Marisa Donnelly

You’d rather keep your thoughts or feelings to yourself than risk hurting your partner’s feelings or starting an argument.

Cancer: Your need for security.

I bring passion
into places where there is none. I turn flickers
into flames.

“I call on the LORD in my distress, and he answers me.” — Psalm 120:1

It’s okay if you’re a mess, if you’re still ‘figuring it out,’ if your lost or trying to find your way—life isn’t about having it all together, but about moving forward—day by day, step by step.

What matters to me is that I live fearlessly, is that I love boldly, is that I look back and know I gave this life and the people in it everything I had.

Your need to have the last word.

We have to understand that we’re still discovering parts of ourselves, but that doesn’t mean we’re any less whole. We were never, are never incomplete. We are simply evolving.

Heartbreak is not meant to be a permanent resident.

Know that no matter what happens next, you have a God who loves you. And there is nothing to fear.

‘Physical Touch’: Create an embrace that’s uniquely yours.

I will choose you,
because I do not see another choice
that ends as beautifully.
Not another choice I would rather make.

James Barker Band, “Chills.”

No man who loves you will make you feel as if you’re compromising yourself to be with him. Because that’s not love, that’s manipulation.

I want to be the kind of person whose laugh lights up a room, whose smile brings one across your face unconsciously. The kind of person who never half-does or half-loves, but pours her entire heart into everything and everyone.

Whether your life is falling into place or spinning out of your control, I am here. And I am not going anywhere.

You are a daughter or son of an Almighty force, of a passionate deity, of a powerful being who loves and values you beyond measure.

I want to be the drop of color in your darkness, the light that never fades out of your mind, the thought always floating in your head, a necessary piece of you.