The Llama Speaks

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

— ― Henri J.M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey (via justbesplendid)

So true.

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

— Josephine Hart (via goldenstories)

So true.

(Source: kari-shma)

“It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”

— ― Marlene Dietrich

“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”

— ― Dr. Seuss

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”

— ― Alison McGhee, All Rivers Flow To The Sea

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

— ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer