December 2012
1 post
She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she...
– Gyula Krudy (via serendipitousromance)
June 2012
2 posts
When she is starved, a woman will take any substitutes offered, including those...
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes, via Le Destin Fabuleux d’une Fille: Fairy Tales…
We [U2] have to write songs that raise the temperature of the room and find...
– Bono
May 2012
1 post
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred...
– Mary Oliver (from Wild Geese)
April 2012
15 posts
For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via seetheworldbeforetheworldends)
Remember who you are, and why I’ve called you.
Remember that My love is...
– Jennifer Camp
But He gives us more and more grace ([a]power of the Holy Spirit, to meet this...
– James 4: 6-10 AMP - But He gives us more and more grace - Bible Gateway
Anxiety often stems from a preoccupation with the temporal and material.
...
– Paul Tautages, via Seven lessons on anxiety « Strengthened by Grace
I was born with a loaf of brave under my arm that sustains me still.
– Shelly Miller
The choices are never easy.
We can nurse wounds of having been cheated in...
– Gerald Sittser
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It...
– Zora Neale Hurston
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness...
– C.S. Lewis
Daily decisions are holy moments. When we make them, Heaven stands to attention.
– Wanda Winter-Gutierrez
March 2012
30 posts
Sometimes the happiest ending isn’t the one you keep longing for, but something...
– Shauna Niequist (via internal-acceptance-movement)
…choose to believe in
your own myth
your own glamour
your own spell
a...
– Francesca Lia Block, How to (Un)cage a Girl
Now I Become Myself
Now I become myself. It’s taken
Time, many years and...
– May Sarton
(Jesus) isn’t afraid of weakness.
He is drawn with tenderness to me and loves...
– { Unwrapping Love } What Attracts You To Jesus? | Faith Barista
“As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my...
– Gospel sociology – Ray Ortlund
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement;...
– Winston Churchill
However, though you may try to cover up your perceived flaws, make yourself...
– Dressing Like You LIKE Your Body | The Karina Chronicles
Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too...
– Zooey Deschanel
You’re blessed if someone genuinely loves you, not if you wear cool clothes and...
– What I need to hear (encouragement) « Laura Droege’s blog
Most of the time, I feel more safe hidden behind my wall than I do with you....
– simply[his]: Not Good Enough
God uses all kinds of people and He specializes in the ordinary.
“God’s...
– When Inadequate is Adequate
I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
– Mark Twain
Learn to love the mess that you are!
ablessedmess:
Learn to love the mess that you are.
Whether you’re a prima ballerina or a tattooed niña
Love every moment
the boring moments the overly excited moments the way too overly excited moments the fat moments the thin moments the amazing moments the road rage moments the ugly moments the really ugly moments the beautiful moments the not so bright moments the too smart...
People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as...
– Margaret Thatcher
The TAP Method
The next time you find your mind wandering from the present...
– using the TAP method to stay present - positively present
Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing &, like everything that...
– Vivienne Westwood
I believe in the intrinsic value of all life. Even yours? Even mine.
– Feeling fat. | The Fat Nutritionist
God’s promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine.
– David Nicholas
Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your Soul.
– GK Chesterton
You were not born to be average, normal or typical.
You were not born a carbon...
– Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker
People feel tired, ugly, stupid, and unwanted, and they want to hear something...
– The Bull’s-Eye of the Gospel | The Resurgence
Beauty isn’t a special inserted sort of thing. It is just life, pure life, life...
– HG Wells
God’s Love Notes (GLN)
When your days feel weary with words that overwhelm...
– One Word Is All It Takes {God’s Love Notes}
Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be...
– CS Lewis
… within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child...
– Dr. R. Joseph, Neuroscientist
In the past year, I began understanding the accuracy of those incriminating...
– What This Girl Learns: The Person I Trusted Least
…we should remember that happiness is a great benefit to us and a means of...
– Are you happy? « Femina
I DECLARE that God is bringing about good seasons of change. I know that He is...
– In The Name Of Love » Blog Archive » well i declare…
Each human being is at the same time both riddled with divine sparks and in...
– -Lawrence Kushner
February 2012
15 posts
Psst…
I have something encouraging to share with you.
When you are pregnant...
– Pregnant With a Promise: Why You Can’t Turn Back | Faith Barista