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“You can’t give up on someone just because the situation’s not ideal. Great relationships aren’t great because they have no problems. They’re great because both people care enough about the other person to find a way to make it work.”

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“I do not need someone to complete me. But if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.”

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“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”

— Confucius (via perfeqt)

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“Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that’s going to help you to grow.”

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“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced… . It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad.”

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“Good people sometimes make bad decisions. They mess up, and the let others down. But that doesn’t make them bad people. We all make mistakes.”

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“She’s a dreamer, a doer, a thinker. She sees possibilities everywhere.”

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You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting -

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.

Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver.

I know I’ve posted this a few times before, but I needed it this morning after a night of troubled thought. Maybe somebody else needs it, too.

You do not have to be good...whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself...

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Another leftover from our #asimpleevening #linkinprofile http://ift.tt/2cj5YZN

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Cob houses everyone! Sustainable and cheap building materials. Cozy, sexy cottage material!!!! You can build them yourself!

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After building this lovely hobbit house without obtaining the proper permits, local officials in Wales declared it an eyesore and ordered it to be demolished, b/c it was built on protected countryside property, even though it belonged to the owner’s father.

It has a beautiful tree in the middle, supporting the 2nd floor. 

Luckily, after several years of fighting to save it, the town finally relented and the young family of 3 was allowed to stay. Huzzah!

treehugger.com

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“People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow Of The Wind

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