Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman.

Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. -Doris Mortman.

Red velvet room
rolls me in its mouth
and swallows me to sleep
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Red velvet room
rolls me in its mouth
and swallows me to sleep
**.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture read more

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, read more

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.

...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.

...A being so gentle and so virtuous slander might wound, but could not dishonor.

Sometimes, being strong means not holding back the tears but letting them fall.

Sometimes, being strong means not holding back the tears but letting them fall.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself read more

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard read more

Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes twenty years of hard work to become an overnight success. -Diana Rankin.