“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
we sat in the car
& the night dropped
down until the
only sounds were
the crickets &
the dance of our voices
& for a moment
the world became
small enough to
roll back & forth
between us. -brian andreas
i’m not sure if there is one right place i’m supposed to be, he said, but i know a couple of wrong places i’d give a second try in a heartbeat. -brian andreas
life plan:
i asked her what she planned to do with her life & she said she was way beyond that point already. i’m just happy i remember to be there when it happens, she said. -brian andreas
…and when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for awhile, because girl you’re amazing, just the way you are…
don’t do what you want.
do what you don’t want.
do what you are trained not to do.
do the things that scare you the most.
-chuck palahniuk
more fair:
they left me
with your shadow,
saying things like
life is not fair.
& i believed them
for a long time.
but today,
i remembered
the way you laughed.
& the heat
of your hand
in mine.
& i knew that
life is more fair
than we can
ever imagine
if
we are there to live it.
-brian andreas
everything changed the day he figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in his life. -brian andreas.
everyone says love hurts, but that isn’t true. loneliness hurts. rejection hurts. losing someone hurts. envy hurts. everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.
i lost a friend once. yesterday i found her again over coffee.
we sat side by side i the morning light & looked out at the future. together. -brian andreas
she turned to me & whispered, don’t you just love it when you get so excited you forget to breathe? & the thought of her smiling eyes still makes me laugh -brian andreas
live in such a way that there will be no regrets when someone else follows in your footsteps.
life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. it’s about learning how to dance in the rain. -greene
we must let go of the life we have planned so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. -joseph campbell
somewhere along the line, things just began to change and fall apart into pieces. i don’t know how or why, all i know is that it did. i hate it more than anything, but it’s life and i’ve got to learn to accept that.
everyone edits themselves here. and it makes me wonder whether you’re ever actually connected to real people or just the people they wish they were.
most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. should i? should i not? go forward? go back? success requires the emotional balance of a committed heart. when confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. the undecided heart searches for an escape. a committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. why? because conditions are never exactly right. -andy andrews.
i just want you…that’s it. all your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles jokes, sarcasm. everything. i just want you.
have hope. be strong. laugh loud. play hard. smile often. dream big. remember. you are loved.
everything will be okay. it might be stormy now, but it can’t rain forever.
i lied when i told you i forgot. i know it doesn’t seem like a big thing. but i wanted to tell you the truth. and never ever lie to you. because that’s how it starts.
i could have sworn i was telling the truth when i told you i didn’t miss you.
you will never meet anyone who has done something great who waited for permission to do something great.
it may have just been a moment for you, but it changed every single one that followed for me.
i’ve changed and i’m sure you have too, but i hope we’ve changed so we fit together even better than before.
to let go of someone doesn’t mean you have to stop loving, it only means that you allow that person to find their own happiness without expecting them to come back. letting go is not just setting the other person free but is also setting yourself free from all the bitterness, hatred and anger tat you keep in your heart. do not let the bitterness take away your strength and weaken your faith, and never allow pain to dishearten you; but rather let yourself grow with wisdom in bearing it.
it doesn’t matter what people tell you. it doesn’t matter what they might say. sometimes you have to leave home. sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction.
