May 2013
4 posts
“therefore as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourself...”
– colossians 3:12-14
you can’t make your heart love someone.
and at the same time,
you can’t stop it from loving someone.
kinda just happens.
April 2013
7 posts
“like the ferris wheel goes around and around
well the trouble with up is...”
– brad paisley
“i shoulda just called him Whiskey.”
– jana kramer.
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March 2013
10 posts
“i have no notion of loving people by halves, it’s not my nature. my...”
– jane austen, pride and prejudice
“if you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. but it’s still worth it.”
– c.s. lewis
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February 2013
14 posts
“smitten.”
“once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous...”
– e.e. cummings
“LETS BE FUN & FANCY FREE.”
“We met at the wrong time. That’s what I keep telling myself anyway. Maybe one...”
– Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
just say what you mean and mean what you say.
so i’ve been doing a lot of thinking, again.
this time i’ve been thinking a lot about thinking and speaking: thinking before speaking and speaking before thinking. as Thumper said:
“if you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.”
i honestly believe that she said that with the best intentions, and my mom ingrained it into my brain with the best...
for better or for worse, i am American.
i wrestle with my own struggles and identity as a white, middle class, Christian woman. i have many failures that hurt my reputation but would rather them not perpetuate the stereotypes of my other important classification as being American. sometimes i am embarrassed to call myself “American.”
i think that the pedestal i am put on has way too much pressure. i stand up there with the...
January 2013
17 posts
“if it is right, it will happen- the important thing is not to rush it because...”
– ~ John Steinbeck, on falling in love, a response to his eldest son’s 1958 letter, from John Steinbeck: A Life in Letters (Viking Adult, 1975)
“If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has...”
– Jeffery R. Holland
