Words to live by #40

This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find… themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely… they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated. Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?” Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe… life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

Remember Who You Are.

“You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. And you are beautiful.”

Words to live by #39

“The Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials.”

- 2 Peter 2:9

Words to live by #38

“He knows the secrets of the heart.”

Psalm 44:21

Words to live by #37

“See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me.” 

Isaiah 49:16

Feel beautiful.

“I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well.” 

Psalms 139:14

Good relationships feel good.

“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down and trust your instincts. Good relationships feel good, they feel right, the don’t hurt, they are not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people surround yourselves with.”

Be different.

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”

- Cecil Beaton

To all the girls out there!

You deserve to be held, hugged, kissed, and loved. You deserve anything and everything you desire, you deserve your heart and your soul. You deserve the absolute best and you only willing to be with someone who can give that to you. You deserve to be treated like a lady. You deserve the truth, not lies. You deserve to be treated with respect. You deserve to laugh, to have fun, and to enjoy yourself all of the time. No negativity, you deserve the world.

Words to live by #36

Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit. – Proverbs 18:21