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1 " I’ll give you fireflies on your birthdaybecause the best gift is to remind someoneof the light that shines within them "
― Valentina Quarta , The Purpose Ladder
2 " When a guru tells me about my infinite creative powerat times I believe itat others, doubts are louder But by observing naturethis truth flows strongestwhen I glance at a seedand see a whole forest "
3 " I want to be like a strawberrythe fruit of all fruitsthat wears its seeds outsidebravely, fiercelyproud to show its essencefirst things first "
4 " When my daughters grow up and look at the trenches time will have dug on my forehead I want them to see the wars other women have fought so the lines of those after them wouldn’t be trenches, but poems "
5 " Negative emotions are messengersdelivering urgent news from faraway landsyou lost contact toDon’t shoot the messengersthey are gardenersbringing tears to waterthe seeds of a new you "
6 " We walk on waters but it’s not a miraclewe skim life’s surface so lightlyour sleepwalking is literal We miss out on sunsetsthough their poetry is lyricalwe are trapped in distractionstheir net often digital Contentment aboundsnot in the minds who ponderbut in the eyes of thosewho look at the worldin a state of perpetual wonder "
7 " Mother nature doesn’t complainabout compost and excrementsit turns them into flowers "
8 " Strength is the ability to talk honestly to yourself. "
9 " You feel like there is so much more to you than you allow anyone to see. There is a sense of untapped potential hosting all the selves you could be.‘But I know so little, and I’m so small,’ you shrug and sigh, ‘I wish I was a bird, but I don’t know how to fly.’ The grand oak tree you’re leaning against interrupts you with a whisper, ‘Little human, you’re forgetting a word, the one you put in the end but serves to begin it all. Instead of complaining about not having this or that, consider harnessing the power of “yet.” ‘You don’t know how to fly yet.‘You don’t know how to love yet.‘You don’t know how to be successful yet.‘The things you can achieve expand indefinitely when you stop making plans based on what you already know and begin relying on what you can learn as you grow. "
10 " I bumped into my shadowon the way to thorny feelingsshe whispered to me:‘You can’t rush your healingIts time is not measured in seconds but stepssome forward, some backwardthen forward again "
11 " Imagine if trees wore concealer cause they don’t like their reflection in the lake If the sun didn’t show up at dawn insecure to rise after scrolling her night awake Imagine if the sky used the Juno filter to make itself look paler and smooth out imperfections If earth went online shopping for clay masksto cleanse its pores and other obstructions Imagine birds attaching engines to their wingsto fly higher and faster, leaving trails in our springs And now think about the child at the bottom of your eyesabout all the other children that you expect to grow wise Do you really want to tell them this is all about their looks?Maybe after some scrolling put their nose into books "
12 " There is no GPS to navigate the path to our truthonly an internal compassYet we are misroutedover golden bridges to shopping malls built to deliver promises of enoughand keep our dreams small Band-aids over amputated limbswe close our eyes and praythat buying instead of beingwill fill the emptiness away "
13 " Keep your heart softa hard heart breaks when it fallsa soft one bounces back in the chestit hurtsbut it doesn’t shatter "
14 " When you take a picture of a sunset and it doesn’t look good you don’t say, ‘Eww the sky is ugly.’ You know it is the camera that can’t capture the beauty of the sunset.Yet when you take a selfie and it doesn’t look good you very quickly say, ‘Eww, I’m ugly,’ when in fact it is the camera that can’t capture your beauty. "
15 " Why work so hard to create something out of nothingwhen so many othershave already done itand a million times betteras they are expertsand me just starting?My attention wandersto the fingerprintmy inky index left on the papera reminder of the unique sparkthat no one else can leavethe exact same mark "
16 " My anxieties are selfish so I must help them seewhat happens when “me” and “I”turn into “us” and “we "
17 " The breeze is nothing but kisses blown to us by the universe to tickle the remembranceof the love for being alive "
18 " You didn’t come here to be alonesolitude is a rose, loneliness its thornyou weren’t alone from the very starthosted in a womb, cherished in a heart You evolved to live in groupsto increase your chance of survivalwhen you have others to count onyour happy hormones are higher You were designed to thrive by touchof both the body and the souland this may come as muchfrom a friend, a tree, a song The deeper you go withinwhere all ice meltsthe deeper you’ll touch everyone else "
19 " Don’t do things by the book unless you’re the author. "
20 " Such a madness to fear fears. Don't you know stars started shining because they were afraid of the dark? "
