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I enjoy looking, learning, smiling, and engaging with art, sometimes even rejecting it.


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-Goethe-
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FAY GODWIN If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich v...
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KATE MOSSE Er bestrich sich Stirn und Brust, unwissend, was er aus seinem Zustande machen sollte, und ein unsä...
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ELISABETH SHUE She is a little girl. Her playful spirit is very much alive when she's not working. Even when she is...
ELISABETH SHUE Writing? Pshhh, this is art.
NOELLE ELISABETH The hardest part about being friends, is loving you so much
ELISABETH FOLEY Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of conta...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have e...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally rea...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I prioritize the things that need to get done at work, and I ask myself where I'm spending the m...
ELISABETH HASSELBECK I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’v...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stre...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not the...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
JENNIFER ELISABETH I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this lis...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other peop...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experien...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH You haunt my days and dreams.
JENNIFER ELISABETH If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.
JENNIFER ELISABETH I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.
JENNIFER ELISABETH The Fall will always be yours and mine…
JENNIFER ELISABETH Your personal truth is your gift to the world.
JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinnin...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportuniti...
JENNIFER ELISABETH We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes alm...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenti...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels...
JENNIFER ELISABETH It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.
JENNIFER ELISABETH Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to cha...
JENNIFER ELISABETH I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, ca...
JENNIFER ELISABETH In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I ...
JENNIFER ELISABETH How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and w...
JENNIFER ELISABETH Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desi...
ELISABETH SHUE I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimula...
ELISABETH SHUE Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, ...
ELISABETH LENK To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, “a woman must have money and a room of...
ELISABETH EAVES Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive.
ELISABETH ELLIOT The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to th...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society...
ELISABETH ELLIOT If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pr...
ELISABETH ELLIOT It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who ar...
ELISABETH ELLIOT If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as ...
ELISABETH ELLIOT There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of...
ELISABETH ELLIOT A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the imag...
ELISABETH ELLIOT He who had known the ceaseless worship of angels came to be a slave to men. Preaching, teaching, hea...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's con...
ELISABETH ELLIOT God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His k...
ELISABETH ELLIOT Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addresse...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel th...
ELISABETH ELLIOT A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sove...
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