22 4 / 2013
"I’m not saying that at some point love isn’t staying up until 2am phone calls or stealing kisses when you least expect it, or instantly falling for each other’s favorite songs because it is, or at least that’s what the lead up to it feels like, but real love, is so much more. It’s going out at 12am to get something to eat for your wife who can’t get out of bed, it’s listening to them as they explode with vulnerability on your living room couch talking about how they were only so young when their parents passed on. it’s remembering how someone likes their coffee in the morning without asking—without ever asking, it’s visiting someone in the hospital knowing the last thing you want to do is see them in that condition, it’s wanting to be with that person despite everything, the future, the past, and everything in between, it’s the intimate things that you don’t even realize involve such intimacy, but they do, in secret, like the pinky promises you two made behind your back, to love one another for always, in the time you thought you were in love, when you were actually just on your way to it."
(via fanaticalforerunner)
20 4 / 2013
Some things need to be ruffled in order to be flawless. They have to be altered to be comfortable. They have to be disheveled to become just right.
Things can’t always be perfect in a perfect way. We learn to love the beauty of disorder.
17 4 / 2013
nobody's business.: unfathomable & beyond understanding
there’s a lot of things i won’t begin to understand. i’ll never understand complex mathematics or how to fix the engine of my car. i’ll never know the right words to say to someone when they’ve lost a loved one or find the words to explain how i really feel to people. i’ll never understand men &…
i have so much to learn from people such as this. come back leslie!
16 4 / 2013
"I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back."
(via abidebeloved)
16 4 / 2013
"It is better to forget about yourself altogether."
(via 12-grimmauld)
15 4 / 2013
"To be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, restore, and liberate, and therefore we can feel the will of God enacted through us, which is the great restoration of ourselves to ourselves."
15 4 / 2013
"Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, they’re proven right. Because, I think there’s something inside of you—and inside of all of us—when we see something and we think, “I think I can do it, I think I can do it. But I’m afraid to.” Bridging that gap, doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that—THAT is what life is. And I think you might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s special. And if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself. Now you know. A mystery is solved. So, I think you should just give it a try. Just inch yourself out of that back line. Step into life. Courage. Risks. Yes. Go. Now."
(via kathleentierney)