And I want to go so far as to say there is never a reason to be unkind. There may be reasons to disagree. There may be reasons to struggle; after all, two wills are merging into one. There are constant compromises and surrenders, but there is never a reason to be unkind. Ravi Zacharias  […]

Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it (via peachbliss)

Growth is painful. Change is painful.But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong. Mandy Hale  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood. Junot Díaz (via kvtes)

At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered. Cecelia Ahern, Thanks for the Memories (via wordsnquotes)

Be the one who nurtures and builds. Be the one who has an understanding and a forgiving heart one who looks for the best in people. Leave people better than you found them.. Marvin J. Ashton (via naturaekos)

1. The friends you have at the beginning of the year can completely change by the end of it. People change, and if they aren’t improving your life in some way, it’s okay to drop them. 2. Take many pictures. Don’t let it take over your life, though. You don’t want to look back and […]

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy. Thomas Merton  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet recognizes that he may be the object of God’s love precisely because of his shortcomings, can begin to be sincere. His sincerity is based on confidence, not in his own illusions about himself, but in […]

Think of yourself just as a seed patiently waiting on the earth; waiting to come up a flower in the Gardener’s good time, up into the real world, the real waking. C.S. Lewis // Letters to an American Lady  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)