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Nursing
That's a lie.
they speak about being the love in a world often shown to be full of hate; they find ways to make the Bible relatable and I don’t leave feeling like I’m not enough of a Christian to call myself one.
See that's part of why i don't go to church. I haven't found one that makes me feel this way yet
It’s all about equality between the sexes.” “Then why aren’t tampons free yet?”
typing “LOOOL” with a straight face
I feel like that happens everytime someone uses lol. It's mostly ironic nowadays
It’s about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person.”
“Ben, it’s only a ‘card’ to people who think it’s a game.”
Dr Reid,
As in Dr. Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds?!
Worst’ would imply there’s something wrong with you—and there’s not. A person’s troubles are not measured by the size of those troubles, but by how much they weigh on the individual carrying them.
It cannot be your responsibility, your burden, to reshape people into someone you’d like them to be. Ultimately, you must either accept a person for who they are, how they behave, how they express themselves emotionally, and find a healthy way to live with them, or let them go entirely. Either way, you must release yourself from that responsibility.”
“You don’t deserve to have other people’s comments and actions eat away at you five days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. My dad always says: ‘Regardless of how you behave, a lot of things are going to be out of your control because this world was made to test you. Protect your peace in whatever and every way that you can.”’
people don’t just affect me, but that I affect others—
