Quotes we adore

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.

~Marcel Proust

You are not a mere drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.

~Rumi

Watch and wonder and travel by the road not taken.

~Robert Frost

There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.

~Clare Boothe

The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.

~Emerson

Food for your spirit

The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me

what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.

It doesn’t interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me
who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me
where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know
what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know
if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.

 By Oriah, who can be found here and here.

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~Quotes of love~

Try something different: surrender!

~Rumi

Teach only Love, for that is what you are.

~ACIM

I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoyed the process.

~Oprah Winfrey

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

~Immanuel Kant

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am.

~Laura Schlessinger

Charity : Water

Quite by accident i stumbled upon Charity : Water, a non-profit organization aimed at bringing safe drinking water to the people living in developing nations.

Most of us have never really been thirsty. We’ve never had to leave our houses and walk 5 miles to fetch water. We simply turn on the tap, and water comes out. Clean.

Yet there are a billion people on the planet who don’t have clean water.

It's hard to imagine what a billion people looks like really, but one in eight might be easier. One in eight people in our world don’t have access to the most basic of human needs. Something we can’t imagine going 12 hours without.

Here is the story of Charity: Water, and how it came to birth.

The story of charity: water - The 2009 September Campaign Trailer from charity: water on Vimeo.

Another video that inspired me greatly: how one small thing can lead to another, and soon you find that you have something big in your hands; something that can very well change -- and save -- lives.Through platforms like this, it becomes so easy to help, and to get involved.

Another campaign that you can easily get involved in is CUP: Communities Unite for Purewater, in which each time you click, ten cents is donated to a fund that aims to provide the children of Cambodia clean water. When you click once everyday, you are donating ten cents everyday.

And it doesn't even cost you a thing ;)