May 2012
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not...”
– Azar Nafisi (via allthingssoulful)
There was no Christmas tree this year, nor carved pumpkins or Easter Eggs. We didn’t eat turkey on thanksgiving, and we didn’t watch the ball drop in New York City. However, I think I can speak for all of SYA SPAIN 2011-2012 when I say that we don’t feel like we missed a thing. A year of discovery abroad ends today, but its effects will echo throughout the rest of our lives. Un...
The Vow
Paige: I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.
Leo: I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love.I vow to love you. And no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other.
Jerry Brito: Top ten myths about introverts →
jerrybrito:
Myth #1 – Introverts don’t like to talk. This is not true. Introverts just don’t talk unless they have something to say. They hate small talk. Get an introvert talking about something they are interested in, and they won’t shut up for days.
Myth #2 – Introverts are shy. Shyness has nothing to…
Some of these are truer for me than other, but something I very much relate to.
“So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace,...”
– 2 Timothy 2:22
“My feelings are not God. God is God. My feelings do not define truth. God’s word...”
– John Piper (via deebella123)
“If a soul has any beauty, it is because Christ has endowed that soul with His...”
– C.H. Spurgeon (via pheven)
“We are hard on each other
and call it honesty,
choosing our jagged truths...”
– Margaret Atwood from “Power Politics” (via wordsforstrangers)
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[...”
– Lemony Snicket (via oatsandsparkle)
Watchryori-doga:
Raspberry brie panini (by Gabor Penoff)
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321...
“She is a deer wrapped in brown velvet. She is the air breathing inside the body...”
– Passion Play (via thosethreedays)
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in...”
– John Wesley
mensch
(noun): a decent, upright, mature, and responsible person; a person of integrity and honor
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via amandaonwriting)
“It is a joy to be with her because everything matters in her life. Nothing is...”
– Rob Bell (via lessandlessasleep)
“Unless you put yourself in a position to serve, you won’t know what He has been...”
– Bill Johnson (via favoredgrace)
(Breathe in LIFE): Firefighters →
thefirefightersgirl:
A firefighter is being yelled at for taking too long to get there, while trying desperately to save the life of a total stranger, holding his bladder because he didn’t have time to pee when the alarm sounded, starving because he missed one of his three meals, tired…
For you, dad.
