“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.
A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life”
– elizabeth gilbert - eat, pray, loveLife loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I am with you kid. Let’s go.
–Maya Angelou
——-&I know this is true of my life now too
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
– Jack Kerouac (via holy-honey) (via heartmindspirit)Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.
– Mary Manin Morrissey (via kari-shma) Via twentythree :One less bell to answer
One less egg to fry
One less man to pick up after
I should be happy
But all i do is cry
(cry, cry, no more laughter) i should be happy
(oh, why did he go)
Since he left my life’s so empty
Though i try to forget it just can’t be done
Each time the doorbell rings i still run
I don’t know how in the world
To stop thinking of him
‘cause i still love him so
I spend each day the way i start out
Crying my heart out
One less man to pick up after
No more laughter, no more love
Since he went away (he went away)
(one less bell to answer) why did he leave me
(why, why, why did he leave)
(one less bell to answer) now i’ve got one less egg to fry
One less egg to fry
(why, why, why did he leave) and all i do is cry
(one less bell to answer) because a man told me goodbye
(why, why, why did he leave)
(one less bell to answer) somebody tell me please
Where did he go, why did he go
(why, why, why did he leave) how could he leave me
…it is possible to live in this world soberly, honestly, unfanatically, unpietistically, seriously, and at the same time, joyfully.
– G. K. Chesterton (via longshots) Via Long Shots @ tumblr
