World Word

"YOU KNOW, TODAY I AM THINKING ABOUT THE WORLD, AND THE WORD; WHILST JUST ONE LETTER APART, THEY COULD NOT BE MORE OPPOSITE IN THEIR MOTIVES AND INTENTIONS. WHERE THE WORLD ENCOURAGES STRIVING, THE WORD ENCOURAGES RESTING. WHERE THE WORLD SAYS WE NEED SMALLER HIPS, THIGHS AND STOMACHS, AND LARGER BREASTS, MUSCLES, AND EGO’S, THE WORD SAYS WE ARE MADE PERFECT IN HIS IMAGE. WHERE THE WORLD SAYS WE MUST PROVE OURSELVES, THE WORD SAYS JESUS HAS DONE EVERYTHING ON THE CROSS. WHERE THE WORLD SAYS LIFE IS HOPELESS, THE WORD SAYS JESUS CAME TO GIVE US LIFE, AND LIFE TO THE FULL, A LIFE OF HOPE, AND A FUTURE. WHERE THE WORLD INSPIRES US TO FOLLOW TRENDS THAT WILL PASS AND FADE AWAY, THE WORD INSPIRES US TO FOLLOW CHRIST; FOR HE IS THE SAME, YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER."
-hope-movement.tumblr.com

Uncomfortable Comfort

"I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don’t want to shrink back just because something isn’t easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can’t and I can. "
— Kristin Armstrong 

Say Yes

"Say yes and you’ll figure it out afterward." — Tina Fey

Practice

 "Between Austria and Italy, there is a section of
  the Alps called the Semmering. It is an impossibly steep, very high
  part of the mountains. They built a train track over these Alps to
  connect Vienna and Venice. They built these tracks even before
  there was a train in existence that could make the trip. They built
  it because they knew some day, the train would come."

-Under the Tuscan Sun

Ladybugs

"Listen,
when I was a little girl,             
I used to spend hours
looking for ladybugs.                 
Finally, I'd just give up
and fall asleep in the grass.                  
When I woke up,
they were crawling all over me."

-Under the Tuscan Sun

Picture

"Photography is a re-creation of nature, with all visible forms appearing in it exactly reproduced."
-August Sander

How I need to look at winter

"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary." — Henry David Thoreau