Just like my parents, too
“One of the things my dad used to reiterate to us as we were growing up was this… ‘You should find a man who always sees you as the ultimate prize. In this day and age, men look for their equals and settle for the girl who fits the bill—which is fair—but as a man, it’s always better to find a girl who you feel you don’t deserve. If you choose someone who’s a notch higher than what you would expect for yourself, you’ll always fight to keep her. You wake up each morning feeling like you’re the luckiest guy in the world! That’s how it is for me and your mom’.”
“If there’s one simple thing I’d like to pick up from my parents’ marriage, it’s this—-If you love GOD first then loving each other becomes easy.”
Excerpts from Patty Laurel’s post, “30 Years of Bliss”
Nice, noh? This applies to both girls and guys.
If you’re a tech company or a marketer, your goal is to be the first thing people do when they start their day. If you’re an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/responded/insisted to what happened yesterday.
Meet me offline tonight, ‘cause a 73 x 73 thumbnail isn’t enough you. I want you in the highest resolution, in four dimensions, the only way I know how to look at something beautiful. You weren’t made for the screen you know, and neither was the broken skin where you cut yourself shaving and the almost-invisible hairs that paint the corners of your upper lip and that one crooked eyelash that bends at a 45-degree angle. Who was foolish enough to think they could squeeze everything noteworthy about you into an avatar? You’re too pretty for pixels.
Ladies, dressing provocatively not only discounts how you’re viewed, but it also attracts a lesser type of man. Modesty is hot. I promise.
Whoever said “Nice guys finish last” was MEAN. Nice guys don’t get the same things the MEAN dudes get, not because they were inferior but simply because nice people value different things, things that last a lifetime and provide true fulfillment while mean and shallow people focus their energy on futile and temporary joys.
Language is the means of getting an idea from my brain into yours without surgery.
Stay in the Word. The moment you start letting go of that, you’re on the road to compromise. Stay grounded, remain pure, keep your eyes fixed on Jesus.
DON’T give up. It may not have worked out this time but at least you’ve sifted out one more guy from that sea of men obscuring the guy who will love you for both your lovely bits and your creepy quirks.
(via itsalessia)
This is the time of the year when love and peace fill the atmosphere, when we could openly share Jesus’ love without anyone mocking. Carpe diem!
One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Days that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.
Make sure you’re not BUSY with something that will fade.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
