[makahanaloa]

And when that world slows down, dear. And when those stars burn out, here. Oh she'll be there, yes she'll be there. They call her love. She is love.

She is Love, Parachute 

This song has such a greater meaning now. 

For my daughter, my Maia.

[insane-doctor-deactivated202103]

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.

Thomas More, Utopia (via the-man-in-the-mirror)

[artsnquotes]

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island (via wnq-art)

[makahanaloa]

A society lacks solid foundations when, on the one hand, it asserts values such as the dignity of the person, justice and peace, but then, on the other hand, radically acts to the contrary by allowing or tolerating a variety of ways in which human life is devalued and violated, especially where it is weak or marginalized.

Caritas in Veritate, Encyclical, Bendict XVI

[come-home]

[makahanaloa]

#mood

[libertyninteriors]

[ser-yolomere-of-swagalore]

[breathtakingdestinations]

[makahanaloa]

itching to take an NY trip again.

[daberod]

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?

C.S Lewis (via daberod)

[yourdailydoseofcaffeine]

[makahanaloa]

oh, how I miss you and our mornings together. #preggo

[secretseattle]

[makahanaloa]

And yet the menace of the years,  finds and shall find me unafraid.

William Ernest Henley

[makahanaloa]

“We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.”

C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

[acrylicalchemy]

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

Aristotle 

[makahanaloa]

"Depersonalized experiences are nothing more than a form of self-centeredness. This happens frequently nowadays, as believers seek to hide or keep apart from others, or quietly flit from one place to another or from one task to another, without creating deep and stable bonds. “Imaginatio locorum et mutatio multos fefellit”. This is a false remedy which cripples the heart and at times the body as well. We need to help others to realize that the only way is to learn how to encounter others with the right attitude, which is to accept and esteem them as companions along the way, without interior resistance." —Pope Francis, Evangeli Gaudium, 90-91

[makahanaloa]

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Aristotle

[quotes-shape-us]

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle