"Leaving love behind is never easy, for it also asks that we leave behind the part of ourselves that did the loving. And yet for all but the very fortunate and the very foolish, this difficult transition is an inevitable part of the human experience, of the ceaseless learning journey that is life - because, after all, anything worth pursuing is worth failing at, and fail we do as we pursue."

Source : "When Leaving Becomes Arriving: Poet and Philosopher David Whyte on Ending Relationships". www.brainpickings.org. April 6, 2015.

Maria Popova

#Journey Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best”

Source : O. Henry (1953). “The complete works of O. Henry [pseud.]”
“What is working stain, does not soil.”
“Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.”

Source : Hugh Prather (2001). “Love and Courage”, p.68, Conari Press
“The mountains have rules. they are harsh rules, but they are there, and if you keep to them you are safe. A mountain is not like men. A mountain is sincere. The weapons to conquer it exist inside you, inside your soul.”
“It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy . . . great improvement . . . were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients.”
“When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.”
“There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.”

Source : "Ki Sayings". Book by Koichi Tohei, Chapter 10: "The Principle of Non-Dissension", ki-moscow.narod.ru. 2003.
“Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.”

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