I'm feeling really lost right now. But I have come to accept that it is alright to be lost once in a while. It's life's way of nudging you softly to remind you to take a breather and reexamine whether you're heading in the right direction.

When you're feeling lost, it's best not to seek for answers although it is extremely tempting to do so. Just embrace the feeling of being lost, of being absolutely terrified and love yourself for what you are right now - a beautiful wondrous mess.

You don't have to do anything. Well you can do something like meditate, eat (but don't overeat) and just bathe in the sunlight. Let the gentle waves of life carry you to the path that you seek. Everything is okay. =)

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.

Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.

And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

-
Rainer Marie Rilke

You are joy, looking for a way to express. It’s not just that your purpose is joy, it is that you are joy. You are love and joy and freedom and clarity expressing. Energy — frolicking and eager — that’s who you are. And so, if you’re always reaching for alignment with that, you’re always on your path, and your path will take you into all kinds of places. We will not deny that you will not discover miracles and create benefits and be involved in creation, and that you will not uplift humanity…we will not say that you will not find satisfaction in so many things that you create, but we can’t get away from the acknowledgment that you are Pure Positive Energy that translates into the human emotion of joy.

—
Abraham/Esther Hicks

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.

—
Louise Erdrich
from The Painted Drum


到底要用多少愛與慈悲，才可以感動一個人？還要退後多少步，對方才會明白我跟他或他熟悉的那些人不一樣？又要有多少忍讓，對方才會知道我不是他想的那麼笨，我只是不喜歡計較？要微笑到什麼時候，他才會發現我的沉默不是軟弱？我的寬容只是因為我珍惜這一場相遇？

我不會耍手段，因為我打心底裡瞧不起耍手段這回事；當然，真要耍起來，我也不行。我不喜歡勾心鬥角、不喜歡算計，因為我壓根兒覺得這樣的人生很累；當然，我也沒有算計和勾心鬥角的天份。可是，想用愛與慈悲去感化一個人，是不是終究太自大了？慈悲是好東西，慈悲到近乎軟弱，那並不是好東西。

要是一個人能夠用他忙於算計、諂媚、嫉妒和破壞別人的時間來做點正事，他的人生肯定比現在有成就和意義。可他們為什麼沒有這樣想？當他失意的時候，假如他能夠檢討自己，而不是遷怒於別人，他是不是可以更快爬起來？要是他懂得擦亮眼睛，看得清真情和假意，他是不是會比現在過得好？
要是對方浪擲我的愛與慈悲，我也只能沉默，當做修煉。這樣想的時候，我才不會覺得感傷，我的信念才不會動搖。到了最後，所有不珍惜的人，都會成為過去。

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I will greet this day with love in my heart.
And how will I do this?
Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again.

I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul.

I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.
.

-
Og Mandino

我爱你，所以才舍得

I still remember this one time you've asked me: "What will you do if I suddenly disappear?"

I replied: "My life will go on but I will be waiting for you."

You asked me: "Why?"

....Why?

Cause I know you will definitely come back. =)

I guess now, this is the time.

你問：「有一種愛叫放手，你是怎麼理解這句話的呢？」

我愛你愛到捨得放手，但我的懷抱永遠為你打開。

這很偉大嗎？這太難了嗎？要看你怎麼理解這句話。

我愛你愛到捨得放手給你自由，但是，當你需要我的時候，我會在你身邊。也許，那時候你愛的是另一個人，我身邊也有另一個人了，然而，我還是會幫你，這是我對你的愛。這份愛曾經自私，卻已經修煉到不自私的地步。我們相愛過，那是多麼不容易？那是幾生幾世修來的緣份？我們是彼此可以信任和倚靠的舊情人。

我愛你愛到捨得放手讓去追逐你的夢想，然而，當你累了，當你受到挫敗，我永遠在你身邊。我等你。

我愛你愛到捨得放手讓你去做你自己喜歡的事，我永遠支持你，我也知道聰慧如你會做得很出色。然而，當你想放棄、當你倦了，你隨時可以回來。愛一個人，不是把他困在一個小天地了，怕他成功了會飛走，而是想看到他成功，想看到他變好。

這是偉大嗎？愛一個人，不當如此嗎？只是，人都是自私的、沒安全感的，好害怕放手了就會失去。我們總以為愛就是兩個人朝朝暮暮在一起，誰也離不開誰。這樣的愛終究要在欲望裡流轉，終究會有得失之心。當你漸漸老了，當你懂了，當你擁有更多的智慧，你會明白，愛一個人愛到捨得放手，卻永遠為他打開懷抱，並不是什麼偉大，這就是愛。只是，我們不一定能做到，不一定捨得。


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Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

- Charles "Tremendous" Jones

Someone asked the Dalai Lama what surprises him most.

