It’s something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters. Sue Monk Kidd (via possiblyoverkill) ▲ Monday May 28
Actually, you can be bad at something…but if you love doing it, that will be enough. Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees (via sarah-likestoread) ▲ Monday May 28
▲ Monday May 28
So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they’re busy doing things they think are important. This is because they’re chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. Mitch Albom, Tuesdays With Morrie (via forestofvoices) ▲ Monday May 28
Holding anger is a poison. It eats you from the inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us. But hatred is a curved blade. And the harm we do, we do to ourselves. Forgive, Edward. Forgive. Ruby, The Five People You Meet In Heaven.
by Mitch Albom ▲ Monday May 28
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. Mitch Albom (via quotationalquotes) ▲ Monday May 28
We always neglect the people that want to be there for us, and always long for the people that barely give a shit about us. Always going for the cold hearted, instead of the whole hearted (via amandatiens) ▲ Monday May 28
People need to be self-confident instead of criticizing the past.

lately, there’s been so much complaining over this and that, power struggles, backstabbing, and just otherwise sour grapes and self pity.

I can’t stand that.

If you’ve worked for something, then good for you. If someone else worked harder, then you be professional and acknowledge that they deserve that.

I don’t see the need to rant and rage- particularly to bring up what ifs, could have beens, and should have beens. The reason for that is simple enough: none of them are. None of them are “to be.” None of them are in the here and now. What is the point? If you were truly dedicated and willing to work, you would accept the role you were given and work extremely hard into fulfilling that role given to you. Honestly. And if you decided that playing yourself wasn’t good enough- then you don’t deserve anything. You cannot get by in life on lies and masks. You definitely cannot get by without having some modicum of respect for other people. This is what I am talking about. If you were yourself and you worked hard, you will be delegated what you deserve. If you were someone else, then you wouldn’t be worthy of having received anything at all. There is no point in criticizing the past and bringing up alternatives that will not come to pass.

This is the reality and the mindset needed to look forward.

On a side note, it is also the most professional one.

 ▲ Monday May 28
teachingliteracy: cinderellainrubbershoes: “Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is a proof that humans are capable of magic.” -Carl Sagan

teachingliteracy:

cinderellainrubbershoes:

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is a proof that humans are capable of magic.”

-Carl Sagan

▲ Monday May 28
▲ Monday May 28

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