“We fear we’ll be misunderstood—and, at times, we surely will be. The most powerful human emotions are terribly difficult to explain in a way that doesn’t diminish them, or that doesn’t make you look slightly ridiculous in the telling. How easy to safeguard them then, and keep things close, rather than risk looking foolish or being misheard.” - Khaled Hosseini
Maybe it’s time to start writing again.
—Augustine (via onfireforgod)
(via goodwomenproject)
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via manchannel)
(via goodwomenproject)
(Source: praises, via goodwomenproject)
Connection: “the energy that is created between people when they feel seen, heard and valued. when they can give and receive without judgment.”
- Brene Brown
Do I matter? And does what I say mean anything to you?
So good. This is what I’m looking for. This is what you’re looking for. God knows this, He made us this way and I absolutely believe He will give this to us as long as we keep seeking.
Sometimes I just get really discouraged. That’s all.
—Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest (via godmoves)
(Source: lizjantzen, via shannonicole)
“Boston. Fucking horrible.
I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, ‘Well, I’ve had it with humanity.’
But I was wrong. I don’t know what’s going to be revealed to be behind all of this mayhem. One human insect or a poisonous mass of broken sociopaths.
But here’s what I DO know. If it’s one person or a HUNDRED people, that number is not even a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the population on this planet. You watch the videos of the carnage and there are people running TOWARDS the destruction to help out. (Thanks FAKE Gallery founder and owner Paul Kozlowski for pointing this out to me). This is a giant planet and we’re lucky to live on it but there are prices and penalties incurred for the daily miracle of existence. One of them is, every once in awhile, the wiring of a tiny sliver of the species gets snarled and they’re pointed towards darkness.
But the vast majority stands against that darkness and, like white blood cells attacking a virus, they dilute and weaken and eventually wash away the evil doers and, more importantly, the damage they wreak. This is beyond religion or creed or nation. We would not be here if humanity were inherently evil. We’d have eaten ourselves alive long ago.
So when you spot violence, or bigotry, or intolerance or fear or just garden-variety misogyny, hatred or ignorance, just look it in the eye and think, ‘The good outnumber you, and we always will.’”
—Patton Oswalt
