“If you live every day, with the capacity to stretch yourself past limitation…you will find boundless opportunity is all the places that once scared you.”
― Nikki Rowe
Tag: choices
The Coming of Change
“Sometimes the slightest things change the direction of our lives, the merest breath of circumstance, a random moment …lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.”
– Bryce Courtney
Writing changes lives.
Pick Your Colors
“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor and your picture begins to lighten up.” – Allen Klein
We choose to be positive and to pursue good. Life is not easy and for that there will always be unfavorable situations lurking behind every corner. It will sneak up on you, will smack you in the face, and will step on your toes.
However, you can choose to paint your life with positivity and encouragement. You can choose to laugh and to smile and to extend your hands to those who need it. You can choose to help others and to offer your services or you can choose to sit back and whine about what you should have done. Complaining as you drown in the washing of black and gray shades. This weekend, pick your colors.The choice is always yours
Comfortable on the Floor
Are you comfortable on the floor? Or have you forgotten that we create the doors that we walk through?
In Minds Reach
For strength you must first know your weaknesses. And you must know them more than anyone else. Only then can you train your mind to think differently, and to improve on those weaknesses. To train is to continually practice something over a period of time. So this is not a one day affair to which you will be granted the fruits of this one night stand of sorts. You will not burst through with instant gratification of having remained still when the world is moving too fast. When the buildings and the trees and the people all crumble around you, persistence will not lay it’s hand on your chest, does not care for the thrashing hailstones crashing onto the ground. Do not court with strength. It is not something that falls off of trees. Do not leave it lingering on the edges of your breaths like when lips beg to be suckled, and swallowed whole by the thought of love; a drop of oil waiting modestly in the hallowed hallways of her breast. Do not fool yourself, for strength has never happened upon us the way that romanticized love does inside the pages of Hollywood. But to wake up and know that you are beauty made manifest; to know that you’ve got diamonds in-between your toes and underneath your fingernails; that you are princess and prince to a wealth of possibilities all in reach of your mind, this is a daily striving. A striving so beyond the flesh that you can taste it in your dreams and dance with it in your thoughts. It is tangible and intangible, symbolic, and literal, physical, and mental all wrapped up in one great trial of bewildered circumstance; waiting for the moment where it may envelop you with its glory. All neatly wrapped into a beautiful face too precious to ignore, and yet too glowing to stare into. Indeed, strength awaits you.
Stand
“Every time you can find the strength to get back up, you render failure powerless.”
Living on Purpose
“I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we’re all teachers – if we’re willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door.” – Maria Gibbs
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