Try to imagine a life without timekeeping.
You probably can’t. You know the month, the year, the day of the week. There is a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
— Mitch Albom
Tag: wise thoughts
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It’s only when you lose someone that you’ll realize how strong you can be.
You’ll learn how to cry so silently you wonder if it qualifies as crying at all. You’ll realize that you can survive on two hours of sleep every night for a week. You’ll stand there, back straight, talking to people, and be pretending that they don’t see how your body is trembling from the weight on your shoulders. We learn to call it strength, and we aspire to attain it. But we forget that strength is thrust upon you; we forget exactly how difficult it is to grasp, and we forget just how easy it is to lose yourself to it.
— Alexandra Hadley -
“If you find parts of yourself missing, do not search for them in somebody else.
I swear you will find them one day; and if not, you will discover pieces you have never seen before.
You are not a simple work of art.
You are the entire museum.”
— galleries by Ming D.Liu -
The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.
No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
― Bob Moawad -
Take away this mask of flesh and bone and see me for my soul alone.
— Jay Asher -
“Two things to remember in life:
Take care of your thoughts
when you are alone,
and take care of your words
when you are with people.”
—Unknown -
“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.
Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
― Stephen Fry
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As you get older,
you really just want to be
surrounded by
good people.
People that are
good for you,
good to you and
good for your soul. -
You know too much psychology
when you can’t get mad
because you understand
everyone’s reasons for
doing everything. -
When people assume you’ll always be there and start treating you carelessly, that’s when you need to cut them off.
