When mean people hurt you, think of them as sandpapers.  They may rub and scratch you painfully, but eventually, you will end up smooth and polished; while they end up worthless . . . . .

image from: Making the Buckle Plate

Others feast . . . . .

While others can’t . . . . .

Whatever you insist on and what life seems to shove on your face are two different things.

image from: Syllabus:  Ethics and World Hunger, City-Data.com and World Hunger Project respectively (last 3 photos only)

NOTE: Edited to add the first 3 photos to send the message more clearly.

If a relationship is truly meant for you, your love will find a way to make it happen, and God will be there to make sure it will stay.

Rivers don’t drink the water they carry.

Trees don’t eat the fruit they bear.

Clouds don’t bathe in the rain they produce.

We are meant to give, even if we get nothing from it.

Measuring life by what others do may disappoint us, but measuring life by what we do will make life meaningful.

image from: The Giving Tree

No matter how strong we hold on, still there comes a time when we suddenly fall . . . . .

- Lizard

image from: lizardcentre.com

These are the two things I say to myself when I get sad. They are so beautiful and inspiring. It has been my ‘hobby’ to write them in all the books I own, including dictionaries and my organizer/planner. I say them to myself whenever I remember the loss of the baby we’ve been waiting and all the physical and emotional pain I felt with it, and whenever something that I have planned turned to something I don’t expect. I hope you like these too . . . . .

‘For I know the plans I have for you’, declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’ – Jeremiah29:11

‘God will never leave you. He will replace everything you lost. If He asks you to put something down, it’s because He wants you to pick up something better.’

A woman is always right.

Sometimes she may be confused, misinformed, rude, stubborn, unclear, changeable, even downright stupid.

But never, never wrong