Listen, He speaks

"Do not be vain, my soul.  Do not deafen your heart's ear with the tumult of your vanity.  Even you have to listen.  The Word Himself cried to you to return.  There is the place of undisturbed quietness where love is not deserted if it does not itself depart"

~St. Augustine, Confessions p. 62

thoughts 'n' stuff

I am a collecter.

I collect words.  Quotes.  Beautiful phrases and compilings of thoughts.  Words, I think, are fascinating things.  You can get a complex thought across with a single word, or you can take paragraphs to say a simple idea.  I have a wall of quotes next to my desk here at school, and because I had so many, now they've spilled over onto my closet doors.

Because I love quotes so much, I decided to write an inspirational quote on the whiteboard outside my dorm door before the freshmen arrived.  I left it up for a week, and at the end, people had written on it "Thank you", "Love this", and "Keep putting these up".

Ok!  So the quote was a hit, and it has become a weekly thing:

Evelyn asked me the other day where I got so many awesome quotes.  Honestly, I just "pick them up"... Some have come from magazines, others from songs, others from blogs and articles online, or from inspirational people.  If I come across a quote online, I'll just quickly jot it down on a piece of paper or type it out on my phone or computer.

What are some of your favorite quotes?
xoxo,

truth

"You ask yourself: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"  Actually, who are you not to be?  You are a child of God."

xoxo,