You start dying slowly if you do not travel, if you do not read, If you do not listen to the sounds of life, If you do not appreciate yourself. You start dying slowly When you kill your self-esteem; When you do not let others help you. You start dying slowly If you become a slave of your habits, Walking everyday on the same paths… If you do not change your routine, If you do not wear different colours Or you do not speak to those you don’t know. You start dying slowly If you avoid to feel passion And their turbulent emotions; Those which make your eyes glisten And your heart beat fast. You start dying slowly If you do not change your life when you are not satisfied with your job, or with your love, If you do not risk what is safe for the uncertain, If you do not go after a dream, If you do not allow yourself, At least once in your lifetime, To run away from sensible advice.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Well, now, if little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you little by little... PABLE NERUDA If you want to do something in your life, share everything but never your ideas. VIKASH SHRIVASTAVA Did I Not Say To You Did I not say to you, “Go not there, for I am your friend; in this... JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Giving Birth by Marcus Amaker do you remember when the earth was just a bab... MARCUS AMAKER Be a little kinder than you have to. Never eat anything bigger than your ass Do not accept... E. LOCKHART I see your pain as clearly as I feel my own. I will share your burden so you feel it... KAMAND KOJOURI If you do not have the strength to forgive, then compel themselves and continue in that, do not... SANEL ALIć I love you so much I want to share you with yourself. I know you do not insist KAMAND KOJOURI 1. Accept everything just the way it is. 2. Do not seek pleasure for its own sake. 3. Do n... 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MARTHA WASHINGTON The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that mak... MARTHA BECK The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another p... MARTHA BECK Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really... MARTHA BECK Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. MARTHA GRAHAM Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's. MARTHA BURGESS When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followe... MARTHA BROOKS There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into acti... MARTHA GRAHAM I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also lear... MARTHA WASHINGTON Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustmen... MARTHA BECK Life is too complicated not to be orderly. MARTHA STEWART