Monday, June 13, 2011
Love. Hope. Faith. Peace.
As I lay in bed awake and sleepless as the sun begins to rise, peaking through the dusty white shades slowly filling the room with light, I feel my mind racing. All the possibilities of what my future holds run in circles through my head. Thats the best part isn't it though, that we never know what exactly is going to happen? For me, thats what has sent my mind on a trip. I have come face to face with the unknown and am not getting along with this unfamiliarity very well. I want to do so many things in my life, from joining the Peace Corps to getting married and having a family of my own on top of finishing school and being successful in my workplace. But, I mainly want to find myself. I feel that the only way to do this is to experience and explore the world around me. On my journey to fully appreciating this earth I will find myself. Once I set out on this path I will accomplish my dreams and goals; I will help as many people as I can in anyway possible. I will make a difference. I will be the change. I will live my life and let friends and a true love complete me like a puzzle.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
When it feels like the end, just know, its only the beginning.
01.
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue notconcerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men-go freely with powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and with the mothers or families-re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.
02.
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they are right, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
03.
If you're lucky enough to find people that can make you feel like the best thing in the whole wide world, don't be dumb enough to take it for granted. Stick with them, fight for them, and never let them go.
04.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
05.
Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, and let go of what you cannot change. Kiss slowly, love deeply, forgive quickly, and have no regrets. Life's too short to be anything but happy.
06.
Someday someone is going to look at you with a light in their eyes you've never seen, they'll look at you like you're everything they've been looking for their entire lives. Wait for it.
07.
We're all a little weird, and when we find those people whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually weirdness and call them our best friends.
08.
Oh, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.
09.
My heart, it feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me anymore. It belongs to you. And if you wanted it, I’d wish for nothing in exchange - no gifts. No goods. No demonstrations of devotion. Nothing but knowing you loved me too. Just your heart, in exchange for mine.
10.
Love is the only thing that matters in life, the only thing. Fall in love with as many things as possible.
11.
The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything.
12.
Stop thinking. Start living.
13.
But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.
14.
You pulled me back into your arms, hugged me for longer and told me you didn't want me to go; I live for these moments.
15.
I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that's all they do. They don't pull away. They don't look at your face. They don't try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.
16.
Someday, someone will show you exactly why it never worked out with anyone else.
17.
Love is passion. Obsession. Someone you can’t live without. Someone you fall head over heels for. Find someone you can love like crazy, and will love you the same way back. Listen to your heart. No sense in life without falling deeply in love, you haven’t lived a life at all. You have to try, because if you haven’t tried, then you haven’t lived.
18.
Passion is knowing what you want and not stopping until you get it.
19.
Spread love. Be kind. Think positive. Enjoy life.
20.
The best thing you can do is to find the person who loves you for exactly who you are.
21.
The world is smaller than you think, and the people on it are more beautiful than you think.
22.
Never get tired of doing little things for others.. For sometimes those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts.
23.
I've finally come to realize that we are all the same, if there's nothing left to lose then there's everything to gain.
24.
So don't you worry your pretty little mind, people throw rocks at things that shine. And life makes love hard. The stakes are high, the water is rough, but this love is ours.
25.
Worrying is a waste of time. It doesn't change anything, it just messes with your mind and steals your happiness.
26.
What makes life worth living is knowing that one day you’ll wake up and find the person that makes you happier than anything in the whole world. So don’t ever lose hope and give up, everything turns out okay and the good guy always wins.
27.
Anyone can make you happy by doing something special, but only someone special can make you happy without doing anything.
28.
To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there. The hardest situation to stay happy in, I think, is when you're trying to find love, and yourself at the same time. It just doesn't seem to fit well. So I believe that happiness is being able to wake up and just know that this is what you wanted, and not what somebody else wanted.
29.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
( John Lennon - Imagine )
30.
"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
31.
"As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself... Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility."
32.
"Keep your friends close — and your rivals even closer."
33.
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent." -Gandhi
34.
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." -Gandhi
35.
"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." -Bob Marley
36.
"The best things in life are unseen, thats why we close our eyes when we kiss, laugh, and dream."
37.
This is your life. Do what you love, and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit. If you don't have enough time, stop watching tv. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting for you when you start doing things you love. Stop over analyzing, all emotions are beautiful. When you eat, appreciate every last bite. Life is simple. Open your mind, are and heart to new things and people, we are united in our differences. Ask the next person you see what their passion is, and share your inspiring dream with them. Travel often. Getting lost will help you find yourself. Some opportunities only come once, seize them. Life is about the people you meet, and the things you create with them so go out and start creating. Life is short. Live your dream, and wear your passion.
38.
Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.
"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love." -Gandhi
40.
"Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
41.
"I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."
42.
"L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
The love that moves the sun and the other stars."
43.
"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions."
44.
"I think I deserve something beautiful."
"Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots."
46.
"We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace."
47.
"Let your conscience be your guide."
48.
"Life's metaphors are God's instructions."
"The resting place of the mind is the heart."
50.
Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.
Make a list of all the things you want to do before you die, share it with someone you love, and live your life with peace and love, and you will be happy... <3
xoxo.
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