“you don’t have a soul. you are a soul. you have a body.” -c.s. lewis

“let your heart be heavy sometimes, because carrying its weight will make your soul stronger.”

“mostly we have just enough light to see the next step: what we have to do in the coming hour or the following day. the art of living is to enjoy what we can see and not complain about what remains in the dark.” -henri nouwen

“brick walls are there for a reason. they give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” -randy pausch

“don’t be sad she said, gently but firmly enough not to go ignored. the people who really matter, you’ll see them again.”

“don’t you hear it? she asked.
& i shook my head no
& then she started to dance
& suddenly there was music everywhere
& it went on for a very long time
& when i finally found words
all i could say was thank you.” -brian andreas

“i’m sick and tired of being on my own. most of the time i’m fine. some of the time i even quite enjoy it. but at this precise moment in time, i’m fed up with it. i’ve had enough.”

“if people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, i bet they’d live a lot differently.” -calvin and hobbes

“somebody should tell us right at the start of our lives that we’re dying. then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. do it, i say. whatever you want to do, do it now. there are only so many tomorrows.”

“yesterday he said my eyes
were fading fast away
i said well what do you expect
you asked me not to stay” apologies -grace potter and the nocturnals

“because i’m trying to understand why i am here at all with so many guesses and too many simple answers could it be that life is not what i think at all it’s not the big things but the ordinary in between and maybe this is not the time to be waiting for any better reason to be glad that I’m alive at all so help me take each day each simple thing that i must do to bring glory to you” nothing great – late tuesday

people spend so much time, every single day runnin’ round all over town, givin’ their forever away, but no not me, i won’t let my forever roam, and now i hope i can find my forever a home, so give me your forever, please your forever, not a day less will do from you. -ben harper