June 2010
10 posts
“Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.”
—Phyllis McGinley (via kari-shma)
“The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.”
—Unknown (via kari-shma)
“Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this is not easy.”
—Aristotle (via kari-shma)
“I ask you about love, you’d probably quote me a sonnet. But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable— known someone that could level you with her eyes. Feeling like God put an angel on Earth just for you. That could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel. To have that love for her, be there for forever. Through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn’t know about sleeping sitting up in a hospital room for two months holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes that the term ‘visiting hours’ don’t apply to you. You don’t know about real loss, because that only occurs when you love something more than you love yourself. I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.”
—Sean Maguire, Good Will Hunting (via filmlovers)
“Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.”
—Mason Cooley (via kari-shma)
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”
—Louis E. Boone (via kari-shma)
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention… A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
—Rachel Naomi Remen (via kari-shma)
“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.”
—Thomas Merton (via kari-shma)
