I want a life that sizzles, and pops, and makes me laugh out loud.
And, I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even,
and realize that my life is a collection of meetings, and pop cans,
and errands, and receipts, and dirty dishes.
I want to eat cold tangerines,
and sing out loud in the car, with the windows open,
and wear pink shoes, dance in the rain, and stay up all night laughing,
and paint my walls the exact color of the sky, right now.
I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets, and throw parties,
and eat ripe cherry tomatoes,
and read books so good, they make me jump up and down,
and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh,
glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift."
— Shauna Niequist
Figuring myself out one day at a time. I have an overwhelming desire to wake up an optimist every single day. My favorite color is any shade of blue you can imagine. I believe in world peace♥
“Whenever you are faced with a choice a decision or an opportunity,
choose in favor of your passions.”But there is a stumbling block many people trip over on their way to creating the life of their dreams: Their own thoughts.“What you see you become” is a quote from a Vedic text from ancient India. It doesn’t mean when you see a donkey you become a donkey.It means that what you perceive is filtered through the thoughts you have about that thing. Your thoughts, your beliefs, the concepts and ideas you hold about your life and what is experienced in that life are what determine how you experience life.
You see your life can be filled with miracles—if you believe it can. Your life can also be a tragedy, i f that’s what you believe it is.
Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.
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― Roopleen, Words to inspire the winner in YOU
Did my courage make you crazy? Cripple you with the unknown?
Did my silence create desire—make you feel things you could not discern?
Is my shinning light exploding? Can your eyes not yet adjust?
Is my forgiveness running through you? Knowing your pain I will not digest?
Is my confidence disrupting the girl you LOVE to HATE the most?”
― Coco J. Ginger
“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to stretch out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if that means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us. And to save us.”
— Paulo Coelho By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
She was glad to have been the first to reveal to those people the evil hidden in the depths of their false, ingenuous souls. They were all dreaming of the chance to commit a murder – only dreaming, mind you, because they would never actually do anything. They would spend the rest of their lives asleep, endlessly telling themselves how noble they were, how incapable of committing an injustice, ready to defend the village’s dignity at whatever cost, yet aware that terror alone had prevented them from killing an innocent. They would congratulate themselves every morning on keeping their integrity, and blame themselves each night for that missed opportunity.
Playing the part of a charitable soul was only for those who were afraid of taking a stand in life. It is always far easier to have faith in your own goodness than to confront others and fight for your rights. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we’re not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it’s only at night – when we’re alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleep – that we can silently grieve over our own cowardice.”
“She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.”
There is no tragedy, only the unavoidable. Everything has its reason for being: you only need to distinguish what is temporary from what is lasting. What is temporary?… The unavoidable… and what is lasting?… The lessons of the unavoidable.”
Profound commitment to a dream does not confine or constrain: it liberates. Even a difficult, winding path can lead to your goal if you follow to the end.”
~ Maktub
Never abandon your dreams. Follow the signs.” The Alchemist
Open your heart and listen to what it is telling you. Follow your dreams, because only a man who is unashamed of himself can manifest the glory of God.” The Valkyries
Cowards never allow their hearts to blaze with this fire: all they desire is for the changed situation to quickly return to what it was before, so they can go on living their lives and thinking in their customary way. The brave however, set afire that which was old and, even a the cost of great internal suffering, abandon everything and continue onward.”
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
~ Pearl S. Buck
