Inspiration for the Mind, Body & Soul
A BLOG DEVOTED TO SHARING POSITIVE AND ENCOURAGING MESSAGES FOR THE HUNGRY HEART
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
– Harriet Tubman
Never let anyone or anything prevent you from pursuing your dreams with an unbridled passion. For you are strong enough and courageous enough to achieve the impossible. The only person preventing you from chasing the stars is you. So, choose to believe in yourself and go after what you want most in this life.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
– Joel A. Barker
All change begins with a dream and vision of what could be. However, having a dream is only the beginning and you must take active steps to make your dream a reality. So never forget that to effect real change you must first have a vision for the future and then you must take action to bring your vision to life.
“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour
if you choose.”
― Arnold Bennett
At any moment, you have the power to say this isn’t how my story will end. You and you alone can decide right now to change the narrative. For the next hour or day of your life has yet to happen. So, don’t waste another second of your life being stuck or unhappy. Embrace the power of change.
“If you really believe in what you’re doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.”
― Laurie Notaro
There is always more than one path to a destination. And in life, you will learn that you may have to change directions several times before reaching your destination. Sometimes the path you travel may be smooth, while at other times it may be extremely rough. The key is to never give up. Just work hard and try a new direction when one route is blocked. And most importantly, have faith for you will find your way.
“Don’t be discouraged if people don’t see your vision, your harvest. All they see from their perspective is that you’re watering a whole lot of dirt. They don’t SEE what seeds you’ve been planting with blood, sweat, tears and lack of sleep. Make sure you don’t abandon or neglect it because “they” don’t see it. You have to KNOW and believe for yourself. They don’t see the roots and what’s budding under the dirt. But it’s okay, because it’s NOT meant for them to see it. While you wait, MASTER it. You continue to do YOUR work and have unwavering faith! Remember why you started planting in the first place. Your harvest WILL come!”
― Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir
Remember to always follow your path and chase your dreams. No two paths are the same, and you must have faith and conviction that you are going in the right direction. Don’t let others lack of vision detour or sidetrack you from continuing along the road that you, and you alone, are meant to travel. Be your own support and follow your own compass.
“Some choose to dream with a safety net. I dream with nothing to catch me, that way if I fall nothing can stop me from rising back up.”
― Evelyn Shepherd
Never stop dreaming and believing you can accomplish the impossible. Sometimes you will succeed along the journey and sometimes you may stumble. The key is to keep standing back up each time you fall. And no matter what, never give up.
“Do you want to make progress? If so, then take each problem not as a challenging rival, but as an encouraging friend of yours, who is helping you to arrive at your ultimate destination.”
― Sri Chinmoy, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey
In order to move forward, you must embrace each obstacle and roadblock as a stepping stone to grow, learn, and overcome. You are only ever as stuck as you allow yourself to be.
“Faith, is the road that goes straight past the gravel, and cloud-mesh dirt into a mirage, where still you believe to go straight, and when you finally catch up with it, it ends at a lake where you stretch your eyes across, but unable to glimpse the other side- so you jump in and swim, gliding each stroke with tiredness and swallow of water, you reach the end, put a hand out and pull yourself up on concrete, where the same road continues straight into another blue-white blur.”
― Anthony Liccione
In this life, you must not lose faith in yourself and in the journey. No matter how hard it gets, no matter how tired you are, you must continue to believe that everything will work out. Have faith in something bigger than yourself. Keep trudging along your path even though you cannot see its end and have faith that you’ll end up where you’re meant to be.
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
In this life, you have the amazing ability to choose what kind person you want to be…what kind of life you desire. Each of us is born with a blank canvas and it is up to you to create a masterpiece or a tragic comedy. The decision and power is yours alone.
“Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.”
― Ashly Lorenzana
Be confident in who you are, and never let anyone or anything force you to compromise your values. This is often the hardest lesson of life but is the key to living a life full of happiness and integrity. For if there is one rule to govern your life by, it would simply be to live your truth each and every day.