- God’s mercy is greater than your sin
- Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground. Sierra Demulder
- A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. Leonardo da Vinci
- I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. Vincent van Gogh
- Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Be curious. Stephen Hawking
- When someone tells you, “I love you,” and then you feel, “Oh, I must be worthy after all,” that’s an illusion. That’s not true. Or someone says, “I hate you,” and you think, “Oh, God, I knew it; I’m not very worthy,” that’s not true either. Neither one of these thoughts hold any intrinsic reality. They are an overlay. When someone says, “I love you,” he is telling you about himself, not you. When someone says, “I hate you,” she is telling you about herself, not you. World views are self views—literally. Adyashanti
- Who’s the real you? The person who did something awful, or the one who’s horrified by the awful thing you did? Is one part of you allowed to forgive the other? Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger
- I learned from a very young age that if I persued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness. Brandon Boyd
- A person needs just three things to be truly happy in the world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.
- But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like. Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
- On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard
- If you find yourself constantly trying to prove your worth to someone, you have already forgotten your value.
- Maybe it’s just a moment we had, nothing else. People like us, collect moments. We like to hold them close, we like to feel the passion, re-live the intensity. Good or bad, we enjoy writing about it, not exposing ourselves, but secretly admiring our scars.
- We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day. Brad Meltzer
- You’re a fighter. Look at everything you’ve overcome. Don’t give up now. Olivia Benson
- Don’t make an excuse for your laziness by calling it tawakkul (trust in God) Shaykh Omar Suleiman
- Sometimes our hearts hurt, we can’t explain it or seem to overcome it. It’s okay, we who feel deeply sometimes hurt deeply. We want to be seen, known, cherished, and loved. Sometimes we seek the approval of people who will never notice us, and when they do not see us it wounds us. It may seem silly, but our hearts must grow even in the midst of this silliness. Never feel ashamed for that silly heart that loves without boundaries, often times the most desperate of souls are outside the boarders and need the big hearts to find them. Who knows, maybe your big heart could be the light that guides the lost home. Love your heart that hurts, because it could mean the world to someone who hurts as well. T.B. LaBerge, Go Now
- …thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- She thinks that she doesn’t deserve any kind of love but oh my… every part of her deserves to be worshipped. Maram Rimawi
- Pain is not beautiful, it’s the healing that takes place afterwards which result in something wonderful, though we may not always realize it. T.B. LaBerge, Go Now
- Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along. Harper Lee, Go Set A Watchman
- Poetry doesn’t have to rhyme, it just has to touch someone where your hands couldn’t. Rudy Akbarian
- Life is its own meaning. There’s nothing tangible to find beyond mere existence.
- Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter. African proverb
- I'm a daydreamer and a night thinker.
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