“Meetings create worldly connections, while separations can be heart-wrenching. Yet a broken heart will eventually find healing through a new bond. Like medicine healing a wound, the right person will be discovered. Such love is strong as tree roots. Patience is key in waiting for the right person.”
“Det finns en märklig paradox i en spirande kärlekshistoria. Man blir ängslig. Rädd för att tala om för den andra parten att man inte kan låta bli att tänka på henne eller honom hela tiden. Man vill ge allt, men man snålar, hushållar med lyckan som om den gick att spara, lägga på hög.
Kärlekens begynnelse är lika idiotisk som bräcklig.”
“It’s easy to say you’re over someone when you’re with someone new”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“We're not a couple. A couple of idiots, maybe.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“Your mind, body, and spirit are one in relationship, just like the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Your mind, body, and spirit work in relation to one another. If one part is unfit, they all struggle. It's a fact.”
Source: Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God
“Grants footsteps are the same as they always were, they are soft and slow but also confident, like him, he knows I'll follow.”
Source: If You Change Your Mind
“In order to “protect” ourselves by keeping our lives small and shutting out intimacies, we could actually be hurting ourselves, missing out on a transformative experience of the heart, and sabotaging our small but crucial contribution to making peace.”
Source: Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair
“But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long, close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self: the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
Source: Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Love is not about finding someone,
Love is about finding yourself in someone.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“As sscary as this is for you," Mom says evenly, "there's only one wrong move here."
I tongue my cracked tooth. "What's that?"
"Doing nothing.”
Source: 10 Signs You Need to Grovel