It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.

Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via thresca)

a rose by any other name would smell as sweet to me
and i am but a hollow frame if i am without thee
my love is boundless as the sea and just as wild and rough
but we can weather any storm if we are brave enough.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via justbesplendid)

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, “So does God”

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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.

Anaïs Nin (via catfka)

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