aleeviation

I'm Alison. I enjoy speaking, reading, and writing (traditional) Chinese but I wish I were better at all of them. I enjoy minimalism and things that are black and white. My current interests include Taiwanese entertainment, photography, and Rilakkuma. I’m passive aggressive and indecisive, but I’m trying to change that. I used to know how to express myself, but…nah, I never knew how to express myself.

[wnq-anonymous]

Everyone has experienced something that has changed them in a way that they could never go back to the person they once were.

Anonymous (via wnq-anonymous)

[a-joyfuljourney]

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[tylerknott]

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[mykingforeverjesuschrist-deacti]

Job never saw why he suffered, but he saw God, & that was enough.

Timothy Keller (via cattedrali)

[joyinchrist]

I think we need that one friend who’s an open-and-shut vault, where we can vent and just go nuts. You know, the one friend where we can be our slobbery, screwed up, frustrated, upside-down selves. And they still hang around in the morning because that’s what love does: it says good morning. It sticks around.

J.S. (via jspark3000)

[a-joyfuljourney]

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

Not everyone is healthy enough to have a front row seat in our lives. There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance. It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, incompatible, not-going-anywhere relationships. Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention.

Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

[jspark3000]

I’ve pretty much heard every single argument there is to hear on both sides [of Christianity and atheism], and there is nothing new under the sun. I’ve watched theological debates between all the best. I don’t think I’ve learned any new apologetics in the last three years, and having been an atheist, those guys are not really saying anything new either.Both sides fanwank and retcon their arguments like crazy. Both sides are full of biases, agendas, misinformed views, and wrong ideas about each other. Both sides are eloquent, sharp, articulate, witty. Both sides can present compelling cases. Both sides even get along often. Watch the debate between Wilson and Hitchens, and you can see they’re nearly best friends.It turns out, I like Christians and atheists just about evenly, and if you want to, you can intellectually keep them at checkmate forever. But at the end of the day, Jesus is real enough for me. He wins my heart. He fills me up. He saved my wretched soul. I became tired of explaining myself to people that needed some kind of justified, propped-up, pre-defended faith. I was exhausted of prepackaged arguments that make sense until some other argument arrives. I had tough questions, and still do, but everyday it feels more and more like the answer is becoming Jesus, and each day that’s becoming enough. I don’t care that it makes me an academic cop-out — I care that it makes me whole.

J.S. from What The Church Won’t Talk About (via jspark3000)

[pineapplemountain]

I’m 36 and I am at a really good place in my life right now. And when I was your age, in college, I wasn’t. So don’t you let anyone tell you that college or your 20’s should automatically be the best part of your life, or that growing up and being an adult means everything goes downhill. That’s bullshit. I am so happy right now as a middle-aged person. That’s totally a thing. So don’t worry about growing up.

My chemistry professor today, just out of the blue. I thought it was really apropos for all college-aged individuals. (via pineapplemountain)

[tastefullyoffensive]

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[aleeviation]

I WOULD WEAR THIS. 

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[shyandhilarious]

Find a person who could make you laugh real hard and spend the rest of your life with that person.

[betype]

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[merryweatherblue-deactivated201]

I took my little brother (who falls on the autism spectrum) to see Guardians of the Galaxy and after this scene he lit up like a Christmas tree and screamed “He’s like me! He can’t do metaphors!” And for the rest of the film my brother stared at Drax in a state of rapture. 

So for the last 6 days I have heard my brother repeatedly quote all of the Drax lines from the movie verbatim (one of his talents), begin studying vocabulary test words, and tell everyone he knows that people with autism can also be superheroes.

Now I am not saying that Drax the Destroyer is, or was ever, intended to be autistic. All I am saying is that it warmed my heart to see my brother have an opportunity to identify himself with a character known for his strength, badassness, and honor. And that is pretty damn awesome. 

So while I adored Guardians of the Galaxy as a great fun loving film with cool characters I can do nothing but thank Marvel Studios and Dave Bautista for finally bringing a superhero to the screen that my little brother can relate to.

[jspark3000]

When people say, “I’ve never seen that side of him before” — I want to say, “You have another side too. We all do. You’re just hiding it today.”

It’s ugly to watch someone lash out, blow up, and melt down: but we are all just as capable of the same crimes and cowardice. Please don’t be too hard on others when their worst is exposed, and don’t despise someone whose worst is different than yours. We’re all a little crazy and we all need the same grace.

— J

[jspark3000]

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

C.S. Lewis  (via jspark3000)

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[endlessarch]

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