To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
// George MacDonald
maturity
MIND: Attentive
I’m not a mess but a deeply feeling person in a messy world. I explain that now, when someone asks me why I cry so often, I say, “For the same reason I laugh so often – because I’m paying attention.” I tell them that we can choose to be perfect and admired or to be real and loved. We must decide.
Love Warrior // Glennon Doyle Melton
SOL: Introduction
I only wish you
could see how much I have changed.
I hope you’d be proud.
3AM Thoughts // AKA “Haiku 129.”
MIND: Dig
Unexpressed emotions will never die.
They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
// Sigmund Freud
MIND: Tolerant
If you try to change it, you will ruin it.
Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Tao Te Ching // Lao Tzu
MIND: Nouveau
Maturity is first the shedding of what you are not, and then the balancing of what you are in relation to the human being you love, and allowing the selves of that person which are not related to you to exist independently, outside of the relationship.
// Anaïs Nin
SOL: Musing Du Jour
The older I get the more I realize how loosely defined the idea of an “adult” is.
