Wanderlust

“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.”

If it doesn’t feel right to you, let it go. Allow for your heart to be free. As powerful as it is, it doesn’t have to hold onto absolutely everything.

“Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.”

“I like being outside at night. It gives me this weird feeling, like I’m homesick but not for home.”

“We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.”

“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks. For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”

Green Village in China

“There are billions of other people out there existing in this current moment. And you know what? Not a single one of them could even remotely replace you.”

“She had a look of suffering and I was struck less by her beauty than by the extraordinary loneliness in her eyes.”

“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful, I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”

“She’s a mess of gorgeous chaos and you can see it in her eyes.”