* tHe UnIqUeNeSs StArTs HeRe*

Expression through creativeness

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[frachella]

[hecallsmelovely]

[missuniquee]

What Christmas is all about!

[yesdarlingido]

“When your parter confides in you about a problem they’ve faced, and your first response is to try to fix it, what this says to your partner is not that you care enough to help, but that you don’t believe they’re capable of figuring out a solution by themselves. This is one of the most common ways to miss your partner because you bypassed empathy when that’s the only thing they were looking for. When your partner confides in you, resist problem solving. If they want solutions, they’ll ask for your input, but what they most likely want is connection, which looks like asking questions, empathizing, and never siding with the enemy. All they want is to be heard, to know they’re not alone, and to feel that you’re on their side.”

— L, thoughts of a therapist (based on the work of Julie Gottman)

[wordsnquotes]

“One of my main regrets in life is giving considerable thought to inconsiderate people.”

— Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

[u-zagrljaju-nade]

bl. Alojzije Stepinac 

[ashevillelove-deactivated202004]

[myheartbelongstochrist]

It’s a microwave culture, but everyone with taste buds can agree, a slow roasted meal in the oven is better than a meal microwaved in seconds. Convenience is costly. You can have it sooner, but it won’t always be better.

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There is an old adage that says, “good things come to those who wait.” I‘d make a slight modification. Good things come to those who wait ACTIVELY. Waiting on God is not an excuse to be lazy in our pursuit of God. If our pursuit of God is contingent upon receiving what we want from Him, then we don’t love God. We love our desires more than we love God. If that is how our relationship with God is, then seasons of waiting will quickly turn into seasons of whining. The bedrock of love is trust, and you can trust this - that because God loves you, He will make you wait. In seasons of waiting, there is a lot that God wants you to run towards.

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If you want to see crops grow, you don’t throw a seed on the soil and just hope it grows, getting angry when nothing happens. But that is often how we wait. You have to till the field, dig up the earth, plant the seed in enough depth, water it, tend to it, and protect it. God will bring the crop, but we have to do the work. The lesson of waiting and having to trust with whole-hearted dependence on God will bring you further than reaping a quick and easy harvest.

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Patience and waiting are not the same thing. Waiting is the action of staying where one is or delaying action until a particular time or until something else happens. Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset. Waiting is the delay, patience is the tolerance of the delay. Patience is the peace of knowing that God has it and is working in you so that He can work through you. Be patient in waiting.

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Your wait may not be about God keeping something from you, but working within you. Wait well. If you wait now you won’t regret later. Wait for God’s best and you won’t have to settle for anything less. His plans supersede our own. These seasons of waiting are the training grounds of becoming. The only thing more difficult than waiting on God is wishing that you had. The best is yet to come.

- Luke Lezon

[bayernsnutella]

Surprised no one posted Mandžukić’s goal with the Titanic music, so here you all go.

[rachelmellema]

“He will put you in situations where you absolutely must have a miracle. The reason He does that is because He wants you to know with all certainty that it is Him working in your life. So don’t be alarmed if the Spirit leads you into situations that are impossible without a miracle from God.”

— Stormie Omartian (via kindly-karlirose)

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[quotemadness]

“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”

— Maya Angelou

[juliamstarr]

Dreamy lavender. <3

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[unapologetically-human]

“I fail at the kind of small talk necessary for partytimes. I am a deep-topic discusser. I am quite capable of talking for hours on hard subjects — like why capitalism may be fundamentally flawed, or how beauty culture harms women, or why so many people refuse to believe that climate change is a real thing that is happening — but I lose the thread on simpler matters.These are not easy conversations; no wonder they make me so tired. But they are the only conversations I reliably know how to have and enjoy. I spent a long time being convinced that something was wrong with me, until I (somewhat randomly) met a few people who owned their introversion without apology, and who felt totally comfortable alerting trusted friends that their ability to be social was at its terminus, and now they must be off to sit quietly in the dark for a bit. I’m allowed to set boundaries? I thought. Even if they’re boundaries other people think are overly-strict, or anti-social, or just weird? AMAZING REVOLUTIONARY LIGHTBULB MOMENT. Introvert, extrovert, or somewhere in between, it’s important to realize that we all respond to social interaction differently, and that it’s not weird or bad if we have a limited tolerance for parties or large gatherings. Our brains aren’t broken, they just work differently, and such individual diversity is the natural way of things. It’s certainly nothing to be ashamed of, or to feel guilty for. It’s just difference, and our difference is what makes us interesting.”

— Lesley Kinzel

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[missuniquee]

My dear lavender!

[wnq-writers]

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)