Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time.

Paulo Coelho (via lazyyogi)

(via quotefullness)

You are something the whole universe is doing, in the same way that the wave is something that the whole ocean is doing.

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Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Albert Einstein  (via fernsandmoss)

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Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (via astraeia)

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Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

Dalai Lama XIV (via kari-shma)

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Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.

The Lover’s Dictionary, David Levithan  (via commovente)

(Source: maddierose, via quote-book)

He is both the source of my happiness and the one I want to share it with.

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green (via quote-book)

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you’ve got two new people.

John Steinbeck (via kari-shma)

(via quote-book)

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own … how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

William Allen White (via kari-shma)

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