“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Smile, breathe and go slowly.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

All these quotes about loving people no matter what...those are the most potent to me.

Because Lord knows I try.

I WANT to love everybody.

People just make it so hard.

Because I find it hard to give so much of myself when I get worse than nothing in return.

I have so much bitterness toward those people.

And I don't want it....

It's just really really hard.

I need to stop expecting them to give me reasons to love them.

Most of the time they're not going to, if it's someone I'm struggling with.

So I have to love them for me, and for the sake of loving.

I'm working on it.

Heaven knows I have plenty of opportunity to do so lately.

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” – Carl Gustav Jung

People just make it so hard.

 

 

that's where the problem is.

 

blaming the people for making it hard to love them.

 

i can't do it either. but it's me. and more than that, it's how god made me.

 

and if we instinctively had this ability, or if it was an easy thing to do, to learn, we would have no reason to go through life. through life after life after life. to learn this thing.

 

kabbalah.info.

 

give it a try sometime.

 

it's free.

 

and it's not that madonna nonsense.

 

and they won't sell you red strings or holy water.

 

ptl.

Hmm...that's interesting. I guess I am learning the expectations I have of others, yeah. And...starting to see some of my own behaviors that I should change because I expect them not to exist in others.

“What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” - Helen Keller

Selective hearing

Gotta love it.

“When the mind goes beyond the thought of ‘the me,’ the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” – Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

“Be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu