v i c t o r i o u s;

I consider myself a perpetual student. You seek and learn every day: from an experiment in the lab, from reading a scientific journal, from taking care of a patient. Because of this, I rarely get bored.

I have never been one for loving shallowly. My feelings for those I love run deeper into the earth than the roots of a giant oak tree. When I fall in love, I fall into the deep end of the pool. I have no intentions of loving anyone who will not do the same for me.

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

I loved the smell of ocean water. Salt always smells like memory.

Being empathic means: ‘To be with another in this way means that for the time being you lay aside the views and values you hold for yourself in order to enter another’s world without prejudice. In some sense it means that you lay aside your self and this can only be done by a person who is secure enough in himself that he knows he will not get lost in what may turn out to be the strange or bizarre world of the other, and can comfortably return to his own world when he wishes. Perhaps this description makes clear that being empathic is a complex, demanding, strong yet subtle and gentle way of being.’

culturenlifestyle:

I don’t even mind that life made me wait so long to find you. The waiting only made the finding sweeter.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Having a soft heart in a cruel world is courage, not weakness.