouri
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Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness.Karen Fowler
“You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.” – John Steinbeck.
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“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.”
Henry Matisse
(more…)“Learning to stand in somebody else’s shoes, to see through their eyes, that’s how peace begins. And it’s up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.” ~ Barack Obama
“Peace on Earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.” ~ Helen Steiner Rice
(more…)(more…)“I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn’t changed: you have.”
― Doris Lessing
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I’m not sure what the future holds but I do know that I’m going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said ‘Nic, it is what it is, it’s not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.’
(more…)Laura Ingalls Wilder
Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don’t remember me at all.
(more…)“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” ~ E.E. Cummings
(more…)“Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.” ~ Seneca, Letter No. 52 to Lucilus
(more…)“We have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved.”
Mother Theresa
(more…)“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
~ Elenor Roosevelt
(more…)“Feed your soul by feeding the soul of others with love, kindness and compassion.”
– Daniela Nikolova
(more…)“It’s not finding what’s lost. It is understanding what you have found.
~ Alice Hoffman
(more…)“You need a change of soul than a change of climate.”
Seneca, Letter No. 8 to Lucilius
(more…)“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
― Martin Luther King Jr
(more…)“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
When the world comes knocking, crying and pleading:
“Can’t you hear me? Can’t you see me…See how I suffer? Why don’t you bother?”
Will you open or keep the door shut?
(more…)“A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.”
(more…)As the clocks slip back, days lengthen, the snow subsides, we sense the oncoming tide of Spring.
(more…)(more…)“Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
(more…)“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
― Deborah Reber, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
(more…)“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”
― Edith Lovejoy Pierce
“who are you
really?
you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gender
you are not an age
and you are not where you are from
you are your favorite books
and the songs stuck in your head
you are your thoughts
and what you eat for breakfast
on Saturday mornings
you are a thousand things
but everyone chooses
to see the million things
you are not
you are not
where you are from
you are
where you are going
and i’d like
to go there
too”
― m.k
Everything in life starts and ends with the One in the mirror.
Go with the flow,
Mandy Hale
Force nothing. Let it happen…
Trusting that whichever way it goes.
It’s for the best.
Hey You. World! My will is your will.
What’s within is without.
(more…)“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
As someone empathic, highly sensitive and quite intuitive, my I had to learn How to set boundaries – simply out of Respect for my own Self, and others.
My presence can be apparently too much for some to handle. 🌞 The pain is visible.
(more…)“It’s time to ‘RE-THINK’ and ‘RE-BUILD’ yourself.
Niharika D
Once upon a time…that’s how usually fairy tales tend to begin. And dreams and illusions are made. This is, however, no dream any longer but a dream come true.
(more…)Now what’s that all about?
(more…)To ground is to pour your energies back into the earth and feel the warm calm of nature entering your body in exchange. ~ Anonymous
1. Just for today, I will not be angry.
2. Just for today, I will not worry.
3. Just for today, I will be grateful.
4. Just for today, I will do my work honestly.
6. Just for today I will be kind to every living thing.
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There is so much coming up to the surface these days it can truly cause mental health issues when we have no way to cultivate a safe space for ourselves.
(more…)“One of the criticisms I’ve faced over the years is that I’m not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I’m empathetic, it means I’m weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate & strong.” Jacinda Ardern
(more…)The Compassionate Gardener welcomes each and every day as a New Beginning.
(more…)The Compassionate Gardener remembers the past clearly, and has never stopped to see from and with the heart.
(more…)The Compassionate Gardener is fully aware of the shifts that are happening right now in the physicality.
You are NOT alone!
(more…)The Compassionate Gardener feels inspired by Flora ~ the Roman Goddess of Flowers and Spring.
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