February 2012
“If loving other people is a bit of heaven then certainly isolation is a bit of...”
– Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
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“No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea...”
– C. S. Lewis.
jumping-jujubeans:
6 Months - Hey Monday
“I look up at the sky, wondering if I’ll catch a glimpse of kindness there, but I...”
– Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (via 35bit)
“The single desire that dominated my search for delight was simply to love and be...”
– Augustine in Augustine’s Confessions (via esta-loco)
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I’m starting to realize the need for pauses and breaks from the rigmarole of your daily schedules. I can’t believe how absorbed I’ve been with my two photography classes at college. They’ve sucked me dry of life and light, considering I’m in a darkroom developing black and white photo prints. I’ve also realized that I have been given so much, and I’ve...
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Sex shouldn’t define who you are. Your personality traits, merits, and character should do that. Seriously, anything other than sex.
“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire. Live by love though the stars walk...”
– E.E. Cummings (via illneverturnaway)
liveandlovethequestions:
“The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.”
— C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
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“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the...”
– Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.
bookofprayer:
“Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate.”
— C. S. Lewis, “The Efficacy of Prayer,” The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays
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Next week I’ll be sleeping in my own bed. Eating real food. Being with people who I love and miss. My mind is already there.
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bookofwriting:
“The great artist—or at all events the great literary artist—cannot be a man shallow either in his thoughts or his feelings. However improbable and abnormal a story he has chosen, it will, as we say, ‘come to life’ in his hands. The life to which it comes will be impregnated with all the wisdom, knowledge and experience the author has; and even more by something which I can only...
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