John Mark Green

You are the artist, and your days the canvas. Will you create an original masterpiece, or live a paint-by-numbers kind of life?

In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.

Out of the void and vastness of the cosmos, life emerges; audacious, improbable. You and I are here. No other miracle is needed.

Hope is a flower which refuses to be crushed under life's brutal heel.

As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.

Through your eyesI am learningto see myself.Through your heartI am learningto love myself.In the chrysalisof your acceptanceI can feel myselfbecoming.

Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists.

You__l never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control.

One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.

She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.

After what she's been through, there really should be crime scene tape around her heart.

Things began happening with odd synchronicity, as if the universe itself was conspiring on behalf of their love story.

Her kiss dissolves the universe. In that moment, I am unmade and then reborn.