it matters…

how we treat people…
it matters.

– butterflies rising

a heavy relationship
isn’t the same as a deep love…
a deep love won’t weigh you down,
it will breathe into your soul and
allow you to be free

– butterflies rising

i think, sometimes… we confuse a heavy relationship with a deep love. and maybe it’s not so easy to know the difference. but i don’t think love wants to weigh you down… i think love will let you grow… and breathe into your soul and make you feel alive and free.

– butterflies rising

anyone who tells
you the fairytale isn’t real
just hasn’t found it yet,
or they settled for less, but that’s
their story, not yours.

let yourself believe in your fairytale.

– butterflies rising

to truly listen…

I want to really listen to people. - butterfliesrising.com

“I want to really listen to people. Like really, truly listen, and hear people when they speak. They chose me to share that feeling or that thought with, I want to appreciate that. I want the people in my life to be heard.”
– butterflies rising

and if you are in darkness,
and if they come to you,
and if they reach a hand down
to pull you out,
be sure that if you take their hand
you do not drag them into the dark,
but go with them…

go with them into the light

– butterflies rising

if i don’t
find you in this lifetime,
i will wait for you
until the next

– butterflies rising

you’re not getting this all wrong;
being human is really hard, and things hurt
so much because you’re made of stuff that’s so
much better than this place. so it’s ok to barely
even know how to be human sometimes…
just take it from one breath to the next.

you’re just a soft spirit
in a hard world.

– butterflies rising