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Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live. // NORA ROBERTS

[gestured]

feelings are like plants, they grow because you tend them. stop tending them and you’ll be all right.

something I taught myself (via gestured)

[quotemadness]

What are you going to do? Everything, is my guess. It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications.

Nora Ephron (via quotemadness)

[fyp-philosophy]

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

Theodore Zeldin (via fyp-philosophy)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Don’t look away. Look straight at everything. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.

Henry Miller, from Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters Of Henry Miller to Brenda Venus (via violentwavesofemotion)

[coffeestainedcashmere]

[witdeficient]

Makel Gardner • https://instagram.com/p/BFSELBuQaqe/

[c0ntemplations]

Get excited about the little things. About wearing a new outfit for the first time. About Sunday brunches with your best friends. About the new cute guy in your class. About finding an extra dollar in your pocket. About anything that even remotely makes you happy because as you grow up, passions fade and enthusiasm gets mistaken for foolishness. So don’t let the grey world stop you from shining.

note to self (via c0ntemplations)

[cassandracalin]

[cassandracalin]

[jennaharney]

Life.

[c0ntemplations]

People seem to think embracing life means to jump off cliffs and kiss strangers. Maybe it’s just slowly learning to love yourself.

(via c0ntemplations)

[fullcravings]

Sour Cream Cake Donuts with Maple Brown Butter Glaze

[vegan-yums]

Pea pesto pasta with sundried tomatoes and arugula / Recipe

[sixpenceee]

Sir Nicholas Winton is a humanitarian who organized a rescue operation that saved the lives of 669 Jewish Czechoslovakia children from Nazi death camps, and brought them to the safety of Great Britain between the years 1938-1939.

After the war, his efforts remained unknown. But in 1988, Winton’s wife Grete found the scrapbook from 1939 with the complete list of children’s names and photos. Sir Nicholas Winton is sitting in an audience of Jewish Czechoslovakian people who he saved 50 years before.

WATCH FULL VIDEO HERE

[sixpenceee]

This post gained more than 100,000 notes in over a day. One of the most powerful things I ever posted. 

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[maorisakai]

[contrariansoul-deactivated20180]

Jesus never talked to a prostitute because he didn’t see a prostitute. He just saw a child of God he was madly in love with. When we have new eyes, we can look into the eyes of those we don’t even like and see the One we love. We can see God’s image in everyone we encounter. As Henri Nouwen puts it, ‘In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own hands. Their flesh is my flesh, their blood is my blood, their pain is my pain, their smile is my smile.’ We are made of the same dust. We cry the same tears. No one is beyond redemption. And we are free to imagine a revolution that sets both the oppressed and the oppressors free.

Shane Claiborne (via contrariansoul)

[pureblyss]

I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?

C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces (via pureblyss)

wow

(via mafoi)