1. “How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it’s some kind of murder?” (richard siken, from “portrait of fryderyk in shifting light”)
2. “Part of me died so another could go on. The body I raised and abandoned still walking the path on the hill where I became larger than myself and the day could no longer contain me.” (marty mcconnell, from “when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there”)
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(juan arata)
4. “It is never late to ask yourself ‘Am I ready to change my life, am I ready to change myself?’ However old we are, whatever we went through, it is always possible to be reborn. If each day is a copy of the last one, what a pity! Every breath is a change to be reborn. But to be reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.” (shams tabrizi)
5. “People change and forget to tell each other.” (lillian hellman)
6. “I’m always thinking of going back. When Lot’s wife looked over her shoulder, she turned into a pillar of salt. Pillars hold things up, and salt keeps things clean, but it’s a poor exchange for losing yourself. People do go back, but they don’t survive, because two realities are claiming them at the same time.” (jeanette winterson, from “oranges are not the only fruit”)
“The initiative of both parties is the basis for the survival of the relationship”
Seeing it made as a visual like this really drives the point home.
Relationships are about balance, life is about balance, in sooooo many ways the earth has to be in some sort of balance, the universe… it’s all about balance
It’s funny how we were both afraid of the second two gifs happening, but what actually happened ended up being the first one.
I FINALLY FOUND OUT WHY THIS HAPPENS. You see this all the time when there’s a fight or a scrum and suddenly everyone pairs up with a member of the opposite team and they just sort of …hold each other.
Someone on reddit asked about it. And it turns out there’s a logical-ish reason:
all of the other players pair off with their man to prevent anyone else entering into the fight … so it’s a form of self policing.
[…] The players basically want to prevent 2 on 1, etc. fights and by finding a “hugging” partner so there’s no ganging up on one guy, even on accident. They do it because it’s fair. And it’s kind of cute sometimes.
