John Mark Green Quotes

Refuse to blame yourself for not being 'good enough
John Mark Green
Your heart plays a song like a broken music box, but nothing ever sounded quite so beautiful to me. Together, in the dance of wounded-wing swans we’ll rise above the ruins, melting into the golden light.
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He'd been saving up his love for years and years, waiting for the right personto spend his fortune on.
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The self-righteous scream judgments against others to hide the noise of skeletons dancing in their own closets.
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I'll be your blanket, baby. Wrap yourself up in me. Let me give you shelter, in the winter of this world.
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Looking back at our lives, the unbelievable thing is that despite all the times when things felt so wrong, we still managed to meet at the perfect moment. Almost as if by some plan which we were unaware of.
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You are the artist, and your days the canvas. Will you create an original masterpiece, or live a paint-by-numbers kind of life?
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In a relationship, no amount of extra effort on your part can make up for a lack of effort on theirs.
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As you remove toxic people from your life, you free up space and emotional energy for positive, healthy relationships.
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Out of the void and vastness of the cosmos, life emerges; audacious, improbable. You and I are here. No other miracle is needed.
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Hope is a flower which refuses to be crushed under life's brutal heel.
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Through your eyesI am learningto see myself.Through your heartI am learningto love myself.In the chrysalisof your acceptanceI can feel myselfbecoming.
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Each of us is a story, waiting for a devoted reader who will take us off the shelf and embrace all our plot twists.
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You’ll never have control over other people's decisions, or what cards life deals you. Your power lies in the choosing of your response. That is the one thing you can control.
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One by one she slew her fears, and then planted a flower garden over their graves.
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She is a wild, tangled forest with temples and treasures concealed within.
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After what she's been through, there really should be crime scene tape around her heart.
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Things began happening with odd synchronicity, as if the universe itself was conspiring on behalf of their love story.
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Her kiss dissolves the universe. In that moment, I am unmade and then reborn.
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I'm a pusher dealing hope, at the intersection of Desire and Despair.
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Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom.
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As the waves relentlessly seek the shore, so my thoughts continually return to you.
John Mark Green
The Ache That Would Not LeaveBehind the hum and routine of daily living, there lay a persistent and wild longing for something she could not easily put into words. It felt like impulsive adventures and watching the sun rise over unfamiliar mountains, or coffee in a street café, set to the background music of a foreign language. It was the smell of the ocean, with dizzying seagulls whirling in a cobalt sky; exotic foods and strange faces, in a city where no one knew her name. She wanted secrets whispered at midnight, and road trips without a map, but most of all, she ached for someone who desired to explore the mysteries that lay sleeping within her. The truly heartbreaking part was that she could feel the remaining days of her life falling away, like leaves from an autumn tree, but still this mysterious person who held the key to unlock her secrets did not arrive; they were missing, and she knew not where to find them.
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Do you believe in magic?" she asked. "I believe in you," he said. "And you're the closest thing to magic that I've found.
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I kiss your tear-stained cheeks, tasting the saltiness of a hidden sea of sorrow.
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