Tag: Dream

Believe in Yourself

“I didn’t know I had it in me. There’s more to all of us than we realize. Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think. We’re capable of so much more than we allow ourselves to believe.”

― Queen Latifah

        Don’t sell yourself short. You are capable of much more than you allow yourself to believe. It is so easy to limit ourselves and simply say that’s impossible or is some silly pipe dream. But the reality is that if you allow yourself to try and just go for the “impossible dream,” you may discover that what you once thought to be an insurmountable mountain was nothing but a grain of sand.

Live Your Potential

“I want to live my life to its fullest potential. I want to embrace my own purpose, however large or small it may be. I want to find my own Nehru moments and take positive steps toward becoming the person I am meant to be. The journey will undoubtedly be a winding one, filled with surprises and setbacks as well as gifts. But I’m ready to embrace it fully, wherever it may take me.”

― Mallika Chopra, Living with Intent: My Somewhat Messy Journey to Purpose, Peace, and Joy

         To truly live means to give your all and hold nothing back. It means figuring out who you are and what your purpose is. It means not settling into a mediocre existence when you were destined for an extraordinary life. And the incredible thing is that what direction your life takes is up to you. You have the choice to simply exist or to truly embrace life and learn what it means to live.

Reach for the Stars

“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 and Action

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.

Never Stop Dreaming

“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.

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.

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.

Go For It

“If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure. ”

― Philip Pullman, Clockwork

         No matter what you go after in life, there is good and bad to go along with it. And with every goal you seek, you have to be willing to make sacrifices and take risks. Nothing worth something in this life comes easy…no, you have to work for it.

Wish Carefully

“Don’t wish it was easier wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom”

― Jim Rohn

       Life isn’t meant to be easy. You must go out and seek the answers to your most burning questions. And along the way, you will learn that life provides you with the necessary tools and lessons so that you can solve your own problems.

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.