"I thought I loved you, then the lights came on."

M.Makahanaloa

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You see, we are called to greatness, each and every one of us. We are called to be sons and daughters of God. That instinct—in Gatsby, in Millennials, in anyone—isn’t wrong. But power, wealth, and fame don’t make a person great. Love does that—love for God and love for one another. Likewise, we’re not born sons and daughters of God. We’re made that way by baptism. It’s a gift, not a given.

If we assume the gift without realizing how gracious it is, and then pursue greatness by trying to blaze through the sky on an ever-upward trajectory, we will crash and burn. There will be no life. There will be only death.

If it’s life we want, then it’s love we need to pursue—not the type of self-seeking, self-satisfied love the world glorifies, not the type of love which looks to another human person for meaning and fulfillment—but love which denies itself for the sake of the other and which knows true fulfillment and meaning can be found in only one Person, Jesus Christ.

The way to that love is narrow, not wide. It’s easy to blaze through the sky. It’s difficult to lay oneself low, to be little and humble and meek, to seek to serve rather than be served, to affirm rather than be affirmed. There’s scant glamor in that way, but in the end, it’s the only way worth taking.

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Emily Stimpson, Catholic Vote

"We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God´s compassionate love for others. "

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Saint Claire of Assisi  

(Source: jeromebee)

"The more we get what we now call ‘ourselves’ out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become… The more I resist Him and try to live on my own, the more I become dominated by my own heredity and upbringing and surroundings and natural desires… I am not, in my natural state, nearly so much of a person as I like to believe: most of what I call ‘me’ can be very easily explained… How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints… Christ will indeed give you a real personality: but you must not go to Him for the sake of that… It will come when you are looking for Him… Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."

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C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (via robmlee)

"My heart wants roots
My mind wants wings.
I cannot bear
Their bickerings."

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E.Y. Harburg 

(Source: starthandingoutstars)

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I can’t afford to be too busy to heal. I will do something today that sustains my healing. I will do something every day that contributes to the foundation of my character which will, in progress, positively change everything I touch, everything I do, everything… everything.

I should never go about my daily routine simply getting through the day. Too busy with the works of life to actually handle life with the care it deserves.

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—Malia Makahanaloa

We must use what we learn or we will lose it. 

"And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."

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C.S. Lewis 

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."

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C.S. Lewis