Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity. James Hillman (via macadameia)

You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated. Maya Angelou (via dear-didi)

You see more flaws in yourself than anyone else ever will. Everyone is too busy focusing on their own flaws to notice any of yours. Lynette Simeone   (via wnq-writers)

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. Leo Buscaglia (via naturaekos)

The reason why it can never succeed is this. God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel that your spirits […]

…but what do we mean when we talk of God helping us? We mean God putting into us a bit of Himself, so to speak. He lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of his love into us and that is how we love […]

I don’t want to run away from my past, I want to run to a better future. 9:12 PM (via mealsforthought)

If the grass looks greener on the other side, stop staring, comparing, and complaining, and start watering the grass you’re standing on. Eugene Cho (via explore-everywhere)

You matter. And there is a void in the symphony of life when you are silent. Jon Foreman, TEDx Talk: “Live It Like a Song”  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

All my life, I thought of love as some kind of voluntary enslavement. Well, that’s a lie: freedom only exists when love is present. The person who gives him or herself wholly, the person who feels most free, is the person who loves most wholeheartedly. And the person who loves wholeheartedly feels free. Paulo Coelho […]