we are meant to inspire one another.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying

I know what I want. I know what I value. I know what’s important to me and I know what I’m willing to sacrifice for it and what I’m not willing to sacrifice for it. That in itself is freeing.

Find it for yourself. Embrace it. Own up to it even if others don’t agree (I actually think this helps me to understand people better). You only have this lifetime so live it up to your standards and no one else’s. Just make sure that the choices you make will be the kind that you will choose to make over and over again if you had the chance to repeat. Yes I have my share of regrets but today I choose to let it go and just say “Never again.”

After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul, and you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security. And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises. You begin to accept defeat with the grace of a woman and not the grief of a child. You begin to build all your roads on today, because tomorrow’s grounds are too uncertain for plans and futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight. And after a while, you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much; so you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you roses. You learn that you really can endure and you are strong and you do have worth. And you learn and learn…with every goodbye, you learn.

Two important questions to ask yourself at any given moment of your life: Where are you going? Where are you coming from?

When our love is conditional, it is fear-based. When our love is free of judgements or conditions, it is love-based.

Don’t wish me happiness. I don’t expect to be happy all the time… It’s gotten beyond that somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor. I will need them all.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh (via elicec)

(Source: quote-book)

When everything is lonely, I can be my own best friend. I get a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations.

— Bright Eyes (via wrists)

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Submitted by: posiitron 

So I had attended an in-service at my job about COPD and I was reminded once again how much I actually love listening to lectures (but that’s just the nerd in me talking).

Anyways the respiratory therapist was talking about nocturnal sleep paralysis which got me to thinking and to subsequently not pay attention…it is actually in our sleeping state that we are most vulnerable. Just imagine yourself unconscious and paralyzed. There are so many ways people can take advantage of you: to actually bring you physical harm, to betray you in some ways, to hide something from you or, on a lighter note, prank you. When I come to think of it, I myself have done these things to sleeping “victims.” Let’s just say some good things, some bad, some sneaky ;) [but never the physical harm haha]. And it’s probably worse if you’re the heavy sleeper type.

So the question is: Who would you trust to sleep with you?

We didn’t need a story, we didn’t need a real world. We just had to keep walking and we became the stories. We became the places.

— M83 (via berrynice)

(Source: quote-book)

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