#let

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear? ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#be #let-it-be #mindfulness #moment #change

That was the awakening, really; it dawned on me that this wasn't really very fair on anyone. On her. On me. On Sienna. But I wasn't willing to change anything, either. I was fiercely protective of my friendship with Sienna. I had fought for it, against my true feelings, for years. I had battled so hard to suppress my feelings, and succeeded. I could never let her go. ↗

— Jessica Thompson

#long-term-friendship #change

When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#completed #copiously #force #mobilization #most

But you have to let go of it sometime, Gaby. You can't change the past, any of it, and hanging on just eats your life away. ↗

— Soheir Khashoggi

#change

Sometimes I get depressed about my age. In March I’ll be 26. If man weren’t measured in numbers, but rather letters, I’d be turning Z. And then I’d be dead. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#dead #death #depressed #funny #letters

Staying with detractors is like sleeping in a room located just behind the public toilet. You will never feel comfortable until you relocate. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#change-your-life #comfortable #detractors #dislike #enemies

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#again #am #bare #does #englishmen

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#go #good #good way #heart #letter

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#conversation #each #effort #let us #make

She didn't say anything—at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak. ↗

— J.X. Burros

#eyes #scarlet-spotlight #communication