To translate anger into eloquence. 
To translate anger into passion. 
To translate anger into softness. 
To use anger to build instead of to destroy.

Verily the lust for comfort murders the passion of the soul, and then walks grinning in the funeral.

Kahlil Gibran ‘On Houses’

People sell their souls by running away from the battles they know they should be fighting. You cannot pursue comfort and greatness at the same time.

Todd Henry, ‘Die Empty’

If they don’t need you, it’s okay; you do not live for other people.

Every year, unknowingly, we pass the anniversary of our future death.

 When I rise up
let me rise up joyful
like a bird
When I fall
let me fall without regret
like a leaf 

Wendell Berry

 It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done. 

Vincent van Gogh

Do not teach your daughters to be ‘pretty.’

Do not teach your daughters to be ‘pretty.’

Do not entomb her in a pretty pink tower
and insist that only the degree of her physical appeal
may set her free.
Teach her to fight her way out,
to consume books and spit knowledge
to lesser boys who insist she is just beautiful
and nothing more.

Teach her to love her body
not to manipulate and put a price tag on herself
as a defined worth
she shall be immeasurable
she shall be more than this.

Do not let her break herself down
when the boy in kindergarten hits her
because he likes her.
What are you really teaching her?
Pain and love are not synonymous
neither are pretty and perfection.

Teach her to be kind
to be harsh
to be demure
to be wild
to be sensitive
to be thick-skinned

But good god,

Do not teach your daughters to be ‘pretty.’

— Michelle K.

 I don’t mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you’ll feel good no matter what. 

Jiddu Krishnamurti

 “Happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.” ~Chuang Tzu

There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall. 

Joseph Curiale