Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, anger, jealousy, and fear, Instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach us where it is that we are holding back…
…Usually, we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.
Cry a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
Koh Samet, Thailand
The truth behind glass mountains..
This isn’t torture.
Torture happens in small, dark rooms in countries with names you struggle to spell.
This is just mildly unpleasant.
This isn’t heroism.
Heroism happens in churches that are also schools, performed by teachers with no names and no place to stay.
This is just a good deed for the day.
This isn’t loss.
Loss happens on fields filled with poppies, in hospitals buzzing with flies, in distant deserts and late at night when there’s no good reason for the phone to ring.
This is just longing.
This isn’t important.
Important happens on bended knees and is breathed on last breaths with hands clutched tight, hearts tighter.
This is just a distraction.
(via I wrote this for you)
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Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
At my college graduation everyone is allowed to take a loved one with them as they walk across the stage. The last girl to walk across held the arm of her 90 year old grandpa. As they crossed the stage the chancelor read her grandfathers name. He graduated 60 years ago but didn’t get to walk his own graduation because he was fighting in WWII. GMH.
Missing my grandfater, but I’m sure he’s enjoying his time in heaven :’)
It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.
