Esther Earl Quotes
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I dislike the phrase “Internet friends,” because it implies that people you know online aren’t really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.
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What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It’s about showing that you’re willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve.
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Love is Stronger. Love and hope are conjoined, if you separate one, you kill the other. If hope survives then love endures. Where even a sliver of love exists, the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.
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Just, you know . . . remember that you’re lucky even if you don’t think you are. Because there’s always something you can be thankful for.
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Remember that you're lucky even if you don't think you are. Because there's always something you can be thankful for.
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One day I realized, without God, nothing matters. So, I asked Him into my heart.
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My life is really stressful and before finding the vlogbrothers, nerdfighteria, you guys, I wasn't you know dead, but I really do feel like I have so much more in my life.
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I know I always carry her with me, and to have a piece of her grace shine through me is a gift I will continually strive to earn.
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Where even a sliver of love exists the thinnest of hopes has room to grow.
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Bible’s Song of Solomon, “Love is strong as death.” Or perhaps even stronger.
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Saying you love someone is a good thing.
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If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?
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She was a champion of the lonely, a welcomer of strangers, an inviter.
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I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.