The Meaning of Life

"I think the purpose of life is to constantly draw closer, to exhaust ourselves in the incredible journey of exploring every inch of ourselves and this planet, of feeling love and passion and curiosity and joy (things we’ve all felt before) but feeling them on a grand, deep, moving level; to an extent where you think to yourself that you didn’t think it was possible to feel this way, how could we ever go back to a life of mediocrity, of “good enough”; i think, the purpose of life is trying to get as close as possible to our truest, best selves, and oftentimes we’re at our most humble and beautiful and invigorated and compassionate when we’re surrounded by landscapes that feel more like home than the house we grew up in, and in the company of people that feel more like long-lost brothers and sisters and soulmates than the small-talk friends we see day-to-day in our normal, 9-to-5 routine. it’s about going out into the world and experiencing moments and people and places so spectacularly awe-inspiring – moments where you think, this is what it means to be alive – and promising to spend the rest of your life never settling for less than extraordinary.

because once you realize just how miraculous the world can be, with all its people and possibilities and moments just waiting for you to discover, and all the wonder you can feel and grasp and hold and touch if you just are out there, it’s hard to be okay with anything less.
Remake, decide, repave, find a way to your bliss.
I think that is the purpose of life." Found on Tumblr

Reasons Why You Don't Have To Be In a A Relationship

" Can I tell you a secret? You don’t have to be in a relationship.
    I mean it. I know they force it down your throat until you choke on it. Girls aren’t pretty unless they’re wanted. Boys aren’t men unless they’re having sex with someone. People aren’t lovable until they’re dating someone.
    But a relationship won’t always make you happy, and as wonderful as romance is, it isn’t the only love that exists. I have seen friendships that are deeper and more pure than couples who swear it’s forever - and yet the friendship is the one people ignore.
     I have heard so often “nobody loves me” out of the mouths of people who are single. And it kills me because if you ask them: where are your parents, your teachers, your classmates, your pets - they say, yes, okay, but it doesn’t count. Of course it counts, love doesn’t diminish just because someone doesn’t want to have sex with you. In fact, doesn’t it sort of make that love more real that they want nothing - not even a date - out of you?
     It is pretty to be in love. It’s magical, I’m sure. But it’s also wonderful to stop for ice cream in your prom dress with six other girls. It’s also wonderful to go visit the world with nothing but a bunch of buddies who are really excited about learning.
     The problem is: we’ve made everything about “the one”. But maybe “the one” is just you, loving yourself, having fun, and being happy. Maybe instead of looking for our other halves, we should be piecing ourselves together." Found on Tumblr

    "There’s so much more to life than finding someone who will want you, or being sad over someone who doesn’t. There’s a lot of wonderful time to be spent discovering yourself without hoping someone will fall in love with you along the way, and it doesn’t need to be painful or empty. You need to fill yourself up with love. Not anyone else. Become a whole being on your own. Go on adventures, fall asleep in the woods with friends, wander around the city at night, sit in a coffee shop on your own, write on bathroom stalls, leave notes in library books, dress up for yourself, give to others, smile a lot. Do all things with love, but don’t romanticize love like you can’t survive without it. Live for yourself and be happy on your own. It isn’t any less beautiful, I promise.” 
― Emery Allen

     “The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another person--without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other. They allow the other absolute freedom, because they know that if the other leaves, they will be as happy as they are now. Their happiness cannot be taken by the other, because it is not given by the other.” Osho 

Quotes

Quotes

I hope one day
somebody loves you
so much
that they see violets
in the bags under your eyes,
sunsets in the downward arch
of your lips

that they recognize you
as something green,
something fresh and still growing
even if sometimes
you are growing sideways
that they do not waste their time
trying to fix you.”

― Trista Mateer
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do- especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.”

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

  –Henry Miller

"Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling, not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we can step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.”

I am learning everyday to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be, to inspire me and not terrify me.” ― Tracee Ellis Ross
"Don't let the politics and chaos fool you. This world still brims with glory.
There's a beautiful moon in the sky right now. At this moment, your lungs keep inhaling and exhaling with unfathomable complexity and grace. Your heart, and billions of other hearts keep beating. Every country around the world has people in it right now who are singing. Laughing. Dancing. Making love. Kissing their babies goodnight. The strings of our being keep vibrating and that deep mystery of love that is the All underneath it all keeps holding it all together.

Yes, there's a lot to grieve lately. Violence. Terror. Climate change. Racism. But there is also so much love, hope and beauty surrounding us. Goodness that won't get reported on the news, but is present in countless thoughts and interactions. Most of this beauty goes unnoticed by most people. I encourage you take a moment to open your eyes and your heart and notice the glory brimming in the world around and within you now."

Be broken and messy and all of contradictions that you are.

"What you have no one else has so there will be a place for you. Don't think that because someone got something that you're not going to get soething else. There's room for everybody."
"There is always a space for you because there is no one that's exactly like you."
"I never, ever blow out someone else's candle to make mine brighter."
 Chelsea Handler

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.~ Rumi

"I think the purpose of life is to constantly draw closer, to exhaust ourselves in the incredible journey of exploring every inch of ourselves and this planet, of feeling love and passion and curiosity and joy (things we’ve all felt before) but feeling them on a grand, deep, moving level; to an extent where you think to yourself that you didn’t think it was possible to feel this way, how could we ever go back to a life of mediocrity, of “good enough”; i think, the purpose of life is trying to get as close as possible to our truest, best selves, and oftentimes we’re at our most humble and beautiful and invigorated and compassionate when we’re surrounded by landscapes that feel more like home than the house we grew up in, and in the company of people that feel more like long-lost brothers and sisters and soulmates than the small-talk friends we see day-to-day in our normal, 9-to-5 routine. it’s about going out into the world and experiencing moments and people and places so spectacularly awe-inspiring – moments where you think, this is what it means to be alive – and promising to spend the rest of your life never settling for less than extraordinary.

because once you realize just how miraculous the world can be, with all its people and possibilities and moments just waiting for you to discover, and all the wonder you can feel and grasp and hold and touch if you just are out there, it’s hard to be okay with anything less.
remake, decide, repave, find a way to your bliss.
i think that is the purpose of life." Found on Tumblr

 Can I tell you a secret? You don’t have to be in a relationship.

I mean it. I know they force it down your throat until you choke on it. Girls aren’t pretty unless they’re wanted. Boys aren’t men unless they’re having sex with someone. People aren’t lovable until they’re dating someone.

But a relationship won’t always make you happy, and as wonderful as romance is, it isn’t the only love that exists. I have seen friendships that are deeper and more pure than couples who swear it’s forever - and yet the friendship is the one people ignore.

I have heard so often “nobody loves me” out of the mouths of people who are single. And it kills me because if you ask them: where are your parents, your teachers, your classmates, your pets - they say, yes, okay, but it doesn’t count. Of course it counts, love doesn’t diminish just because someone doesn’t want to have sex with you. In fact, doesn’t it sort of make that love more real that they want nothing - not even a date - out of you?

It is pretty to be in love. It’s magical, I’m sure. But it’s also wonderful to stop for ice cream in your prom dress with six other girls. It’s also wonderful to go visit the world with nothing but a bunch of buddies who are really excited about learning.

The problem is: we’ve made everything about “the one”. But maybe “the one” is just you, loving yourself, having fun, and being happy. Maybe instead of looking for our other halves, we should be piecing ourselves together.
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