because we quit early or we didn’t take the necessary risk to get it. The more boots we put in the back side of our if onlys, the more we will get wh… - Matthew McConaughey

We saw ministries. We saw first responders, counselors, cooks, families trying to grieve without it being on the frontpage news. We met with the local funeral director and countless morticians who — who hadn’t slept since the massacre the day before because they’d been working 24/7 trying to handle so many bodies at once — so many little, innocent bodies who had their entire lives still yet to live. And that is there that we met two of the grieving parents, Ryan and Jessica Ramirez. Their 10-year-old daughter, Alithia — she was one of the 19 children that were killed the day before.

, not a marriage. It’s not obtainable, or sustainable. Until you have a daughter. On January 3, 2010, Vida Alves McConaughey was born. The only honeymoon that lasts forever.

God, when I cross the truth, give me the awareness to receive it the consciousness to recognize it the presence to personalize it the patience to preserve it and the courage to live it