When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
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-Ernest Hemingway (via larmoyante)
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-Galileo Galilei (via larmoyante)
Though my soul may set in darkness,
It will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too fondly,
To be fearful of the night.
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-C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (via matrem)
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
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-Morrie Schwartz (via aquaticuss)
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 to 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 your purpose and meaning.
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-Rabindranath Tagore (via theskeletonofme)
The fish in the water is silent, the animals on the earth is noisy, the bird in the air is singing. But man has in him the silence of the sea, the noise of the earth and the music of the air.
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