i can totally relate.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too. It’s not love to be static like the desert, nor is it love to roam the world like the wind. And it’s not love to see everything from a distance. […] It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that’s where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
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| — | Paulo Coelho, excerpt from The Alchemist (via forever-insatiable) |
just watched the video last week about the man who took this. So so inspiring. find it here.
i love africa. and these kids.
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagining that he is kissing every cranny of your body. No, don’t blush, I am telling you some truths. That is just being “in love”, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.
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| — | Louis de Bernières (via atomos) |
