Coffee Rings & Sunshine

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Design Sponge

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[thequotejournals]

I want to have experiences. I’m so tired of preparing for life: I want to live it now.

W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

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I fell in love with quotes at a very young age. I guess it was interesting to me that someone else is able to unknowingly express my thoughts when I’m at a loss for words; it has me wasting hours on the simple thought that our minds must have soulmates too.

vigi-la-veris (via wnq-writers)

[birdasaurus]

Serena Mitnik-Miller

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Forest Bound

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Heydavina

[madness-and-gods]

There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

Lord Byron  (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

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[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

I am no fan of how certain segments of Christianity have referred to human beings as “worms.” It has been used as an expression of human sinfulness, depravity, and inherent nastiness. While I do believe that, in the words of the Apostle Paul in Romans, “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,” I do not believe in “total depravity.” All humans are created in the image of God-an image that is marred by sin-but never lost. I find such language dangerous, because it does not provide a basis for the essential human dignity conferred on all created beings, just for existing.

I don’t believe that God looks on sons and daughters, however wayward, with contempt or condescension because he sees them as somehow too morally compromised. And I certainly don’t believe in nonsense like, “God cannot even bear to look at us in our sin, God can only look at Jesus.” The primary function of the story of Jesus of Nazareth is to show us that we in fact have a God who looks us eyeball-to-eyeball. The remarkable proclamation of the gospel, is that God looks at us with the same perfect love and delight with which the Father looks at Jesus. So in this regard, humans are not mere worms or wretches. Love has already dignified us too much for that.

- Jonathan Martin

[coral]

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson  (via mrsclarkkent)

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Deb Caletti, The Secret Life of Prince Charming