“I was already headed for Hell, I might as well enjoy the ride.”

Why couldn’t I have just made it home without seeing them? I wasn’t in the mood to play good freaking Samaritan to Beau and his trashy girlfriend.

Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I’d be leaving my girl behind?

You’re my existence. I’m yours

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

Maybe not this year or the next but one day they’d end up married. In this lifetime and every one after it. Just knowing that I’d get to watch them find each other and fall in love in every life made me smile.

Unconditional love is hard to compete with.

I’m not losing you again. You’re with me. I want you there beside me. Always.

Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other’s destiny.

You want to know what happened? YOU happened Rush. That’s what happened.

You’re ever song I have ever sung. I’ll never let anything hurt you again. For the first time in my life, my dreams aren’t about me. They’re about you.” -Jax

You love me?” … “Yes. More than life.

Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don’t let her be lonely. Don’t let her hurt. Please.

You aren’t what I expected. I wish you were. It’d be so much easier.

death had just shred a tear

Is she forever for you then? She’s worth throwing it all away?” “She’s it. No one else. She’s all I’m ever going to want.

By Liberty I understand the Power which every Man has over his own Actions, and his Right to enjoy the Fruits of his Labour,

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

I think I write for reluctant readers. Of course I want everyone to enjoy my books, but if the kids in the back row who normally don’t pick up a book are engaged with what I’m writing, along with the kids who are big readers anyway, then I really feel like I’ve done my job.

This is why so many churches quench the motivation of people for ministry. In our shoes, Paul would say: Remember the grace God has showered on you—what does living out and enjoying that grace look like in this situation?

Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.

The debility to which Nature condemned women incontestably proves that her design is for man, who then more than ever enjoys his strength, to exercise it in all the violent forms that suit him best, by means of tortures, if he be so inclined, or worse.