Gilda (1946)
re-blogging the original
Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.
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| — | Khalil Gibran (The Prophet) |
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’
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| — | Charles M. Shulz (via girlwithoutwings) |
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
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| — | Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind) |
Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.
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| — | Don Miguel Ruiz (via creatingaquietmind) |
People fall in love all the time. And it’s not always with the right people. And it’s not always reciprocated.
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| — | Sarah Addison Allen, The Peach Keeper (via simply-quotes) |
The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.
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| — | Benjamin Hoff, The Tao Of Pooh (via creatingaquietmind) |
