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Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus (via gill-man)

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’ Muhammad Ali: In His Own Words (via life)

Clever Christianity

While driving home tonight, I saw a church sign that read something to the effects of “Free trip to heaven, just come inside.’ and I realized while I cynically rolled my eyes that someone picked that because they though it was clever and catchy. The thing is, it works. Very likely the people that alreadyContinue reading “Clever Christianity”

apoplecticskeptic: Tears. Every. Single. Time.

If we do not leap then we’ll never understand what it is to fly. Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

2011: One long Panic Attack…without chocolate.

Mostly, for my own retrospective sake, here’s the highlighted events of the past year. It hasn’t been easy, by any means, but I have learned much; hopefully this next year will be a little kinder. Monasteries I was able to bookend 2011 with retreats to Sacred Heart Monastery in Alabama. In the beginning of theContinue reading “2011: One long Panic Attack…without chocolate.”

No one told me Narnia was on the Appalachian Trail. (Taken with instagram)

strangersintransit: 01.08.2012 — paris, france — by clok_moitié. the twin readers.

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for theContinue reading