Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the big picture, happiness will never come. What profits a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul? "You take from me, yet I will praise You."
He is going to test you He is going to test you and push you and challenge you to new limits inside of yourself You are going to want to give up and give in but His plan is better than that He works better than that And you have to keep going Even when you don't know the direction Even when the road look untraveled upon Even when there no lights to map the roadway Just keep going There is something waiting at the end of this And all this mess is a part of your becoming Those trials prove there is gold Gold all around Gold you just can't see yet but baby it's gonna be so clear one day soon So clear So clear Hannah Brencher Sept 2014
i remember our highs in hues, like the color of his eyes as the sun was setting; the pale of his hands in mine, and the blue of his smile. i remember our sorrows in shades, like the grey of the shadows, which loomed that day, and the white in his lie when he promised to stay. p. 45 Love and Misadventure Lang Leav