"Never touch anything with half of your heart. Be present, endlessly loving and compassionate towards others. Confront any challenging situation first with a deep breath. Wander. Remember that your own happiness and comfort comes above all things. Before reacting—understand. Eat breakfast every morning. Find the faces in the flowers. Remember what is important to you. Treat your body kindly. Be honest. Get to know yourself. Take things at your own pace. Don’t feel embarrassed to feel, laugh, cry, sing or love. Remember that what’s right for someone else may not be what is right for you (and that’s okay). Never be ashamed or afraid to ask for help. Do what you love. Remember that you always have a choice. Find joy in what life really is—living."
How To Be A Better (Healthier & Happier) Human Being (via anjgarcia)
(Source: brittneymcbain, via anjgarcia)
The Beautiful and Damned: "Enjoy your coffee", he said.
I came upon this photo just now and remembered, how one morning, you remarked upon my haste in drinking (the coffee you had made for me, specifically.) and that I should learn to enjoy my drink. And so I thought, maybe that’s where I went wrong with us, I never really enjoyed or savored what…
"My mother taught me something; if you repeat something over and over again it loses its meaning. Our existence is the same way.
You watch the sunset too often, it just becomes six pm.
You make the same mistake over and over, you’ll stop calling it a mistake.
If you just wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up.. one day you’ll forget why.
‘Nothing is forever’, she said."
“Repetition” by Phil Kaye (via yearsofmagicalthinking)
“I have seen the best of you and the worst of you and I choose both. I want to share every single one of your sunshines and save them for later. I want to tuck them into my pockets and give them back to you when the rains fall hard. I want to be the mirror that reminds you to love yourself. I want to be the air in your lungs to remind you to breathe easy. When the walls come down, when the thunder rumbles, hold my hand, and I promise, I won’t let go.”
(Source: hiddlesholmes)
- Klaus: There is a word in German: Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz. And the closest translation would be… “Lifelong Treasure of Destiny.” And Victoria is wunderbar, but she is not my Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz. She is my Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand, you know? You know wunderbar but you don’t know Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand? That is something we learn in kindergarten. I’m sorry, “kindergarten” is the German word for–
- Ted: No, no, I know that one.
- Klaus: Oh, okay. But you don’t know Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand? You are maddeningly inconsistent. It means… “the thing that is almost the thing that you want…but it’s not quite.” Das ist Victoria to me.
- Ted: How do you know she’s not Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz? I mean, maybe as the years go by, she’ll get Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz-ier.
- Klaus: Oh, nein, nein, nein. Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz is not something that develops over time. It is something that happens instantaneously. It courses through you like the water of a river after a storm… …filling you and emptying you all at once. You feel it throughout your body… In your hands… in your heart… in your stomach… …in your skin… Of course you feel it in your Schlauchmachendejungen. Pardon my French. Have you ever felt this way about someone?
- Ted: Yeah, I think so.
- Klaus: If you have to think about it, you have not felt it.
- Ted: And you’re absolutely sure you’ll find that someday?
- Klaus: Of course. Everyone does eventually. You just never know when or where.
- Ted: (narrates) And he was right. Unfortunately, the “when” of it was still a little ways down the road. But the “where” of it?
“Because these imaginary new doughnuts that you offer people? They may never arrive. Okay, they’re not real. And me, personally, I’m not the type of person who wants to sit around, and wait for something that may never arrive, when they know that the thing that is in front of them, it’s tasty, it’s good. It’s not about the age of the doughnut, it’s the flavour. And another thing? The new doughnuts? They’re going to get stale someday too.”
The fourth sewed my mouth shut
so I could only dance inside myself
with heavy shoes.
