You dont know when to stop do you? >.<

....

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao-Tzu

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

 

 

yes, we all do.

 

it's not anyone's job to give us reasons to love them.

 

if it was, there would be no need for god to tell us to love each other.

 

we just would.

 

it starts with us.

 

or it doesn't.

 

the love can't be conditional. or it's not the kind of love god means.

 

love thy neighbor as thyself.

 

not love thy neighbor if he pleases you.

 

if he gives you reasons to.

 

love him if he hates you. love him if he is the scum of the earth.

 

love him if he's a genocidal maniac.

 

hardest thing in the world to do.

 

gonna take a million million lifetimes to learn how.

 

you can try every minute of every day and you may not manage it.

 

i dont think i ever will.

 

most of the time, i dont really even want to try.

“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.” – Lao Tzu

You dont know when to stop do you? >.<

Meh, tried ignoring this, but I can't--what are you talking about?

Selective hearing

 

 

do you really see it in yourself?

Selective hearing

 

 

do you really see it in yourself?

Sometimes, but I wasn't talking about myself. I'm really bad at ignoring anything.

Gotta love it.

 

 

yes. that's it exactly.

 

gotta love it.

 

but can't.

I try, but even when I pretend to ignore things...they still cut me.

Selective hearing

 

 

do you really see it in yourself?

Sometimes, but I wasn't talking about myself. I'm really bad at ignoring anything.

 

 

we all are

“If we could read the secret histories of our enemies we should find sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” – Longfellow

I try, but even when I pretend to ignore things...they still cut me.

 

 

yes, it's like that.

“I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.“ – Golda Meir

“Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.” – Thomas Merton

lol.

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller

“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.” – John Milton

“Never permit me to disgrace my high vocation by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.” – Mother Teresa

“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say but what we are unable to say.” – Anaïs Nin

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom” – Anais Nin

“Don’t let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.” – Anais Nin

“My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.” – Anais Nin

“I want to live my life, not record it.” – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis