“We forget that God’s primary goal is not changing our situations or relationships so that we can be happy, but changing us through our situations and relationships so that we will be holy.”
— Paul David Tripp
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“…it happens that I want you, and so I just haven’t room for any other desires.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.”
— Oliver James (via thoughtkick)
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”
— Oprah Winfrey
(via thoughtkick)
take some time to reflect on how much you’ve grown over the last few months, in any way, whether you started going to therapy, got a new job, gained new interests, finished your exams, started journaling, or even became more empathetic towards yourself. remind yourself that growth is always there, and that it doesn’t need to be incredibly life-changing to hold significance. you are growing in every way; and these things often lead to very bright things.
2019 starts 13 years of Taylor. If that doesn’t make you completely excited and hopeful for what’s to come in the new year, then I don’t know what will.