inspirations week five

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."

-Neil Gaiman 

inspirations week three

inspirations week one (starting over)

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. 

-Jimmy Dean

inspirations week ten

{Source: confetti garden}


After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

 -Aldous Huxley

inspirations week nine

Photo by the lovely Justin Chung

"Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.”

-Snoopy

inspirations week seven

photo by: Shauna James Ahern from Gluten Free Girl and the Chef.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice, heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” - Steve Jobs

inspirations week six

"Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."

-- Roald Dahl

inspirations week five

If we deny love given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain and loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.

inspirations week four

"Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are."
Anne Lamott

inspirations week three

"The things you fail to appreciate are often the things you will soon lose."

-unknown

inspirations week two

As in all warfare, the two essential elements in victory are knowing your enemy and knowing your resources.

-Sinclair Ferguson

inspirations week one

“Vulnerability is the door to transformation and emancipation.

It is a false revival if our pains are not expressed and heard.”

- Walter Breuggemann