Marisa Donnelly

Cancer: The one who doesn’t understand the depth of your heart.

“You deserve the love you keep trying to give everyone else.” – Bianca Sparacino

This is your reminder that a breakthrough always happens in the midst of pain. That just when you think you can’t resurface, you find air.

I hope that when you feel overwhelmed, instead of taking the pressure upon yourself, you exhale, you pray, and you turn to your Creator.

Pisces: You are beautifully sensitive.

You pretend that what you feel is love for so long that you trick your mind into thinking it is.

I don’t care if there are a million and one reasons why our lives might be easier if we weren’t together; I’d take the most complicated, messy life with you over the one without.

I am not afraid to shed the skin that once was warm with your touch. The familiarity I wore like an extra layer—one, for the longest time, I was too stubborn to take off.

You question everything.

You don’t have to be at home or have a ‘home’ to feel the holiday spirit.

Let 2018 be the year you finally burn with passion—for the things you create, the work you do, the relationships you build or fall into.

You’ve failed.

What defines you is what you choose to be defined by.

I hope you fill yourself with light, become light, create light. I hope you love yourself with such passion and fierceness, the people around you have no choice but to match.

I will survive. We will all survive.

Love is not just a feeling. It is a choice, a decision, an action, a movement.

Sometimes lost love is a reminder. Of who we are. Of our worth.

I’m going to step forward in faith, with confidence, with hope that whatever I face I won’t have to face alone. Because with God in my heart, I won’t.