“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)”
― Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
― Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
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“Gratitude, peace, and joy are ways that God communicates with us. During these times, we are feeling a real connection with God, though we might not initially identify it as such. The key insight is accepting that these are ways that God is communicating with us. That is, the first step involves a bit of trust.”
― The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
― The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
“Religion can provide a check to my tendency to think that I am the center of the universe, that I know better than anyone about God, and that God speaks most clearly through me.”
― The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
― The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life
“Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.”
― Kill Me Softly
― Kill Me Softly
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