Tag: Believe

Create Your Masterpiece

“Life’s kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is, is a blur. And you could continue living your life thinking that all it is, is just a blur. But if you really look at it, really see it, focus on it, and use your imagination, life can become so much more. The painting could be of the sea, the sky, people,buildings, a butterfly on a flower, or anything except the blur you were once convinced it was.”

― Cecelia Ahern

          Life is all about the lens you choose to view it from. One of my favorite phrases because it rings so true and deserves to be repeated many times. Life, your life, is a blank canvas waiting for you to create a masterpiece. The potential and tools are all there at your disposal and you have but to pick up the brush and start creating.

Stop Searching

“Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself.”

― Pablo

           One of the most important lessons you will learn in life is that what you may spend a lifetime searching for is inside of you. That happiness and peace you so desperately seek can only be found from within. And the sooner you recognize this, the closer you will come to obtaining the life you crave.

Push Yourself

“Push yourself to do more and to experience more. Harness your energy to start expanding your dreams. Yes, expand your dreams. Don’t accept a life of mediocrity when you hold such infinite potential within the fortress of your mind. Dare to tap into your greatness.”

― Robin S. Sharma

         Within each person is the potential for greatness…the potential to do good things. You must only believe in yourself and allow yourself to dream without limits. Free your mind and you will free your soul from the chains restraining you from reaching for the stars.

Destiny

“You can’t hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny’s what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you. And if it throws more than you’d like, more than you think you can handle? Well then you just have to find the heroism within yourself and play out the hand you’ve been dealt. The universe never sets a challenge that can’t be met. You just need to believe in yourself in order to find the strength to face it.”

― Darren Shan

           No one else can fight your battles for you. And in life, you will be dealt many hands that you and only you must play. Sometimes it’s a crappy hand, but you must not be defeated and must always keep pushing on. So, no matter what life may throw at you, never give in and keep fighting until you take your last breath.

Never Say “I Can’t”

“Never say ‘I can’t.’ ‘I can’t’ is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say ‘I will’ instead.”

― Heather Vogel Frederick

         The only person who has the power to place limits on your life is you. It is so easy to sell yourself short and tell yourself that you can’t do something or that the odds of success are so low so why bother. But it is these negative, self-defeating thoughts that prevent you from breaking through barriers. So instead choose to believe that anything is possible and you never know how high you can climb until you try.

Be Authentic

“What it means to be authentic:
– to be more concerned with truth than opinions
– to be sincere and not pretend
– to be free from hypocrisy: “walk your talk”
– to know who you are and to be that person
– to not fear others seeing your vulnerabilities
– being confident to walk away from situations where you can’t be yourself
– being awake to your own feelings
– being free from others’ opinions of you
– accepting and loving yourself”

― Sue Fitzmaurice

        Strive to always be your authentic self. Be confident in who you are regardless of what others may say. Be willing to stand up for what you believe and never waver from your convictions. Simply put, live your truth and the rest will fall in place.

Commit Yourself

“I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life’s greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.”

― Anthony Robbins

          Commitment is key to a meaningful life. No matter what your goals are, commit fully without any reservation. For the road to achieving anything good in this life requires hard work, patience and persistence.

Ride the Waves

“There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.”

― Gena Showalter

         Life isn’t about playing it safe. It’s not about doing what is expected of you or of conforming to what society dictates. It’s about figuring out what your path is and following it. It’s about learning what your truth is and living it.

Never Too Late

“Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.”

― Portia de Rossi

        Don’t give up because one or several doors close. Don’t give up when the floodgates swing wide open and the currents threaten to take you. No, it is when your back is up against the wall that you swing the hardest. For it is never too late to come from behind to win the game . . . and it is never too late to change the course of your life.

Dance in the Rain

“When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.”

― Joan F. Marques

        Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass; rather, it’s learning to find joy even in tough times. For you may find yourself missing out on life by trying to wait for clear skies that may never come. So, no matter what you are going through, try to find something to smile about.