To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.
C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (via decrepito)
Aloha :D My name is Normie Jean, but I'm more simply known as Normie, Norms or Mimi. Lived a journey 20 chapters long, and I'm still aiming to discover the lifetime purpose given to me by God, and to continue, each day, evolving and growing as a person. I am a lover of God, my Catholic faith, my family and friends, whom I've coined as the "wonderful people" and a multitude of simple life-joys: discovering inspiration from a wide sp»
It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.an of sources and in all different shapes and sizes, music (a feel-good therapy for the soul), reading and writing my world away, laughing until my stomach hurts, having heart to heart, random, intellectual conversations, learning new things, dancing for fun, being involved, living healthy, living Hawaii <3 chilling with my four-legged stress relievers, (my dogs, Peace and Nibbie) and the list traverses onward.
"We are the light of the world. Let our light shine before all, that they may see the good that we do and give glory to God."
"I can do all things, for He gives me strength."
