“I just been thinking about that word, you know. Verbatim. Verbatim. Like you are what you say you are verbatim, right? It's a deep-ass word." She nodded, no idea whatsoever what he meant. "And it's not just what you say. What you do verbatim is who you are too, right?” LifeLanguageLivingWordsBeing True To YourselfVerbatimBeing True To Oneself Book:The Wilderness Source: The Wilderness
“I am a person. I am not always happy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week; sometimes I feel sad, sometimes I feel angry. Sometimes I see brokenness in the world and I feel like I'm dying inside because I want to fix it! I am a person. I am not continuously grateful for everything and everyone 100% of the time. Because sometimes, I don't feel grateful! Sometimes I feel betrayed, other times I feel deceived. Because I am a person. And I am tired of the schools of thought and the judgmental eyes that offer up their plates of useless opinion when I am not 100% floating up there in false pretenses of perfection. I do not want to be false. I want to be a person. And I want to feel and I want to think, and no, not everything in life is something to be grateful for; and no, not everything in the world is something to be happy about. I am a person. My face can do a lot of things aside from smiling. My face can look peaceful, it can look thoughtful, it can look Divine. I can frown and sometimes my eyebrows are scrunched up in the middle; that's because I'm thinking! I am a person. A person that is so much more than what popular opinion expects is the definition of perfection. But I AM perfect. I am perfect the very way that I am. And I would never want to be only what popular thought would expect of me. I am so much more than that.” Inspirational QuotesPerfectionIndividualismFeminist QuotesRise UpTake A StandPowerful QuotesBe RealPowerful PersonBeing True To YourselfHumanist QuotesBe TrueBreak The Status QuoBeing True To OneselfDefy The Status Quo Author:C. JoyBell C.