Tag: Believe

This Life

“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.

Simply Be

“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.

Don’t Play The Victim

“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.

You Have Enough Time

“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.

Be Your Own Superhero

“Some people need a superhero to save them, but I am my own superhero. All I need is myself, my strengths and the fiery passions in my heart to overcome the obstacles in my life.”

― Imania Margria

       Be your own superhero. Rely on no one else to save you, to bring you happiness, to fulfill you. You alone possess all the tools you need to enjoy a life full of limitless possibilities.

Overcome Discouragement

“No matter what it is that you are going through at this very moment, I encourage you to choose perseverance over discouragement. If you hang in strong long enough, sooner or later, this experience would become a thing of the past like the obstacles you defeated in the past.”

― Edmond Mbiaka

          Life can be oh so very hard…and what often makes it even harder is the feeling of defeat and discouragement when you try your hardest only to come up short. But it is at these times when you’re ready to throw in the towel that you must find the strength to hold on for just a little longer, for that is the moment the tide will change.

Create Your Masterpiece

“If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?”
― Miguel Ruiz

          Your life is truly a blank canvas. Each day you create new aspects of yourself. So, if you are unhappy with any aspect of yourself or your life, grab the paint brush and start anew. Pick new colors and try different brushstrokes. Choose to settle for nothing less than a masterpiece.

Follow Your Own Compass

“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true destiny does not reside within the blinkered outlook of the naysayers and the doom prophets. Judge not by their words, but accept advice based on the evidence of actual results. Do not be surprised should you find a complete absence of anything mystical or miraculous in the manifested reality of those who are so eager to advise you. Friends and family who suffer the lack of abundance, joy, love, fulfillment and prosperity in their own lives really have no business imposing their self-limiting beliefs on your reality experience.”

― Anthon St. Maarten

          You are the master of your fate. No one else has the power to take your dreams and hopes from you unless you give them the power. So, stop worrying about others opinions and follow your own compass. Those who are true will be there to encourage and support you and those who are the naysayers-let go of them for they are nothing more than deadweight slowing you down from fulfilling your destiny.

Change Your Luck

“You can start to change your luck today. Begin believing that you can have what you desire and superior things will arrive.”
― Steve Backley

         I believe firmly in the law of attraction. If you put out positive energy, you will receive positive energy in return. Likewise, if you radiate negative energy, you will draw negative energy to yourself. So to, if you desire something in life, you must first believe it’s possible. Don’t have low expectations. Because when you truly believe something can happen, you open yourself to a life full of limitless possibilities.

Face Each Challenge

“No one ever said your life would be easy. The nature of being human makes life for all of us a challenge. The most important thing to consider here is this. Your life is only as challenging as you think it is. Think of challenge as a teacher and yourself the student. It’s up to you to figure out what the lesson is to be learned. To learn that lesson and build the strength and courage to face other challenges….”

― James A. Murphy

         Life is only as hard as you make it. If you freak out about every little bump in the road, then every challenge you face becomes an insurmountable mountain. But if you calmly and courageous face each storm that comes your way, you not only fortify your strength to endure but you allow yourself to grow…which is the whole point of life.