January 2011
45 posts
When you're at a restaurant and you see your food...
kidsgivemehope:
I spend my Saturdays volunteering in an orphanage in Mongolia. The kids are about five years old, and love to play. Despite having a hard life, and not even speaking the same language as the volunteers, they have the biggest smiles on their faces when we come to play with them. These kids GMH.
“you are limitless.”
– there are no limits to what you can do. (via livethelife)
“Just as the bird has to find the courage to let go of the branch in order to...”
– Julia White (via likethesun) (via happythings)
“If you discovered something that made you tighten inside , you had better try to...”
– Message in a Bottle (Nicholas Sparks) (via quote-book) (via elevenfive) (via floatingclouds) (via happythings)
“Hitch your wagon to a star.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
kidsgivemehope:
Today I was watching the news. I saw a story about a little girl who lived in a low income neighborhood who was giving her toys to homeless children. When the reporter asked her why, she responded, “Because Christmas is more about giving to the less fortunate”. Her innocent kindness GMH.
“A wise man once said, “You can have anything in life, if you will sacrifice...”
– Grey Anatomy (Season 2, Episode 24) (via Safari Poet)
I can watch this forever..
reachforthestar-s:
scream-tobeheard:
“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past...”
– Marcel Pagnol (via kari-shma)
“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
– William Arthur Ward (via kari-shma)
I am a teacher and today, due to some “strange”...
lovegivesmehope:
When I got to my classroom, all of my kids were holding roses and the words “Will You Marry Me?” were written on the board. My boyfriend, who has been stationed in Iraq for the past year, was down on one knee. His LGMH.
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they...”
– Anais Nin (via momopotato)
“To achieve great things, we must first dream!”
– Coco Chanel (via kari-shma)
December 2010
195 posts
No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to fall in love, has to memorize poems, has to jump off bridges into rivers, has to stand in an empty desert and whisper sonnets under his breath… We get one story, you and I, and one story alone.
