I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they’re your parents. Because, if you’re the kind of person who senses there’s something out there for you beyond whatever it is you’re expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary - you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you’re not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be.

Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You (via larmoyante)

Anonymous sent: hii :) i saw your photographs and i love them! may i ask what camera you use?

Well, thank you. I don’t use anything fancy or special, just a Canon PowerShot SD1300 IS. :)

I have come to this ocean. And the waves of fear are starting to grow. Doubts and questions are rising with the tide. So I am clinging to the one sure thing I know. I will hold on to the hand of my Savior. I will hold on to Jesus for life.

Steven Curtis Chapman

I personally don’t know how anyone could live without Jesus. When I look back to how empty my life used to be, gratefulness encompasses me. I am happy because I have accepted God into my life, and He is doing wonders. 

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can’t always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.

Lauren Kate, Torment (via 99lions)

I have the deepest affection for intellectual conversations. The ability to just sit and talk. About love, about life, about anything, about everything. To sit under the moon with all the time in the world, the full-speed train that is our lives slowing to a crawl. Bound by no obligations, barred by no human limitations. To speak without regret or fear of consequence. To talk for hours and about what’s really important in life.

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This will be my child someday. :)

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There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

Judith McNaught, Remember When (via vanished)

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Shall we be angels for each other?

The two times we’ve looked each other in the eye, I saw pain in your bright blue’s.  And I can tell your emotions from the width of your smile, and the deepness of your dimples. I wish I knew what has been causing you pain. I wish I could relieve it. You have always protected me. Opened doors, and led me to the right places with your gentle hand on my back. That’s why I am pursuing this spontaneous, radical plan; solidified when I woke up from a dream about you. The beginning of it all, I don’t really care. Whether it be heartbreak or disappointment; as long as it ends with happiness. How honored I would feel to be the one who brings you to Christ. To witness firsthand, the unspeakable joy you deserve. 

But right now, how I want more than anything in the world, to hear you speak. I want to know all the wonderful things that have happened in your life, and to hug you for every unfortunate event that dared break your heart. Sometimes I think about how different life would be if I had been brave enough to take a chance. If perhaps, I had been wise enough to see you the way I see you now. You took a chance on a stupid, stupid girl. And this stupid girl is now hoping and praying with everything that she has, that it’s not too late.

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Everybody I meet wants new revelation. They don’t, however, want to be obedient to what they already know. They want what’s next. Hear me: you growing in truth is inseparably connected to you practicing the truth that you know.

Matt Chandler (via breanna-lynn)

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I feel lost at times, we all do. I feel insignificant at times, a tiny pinpoint on the face of a rotating sphere in orbit. And I feel insufficient at times, always struggling to do what I know I should and not hitting the mark. But I know eventually I’ll come around. Eventually, I’ll have a moment where I’m engaged in my life and aware of all my surroundings. And knowing that sometimes things fall perfectly in place without me intentionally trying to make them fit together, that gives me hope and makes me smile from the heart. I find out a lot that contentment isn’t always what it looks like in my imagination, and perfection is subjective.

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Ah, Joyce. You always know what to say, what to write.
I have felt lost and insignificant these past couple weeks. But little reminders of my value and potential will spring up, sporadic enough to continuously sustain me. And the times when I lose interest in tomorrow and lack the passion for life which gives life meaning, something or someone will fuel the fire in my heart. I adore these spontaneous and necessary things, constantly reminding me that God is the author of my story. 

Take these sunken eyes and learn to see.
I struggle with forgiving a certain someone. Whenever I look at them, I see the scars on my heart etched onto their face. I hope one day, I can begin to see them in a new light.
A forgiving light.