crazy beautiful

sometimes people say things they don't mean or do things they can't take back. but what i have done is not who i will be. unburden yourself from the mistakes of the past. and when you do, your heart grows stronger.

I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.

—Donald Miller (To Own a Dragon: Reflections on Growing Up Without a Father)

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