This was his response.

"Man, because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really live."

1922 children's classic,The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real, you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out, and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

I love the drawing style.

Confident without being cocky.
Confident without being stubborn.
Confident without alienating others.
Confident even in the face of uncertainties.
Confident by accepting your flaws and imperfections.
Hoo boy, this is one virtue that will take time.


When people tell me I'm weird or abnormal,
I would smile at them and say:"
Thank you. That is one lovely compliment."


I wanna take a measuring stick and measure every inch of your body. <3


I can't wait to go home! =D


Happiness is now.


To infinity and beyond!


I am a strong woman.

The unreal is more powerful than the real.
Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
Because its only tangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last.
Stone crumbles.
Wood rots.
People, well, they die.
But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
If you can change the way people think.
The way they see themselves.
The way they see the world.
You can change the way people live their lives.
That's the only lasting thing you can create.
- Chuck Palahniuk from Choke

99% of the time we already have the answer deep inside of us.
Just that we don't have the courage to face it or follow it through with action.


I need this in my keyboard since I really use the love symbol a lot!
Someone please make it happen. :P


To me, a really successful person is someone who can inspire other people to become the best of themselves, who can unite everyone to change the world for the better, who is not afraid to be him or herself and who can  stand up stronger than ever before after each heartbreaking failure.


Give me all your fears, insecurities and hurts.
Tell me your secrets.


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And I'll keep on loving you because...
There is a dream dreaming us. - Aboriginal San Proverb


Love, music and peace. <3

Promises are for the insecures. - Lisa the Little Star

Thank you to A for making me realize that my dark side is very nice and that life is good no matter what. =D
Everything is ok.

I really love ya

Oh you know that I do

I love you

That's how you feel

And I cant do nothing at all won't stop you

CHORUS

You have to know that

I'll be your right

Whether you love me you're not

I'll be alright

A thousand knives

Oh they cut my heart, my heart

But I won't never show you the scar you give me

Deep down I want you to stay

I guess I have to let go

And say

CHORUS

You have to know that

I'll be your right

Whether you love me you're not

I'll be alright

Fall turn this brave

I spread my wings and be alright

Is that where we stand

Lovers to friends

I'll be alright

CHORUS

You have to know that

I'll be your right

Whether you love me you're not

I'll be alright

This picture reminds me of a conversation I had with H and K.

I told them exactly the same thing when they asked me whether I want to be with L.

They laughed and said:"我们没有到这么高的境界."

The part of me that wants to be with L is love talking.

The part of me that doesn't want to be with L is fear talking.

In the last two weeks, fear's voice was louder that love's voice.

But I'm slowly working myself back to love's grace and I'm happy to say I'm making steady progress. <3

I am grateful and thankful. =)

I am also grateful and thankful for all the wonderful people who act as my guidance during trying times.

Looks like my kitty who ran away again. 

Cute and innocent.

I believe you will find your way back to us again, nuomi.

Only I can live this life for I am unique. 

Thankful for the chance to be born as me.

I have always been told that my smile is special, lovely and can light up the world.

Maybe it's time to start believing?

Be kind to yourself.

Know that you are enough.

Only then you can extend the kindness to those around you.

My love for cat is endless. <3 <3 <3

Haha, yes I can definitely relate to this!

Great ideas are just that - great ideas, unless actions follow.

I heart brainstorming!

Everybody came into your life for a reason and that reason is to make you become the best "you".
Thank them for all the joy, sadness and pain.
Forgive yourself and forgive them.


This is why I love literature.


Thank you for everything, my love. =)


Too cute to eat.

You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen
Perfection is being beautifully imperfect. - Kind Over Matter
The day I stopped chasing perfection was the day I started living.