One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

—Dale Carnegie (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

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“Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of—something, not to be identified with, but always on the verge of breaking through, the smell of cut wood in the workshop or the clap-clap of water against the boat’s side? Are not…

We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean, because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.

—Jeremy Glass, We Can’t Get Lost Anymore  (via seeduboyou)

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When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

—Abraham Joshua Heschel (via aufwaerts)

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A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he finds her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.

—Stasi Eldredge, Captivating (via yesdarlingido)

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Laughter is the evidence that we’re still here, the proof that our tragedies will not define us forever. Laughter is the language of the survivor.

—Josh Riebock (via yesdarlingido)

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You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.

—Max Lucado (via sorakeem)

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