There are two ways through life, the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you’ll follow. Grace doesn’t try to please itself; accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it. And love is smiling through all things.
— Tree of Life (via ancora-imparo)
(Source: politics-war)
There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion, or company than a good marriage.
— Martin Luther
learn to write about the ordinary. give homage to old coffee cups, sparrows, city buses, thin ham sandwiches. make a list of everything ordinary you can think of. keep adding to it. promise yourself, before you leave the earth, to mention everything on your list at least once in a poem, short story, newspaper article.
— from the book writing down the bones by natalie goldberg
(Source: loveallthingscomfy)
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
— Martin Luther King, Jr. (via myquotelibrary)
(Source: manpluswest)
