Never let the future disturb you.
You will meet it, if you have to,
with the same weapons of reason
which today arm you against the present.
Meditations // Marcus Aurelius
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MIND: Vecchia
Most people don’t grow up. Most people age.
They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards,
get married, have children, and call that maturity.
What that is, is aging.
// Maya Angelou
MIND: Tutor
If I could go back, I’d coach myself. I’d be the woman who taught me how to stand up, how to want things, how to ask for them. I’d be the woman who says, your mind, your imagination, they are everything.
Look how beautiful.
The Chronology of Water: A Memoir // Lidia Yuknavitch
MIND: Rolling
She was like fate–a consummate mistress of all the arts of self preservation: hair rolled & lustrous; eyes so nonchalant; nothing could startle her; people going & coming all the time; she not looking, yet knowing, fearing nothing, expecting nothing.
// Virginia Woolf
MIND: Resist
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
// E.E. Cummings
MIND: Atonement
The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
// Mahatma Gandhi
MIND: Dig
Unexpressed emotions will never die.
They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
// Sigmund Freud
MIND: Burdens
I have to be woman and endure this!
Bride Of Ice // Marina Tsvetaeva
MIND: Resilient
‘How unlucky I am that this should happen to me.’
But not at all.
Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.
// Marcus Aurelius
MIND: Choose Wisely
There are only two types of women — goddesses and doormats.
// Pablo Picasso
