Conversations

"Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection."

-Israelmore Ayivor

No's

no
might make them angry.
but
it will make you free.

-if no one has ever told you, your freedom is more important than their anger

-unknown

An Artist

"I feel like I'm an artist. I mean, if how you smile and how you dress even for bed and how you order appetizers and how you arrange your fridge and your sentences and your dreams is all art, then I feel like I'm an artist. We are all artists in some cozy corner booth of our lives.

But I've ruined two large canvasses with my artless attempts at more than a base very very basic base layer, and I'm feeling like I'm anything but an artist…but then I remember how I'm trying not to say anything negative about anybody for three days as a start and I think that should include myself, maybe. So let me tell you this: The top two shelves in my fridge look so darn swoon right now. Like an artist lives here."

-Mackin Ink

Consumerism

"Here's the thing: In the end I believe our life will be characterized by contribution or consumerism, by one or the other, but not both."

-Allie Maria Smith

Unplug

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

-Anne Lamott

They change your cells

"When you interact with someone repeatedly over time, it changes you. That's why what you watch on TV or read or see in a magazine is so critical. So watch what you watch. Be careful with whom or what you are interacting. These recurrent interactions change your cells. They change your soul. They change your countenance."

-Truman G. Madsen

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

"I love myself as I am- for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made.
I am beautiful, right no, jut
the way I am. I am more than
my body, the clothes in my closet,
or the style of my hair, for
I am strong and do hard things.
I am worth loving. I hold myself
to a standard of grace not perfection,
and I refuse to put myself down.
I am a beautiful being, a daughter
of God, and I love myself as I am.

-The Small Seed #choosingtolovemyself movement