Oamenii sunt pasari

Care au aripile crescute in interior...

- Nichita Stanescu

I may pretend i am ignoring you

But inside i long to be with you..

Don't be fooled

By my beauty.
The light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit.

- Rumi

Don't move that way

Don't move the way fear makes you move.

Move the way love makes you move.
Move the way joy makes you move.

- Osho

Bring it back

They say you go back to all those places where pieces of your soul were lost..

Go out there and bring it back home.
Be whole again.

Your heart and my heart

Are very, very old friends.

- Hafiz

We deny our own beauty

Because others can’t or won’t recognise it. Instead of accepting ourselves as we are, we try to imitate what we see around us.
We try to be what other people think of as ‘pretty’ and, little by little, our soul fades, our will weakens, and all the potential we had to make the world a more beautiful place withers away.
We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be.
We stop being the moonlight and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.
Tomorrow, the water will evaporate in the sun.
And all because, one day, someone said: ‘You are ugly.’ Or: ‘She is pretty.’
With those three simple words, they stole away all our self-confidence.
And we become ugly and embittered.

- Manuscript found in Accra (Paulo Coelho)