Tiny Beautiful Things

It’s what most of us have to give a few times over the course of our lives: to love with a mindfully clear sense of purpose, even when it feels outrageous to do so.

Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting, conditional, unconditional, imbued with sorrow, stoked by sex, sullied by abuse, amplified by kindness, twisted by betrayal, deepened by time, darkened by difficulty, leavened by generosity, nourished by humor, and “loaded with promises and commitments” that we may or may not want or keep. The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence

How much power you give those feelings is entirely up to you.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.

Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to

doing is so much greater than the burden of doing.

when we’re
in the presence of someone else’s pain, the burden of not-

She’ll offer you one of the balloons, but you won’t take it because you believe you no longer have a right

really, really love women and don’t know if I could ever just turn it off. I also don’t want to end up another distant, difficult, noncommunicative male unsure of his own feelings.