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9d1e7dc If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present. live happy letting-go-of-the-past future inspiration inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes living happiness life inspirational living-in-the-present living-now living-life living-life-to-the-fullest worry focus Roy T. Bennett
21bbaac Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind. mindful gratitude kindness inspiration inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life positive positive-thinking optimism life truth inspirational living-life mindfulness Roy T. Bennett
b8fee32 Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone's life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance. light learning meaning inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes life wisdom inspirational meaningful-life goals-in-life living-life light-and-darkness giving meaning-of-life meaningful wise goals learn Roy T. Bennett
b25e243 No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future. inspiration inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes life inspirational living-in-the-present living-life worry worrying Roy T. Bennett
92dd79b Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are. kindness inspiration inspirational-quotes life-quotes life inspirational living-life kind Roy T. Bennett
01184ff Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces. wisdom-in-life pain freedom learning beauty inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life-lessons life wisdom inspirational living-life heal growing flying healing painful flight wisdom-quotes growth hurt wind experience wings hurting C. JoyBell C.
77a1d61 People have to forgive. We don't have to like them, we don't have to be friends with them, we don't have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don't we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry! tying-rocks-to-our-feet inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life inspirational living-life forgiving flying wisdom-quotes wings forgive forgiveness C. JoyBell C.
8fa29fc I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human. passion humanism human humanity inspiration inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living life inspirational sacredness living-life sanctity feeling dancing purity human-nature C. JoyBell C.
8eddf6c The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them. dream-comes-true dreams-come-true dream inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living positive-affirmation positive-life dreams inspiring positive-thinking positivity motivational life inspirational dreams-quotes motivational-inspirational living-life Roy T. Bennett
842e668 Live the Life of Your Dream action being-positive live perseverance inspiration living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life dreams positive positive-thinking motivational optimism life inspirational startup achievement setbacks believe-in-yourself living-life act do self-belief doing obstacles hard-work start belief mistakes Roy T. Bennett
0b2f46c Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you. inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspiring life inspirational living-life self C. JoyBell C.
d2385a1 Dreams don't work unless you take action. The surest way to make your dreams come true is to live them. action dream-comes-true dreams-come-true take-actions take-action dream inspiration inspirational-quotes inspire life-quotes living positive-affirmation positive-life dreams inspiring positive-thinking positivity motivational life inspirational dreams-quotes motivational-inspirational living-life do Roy T. Bennett
43ccf31 When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore. fulfilling-your-potential goodbye-cinderella personal-fulfillment personal-limits soaring your-full-potential freedom learning inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life inspirational achievement cinderella living-life fulfillment changing growing flying potential breaking-free self-growth self-discovery limits waiting running C. JoyBell C.
1c6156b For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race. human-race life-s-journey the-journey two-wings perfection people humanity inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life truth wisdom inspirational living-life flying imperfection flight wisdom-quotes perfect ancient wings journey C. JoyBell C.
d2caa38 When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay. greyness learning inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living god life-lessons life inspirational childishness living-life black-and-white childish growing grey differences wrong-and-right growth right-and-wrong different C. JoyBell C.
51abc91 There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am. rawness readiness perfection bravery courage inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living life inspirational living-life ready raw C. JoyBell C.
456e8e6 The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank. opportunity life-long-learning living-life open-mindedness innovation Steven Johnson
dd2edc2 Living with life is very hard. Mostly we do our best to stifle life--to be tame or to be wanton. To be tranquillised or raging. Extremes have the same effect; they insulate us from the intensity of life. And extremes--whether of dullness or fury--successfully prevent feeling. I know our feelings can be so unbearable that we employ ingenious strategies--unconscious strategies--to keep those feelings away. We do a feelings-swap, where we avoid feeling sad or lonely or afraid or inadequate, and feel angry instead. It can work the other way, too--sometimes you do need to feel angry, not inadequate; sometimes you do need to feel love and acceptance, and not the tragic drama of your life. It takes courage to feel the feeling--and not trade it on the feelings-exchange, or even transfer it altogether to another person. You know how in couples one person is always doing all the weeping or the raging while the other one seems so calm and reasonable? I understood that feelings were difficult for me although I was overwhelmed by them. feelings life extremes inadequate living-life avoidance suppression Jeanette Winterson
37216e3 There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. living life living-life L.M. Montgomery
22ef26f There isn't any such thing as an ordinary life. (92) living life living-life L.M. Montgomery
6503248 After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds... solitude living living-life Jack Kerouac
f33249f There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything. suicide life-and-living living life living-life living-life-to-the-fullest Nick Hornby
86f1069 Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. death living-life problems endings growing-older Colum McCann
7c371c6 I'll live as well, as deeply, as madly as I can--until I die. living living-life living-well Anne Lamott
14a490b This is the greatest consolation in life. In poetically well-built museums, formed from the heart's compulsions, we are consoled not by finding in them old objects that we love, but by losing all sense of Time. time living-life museums timelessness Orhan Pamuk
3f72361 Here's the sting of livingness. He's back after his nightly voyage of sleep, all clarity and purpose; he's renewed his citizenship in the world of people who strive and connect, people who mean business, people who burn and want, who remember everything, who walk lucid and unafraid. living-life Michael Cunningham
7c4f66d You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets. inspirational-quotes living strength life-lessons life inspirational black-power people-of-color living-now life-lessons-quotes living-life blackness Ta-Nehisi Coates
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