Inspiration for the Mind, Body & Soul
A BLOG DEVOTED TO SHARING POSITIVE AND ENCOURAGING MESSAGES FOR THE HUNGRY HEART
“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”
― Christine Feehan
Life is an all or nothing kind of thing. It’s not something you can do halfway. Either commit fully, which means accepting the highs with the lows, or let life pass you by. The choice is yours.
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. ”
― Oprah Winfrey
Life is happening right at this moment. So, you must always strive not to waste one second for you aren’t promised anymore. It is therefore important to make the conscious effort to engage in the present. Tomorrow is not promised and yesterday is a thing of the past. But, this moment right now is yours alone to do what you please with. Don’t let it go to waste.
“This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy.”
― Susan Polis Schutz
This life is what you choose to make of it. You can choose to fully embrace all that life has to offer – both good and bad – and learn what it means to live life to the fullest. Or, you can choose to go through life with a chip on your shoulder because you feel you’ve been dealt a bad hand. Ultimately, you decide the quality and value of your life.
“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
No matter how bad you think you have it, you still have life. Never forget that it is a privilege to live and no matter how hard things may seem, there is always something beautiful within life. For some are fighting for their life, their right to exist, which so many of us take for granted. So, make it a habit to reflect each day on what you are grateful for as a daily reminder of how precious life truly is.
“If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you’re going to fly.”
― Steve Maraboli
You are the company you keep. So, always remember to surround yourself with people who lift you up and let go of those who are holding you back from being your best self.
“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”
― Tom Hiddleston
When all else fails and your back is against the wall – grit your teeth and focus on putting one foot in front of the other. And it may not happen tomorrow or the next day, but one day you will look around you to see that the storm has passed and you survived it. So, never give up even when all the cards are stacked against you…Persevere, Persevere, and Persevere.
“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.”
― C. JoyBell C.
Life isn’t about reaching the finish line unscathed. It isn’t about obtaining some unrealistic ideal of perfection. It’s about losing yourself in the everyday chaos of life. It’s about learning and embracing that life is meant to be messy, painful, chaotic and unimaginably beautiful. So stop thinking so much about what life ought to be and spend more time simply living.
“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”
― Paulo Coelho
Life is all about the lens you choose to view it from. You can choose to internalize all the pain and suffering life has to offer and allow yourself to be the victim. Or, you can choose to stand up and fight to find the rainbow in the storm. For you cannot control what life throws at you, but you can control how you react to it.
“There are those who want to get away from all their past, who if they could, would begin all over again. Their life seems one long failure. But you must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to get a future out of it.”
-Phillip Brooks
You can never escape your past. You can’t ignore what happened yesterday and wish it away. Instead you must face your past, learn from it and use it as a stepping stone to create a better future. A better you.
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Yes, life is chaotic. And we often find ourselves scrambling to complete a never ending to do list. It has become so easy to say there isn’t enough time to reach out to a friend or a loved one to simply say I care. But this is nothing more than an excuse. You have to eventually decide to stop making excuses and start making time for the things that matter because tomorrow may never come.