take heart

on a daily mission to make life beautiful.

[bradplumer]

“Still,” wrote van Gogh in a letter, “a great deal of light falls on everything.”

[instigator-of-joy]

“i get the invitation every morning when i wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. it doesn’t come in an envelope. it’s ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. it’s the invitation to actually live life, to fully participate in this amazing life for one more day. turning down this invitation comes in lots of flavors. it looks like numbing yourself or distracting yourself or seeing something really beautiful as just normal. it can also look like refusing to forgive or not being grateful or getting wrapped around the axle with fear or envy. i think every day God sends us an invitation to live and sometimes we forget to show up or get head-faked into thinking we haven’t really been invited. but you see, we have been invited – every day, all over again.”

— Love Does // Bob Goff (via onheradventure)

[quiet-spirittt-deactivated20221]

“The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, its tides and its depths; it has its pearls too.”

— Vincent van Gogh (via vincentvangogh-art)

[instigator-of-joy]

“i get the invitation every morning when i wake up to actually live a life of complete engagement, a life of whimsy, a life where love does. it doesn’t come in an envelope. it’s ushered in by a sunrise, the sound of a bird, or the smell of coffee drifting lazily from the kitchen. it’s the invitation to actually live life, to fully participate in this amazing life for one more day. turning down this invitation comes in lots of flavors. it looks like numbing yourself or distracting yourself or seeing something really beautiful as just normal. it can also look like refusing to forgive or not being grateful or getting wrapped around the axle with fear or envy. i think every day God sends us an invitation to live and sometimes we forget to show up or get head-faked into thinking we haven’t really been invited. but you see, we have been invited – every day, all over again.”

— Love Does // Bob Goff (via onheradventure)

[coffeebooksandmountains]

It’s a Hozier kind of night.

[books-n-quotes]

I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you’re with them.

Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist (via books-n-quotes)

[storehouseandfields-deactivated]

“The promise of love and grace in our lives is this: Our worst day isn’t bad enough, and our best day isn’t good enough. We’re invited because we’re loved, not because we earned it.”

—Bob Goff, Everybody Always

[gratitudechangesthings-deactiva]

“Let nothing come between you and the light.”

— Henry David Thoreau (via peonyie)

[gloriouspraises-deactivated2015]

[afterhisownheart]

“Do not fear to lose what needs to be lost.”

— Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings (via wordsnquotes)

[ponderation]

Evening Mood by Bernard Thum

[best-life-wisdom]

[expressions-of-nature]

by Ustav Shah

[deceptivelips]

“I hope there are days when your coffee tastes like magic, your playlist makes you dance, strangers make you smile, and the night sky touches your soul. I hope there are days when you fall in love with being alive.”

— Brooke Hampton

[dirt-legends]

Springtime above Salt Lake City - sound on

[goodreadss]

“There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.”

— Vincent van Gogh (via goodreadss)

[jakedebruyckere]