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Help those who most need help!

Photo by Julie Remy/MSF 

After being turned away from a facility for asylum-seekers in Bogovadja, Serbia, a refugee from Syria seeks help from a MSF medical volunteer. 

On their journey through the Balkans to seek safety and assistance in Europe, many asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants become stranded in forests and abandoned buildings in Serbia. They struggle through the cold weather without sufficient food or shelter, and have limited access to basic medical care. What’s more, they are often exposed to criminal networks, physical attacks, and robberies.

11 Messages Of Female Empowerment From Women In Hollywood

Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.

Robert Brault (via wordsnquotes)

#soulmates

Do not pass me off as a delicate flower. I’ve bled like you. I’ve scrapped the skin on my knees and ripped the seams of my fingertips like any other man. And just as a man, I’ve ached in my bones and forged fury from my person. I am as delicate as a flower with prickly thorns.

splenduit (via wnq-writers)

Dignity /ˈdignitē/ noun 1. The moment you realize that the person you cared for has nothing intellectually or spiritually to offer you, but a headache. 2. The moment you realize God had greater plans for you that don’t involve crying at night or sad Pinterest quotes. 3. The moment you stop comparing yourself to others because it undermines your worth, education and your parent’s wisdom. 4. The moment you live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do. People’s opinions don’t matter. 5. The moment you realize that no one is your enemy, except yourself. 6. The moment you realize that you can have everything you want in life. However, it takes timing, the right heart, the right actions, the right passion and a willingness to risk it all. If it is not yours, it is because you really didn’t want it, need it or God prevented it. 7. The moment you realize the ghost of your ancestors stood between you and the person you loved. They really don’t want you mucking up the family line with someone that acts anything less than honorable. 8. The moment you realize that happiness was never about getting a person. They are only a helpmate towards achieving your life mission. 9. The moment you believe that love is not about losing or winning. It is just a few moments in time, followed by an eternity of situations to grow from. 10. The moment you realize that you were always the right person. Only ignorant people walk away from greatness.

Shannon L. Alder (via wordsnquotes)

Such truth. Let's all have a little dignity for ourselves.

You’ve got to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Janet Fitch (via wordsnquotes)

Working on it

You looked me with such tenderness behind your eyes that I fought the urge to run so much my hands trembled. You thought I was just nervous, but it was for all the wrong reasons. For once in my life I am certain of something, I never have to be afraid of you hurting me. You’re so sure of how you feel, you forget that I haven’t dropped my sword. My amour still stands, although the warmth of your embrace may melt the metal.

Anonymous (via wnq-writers)

New love

But beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.

lorijenessanelson (via wnq-writers)

We are all #mosaics

I’ve always put your happiness before mine and maybe that’s why I’m sad. I’ve put everyone’s happiness before mine expecting someone to do the same and no one ever did.

un-mas-ked (via wordsnquotes)

One day someone will.

Promise

"When the dark is all around you And the night is closing in, I will be beside you, To save you from within.

When the light outside is blinding And shows up all your scars, I will be the portrait, To show them who you are.

When the wind outside is howling And threatens to break you down, I will be the anchor, To keep you in the calm.

When everything is failing And you don’t know where you are, I will be the compass, To lead you safe from harm.”

-Dan

Beauty can be found everywhere.

We were honored to help Jordanians and Syrian refugees breakthrough conflict and come together to build this beautiful new girls’ school in Za’atari Village.

Doing what he loves, where he loves to be.

John by Hurley’s instagram.

You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Maya Angelou, “Still I Rise” (via wordsnquotes)

#mayaangelou #rise

I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. And I’m going to figure out what that is.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower  (via wordsnquotes)

I can be someone’s and still be my own.

 Shel Silverstein  (via wordsnquotes)

Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belonging to a man - a woman who was ‘one-in-herself’. The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chastity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus - they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chastity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched.

Monica Sjoo, The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth  (via thewaking)

Literally the most important thing you will read today.

(via darvll)

#virgin #femalestrength

I don’t want perfect, I want honest.

Unknown (via wordsnquotes)

#honesty

One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.

Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper (via wordsnquotes)

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere—on water and land.

Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass (via bookmania)

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

Harlan Ellison (via wordsnquotes)

Ignorance isn't bliss!!

#schweinsteiger #fussball #bayernmunich

Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships or starve their beautiful bodies. But sometimes, you get a little older and get a little bored of the demon. Through good therapy and friends and self-love you can practice treating the demon like a hacky, annoying cousin.

Amy Poehler, Yes Please (via wordsnquotes)

Neuer is amazing!! #bundesliga #Neuer #goalie

#feminist

Best goalie in the world #germansoccer #neuer

You are more than a list of mistakes and if anyone tells you otherwise, let it be the last they make.

Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via wordsnquotes)

You are so much more!

I missed your presence the same way I missed that picture on my wall. Something just wasn’t right about that nail sticking out of the wall, nothing hanging from it. Sometimes I forgot about it, but whenever I looked at that nail I used to feel the heavy absence of what was once there. Until another picture took its place.

i-write-to-voice-my-demons, The Missing Picture  (via wordsnquotes)

You were hurt badly, and those scars will be with you for ever. I feel sorry for you, I really do. But think of it like this: it’s not too late to recover. You’re young, you’re tough. You’re adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via wordsnquotes)

#strong #lifegoeson

I have been here and walked along the river. Beautiful city!!

Bern, Switzerland (by Nomadic Vision Photography)

#jesuischarlie

People in Paris raise pens during rally in support of Charlie Hebdo attack victims #JeSuisCharlie

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