Livy

"Look up into the heavens. Who created all the stars? He brings them out like an army, one after another, calling each by its name. Because of His great power and incomparable strength, not a single one is missing."

- Isaiah 40:26 (via -dejalenae-)

(via sheisaloverofchrist)

"And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage. […] Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without these one stays dead. But whenever affection is revived, there life revives."

- Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (July 1880)

(Source: gaws, via frankocean)

"Give Me all of you! I don’t want “so much” of your time, “so much” of your talents and money, and “so much” of your work. I want you! All of you! I have not come to torment or frustrate the natural man or woman, but to kill it! No half measures will do. I don’t want to only prune a branch here and a branch there; rather I want the whole tree out! Hand it over to Me, the whole outfit, all of your desires, all of your wants and wishes and dreams. Turn them ALL over to Me, give yourself to Me and I will make of you a new self—-in My image. Give Me yourself and in exchange I will give you Myself. My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart."

- C. S. Lewis (via shesaloverofchrist)

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"I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most."

- Margaret Atwood (via bookmania)

"People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves."

- Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted (via liquidnight)

"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder…"

- Henry David Thoreau (via whatstheenpointe)