âThereâs no such thing as what you âshouldâ be doing with your life.â âLori Deschene
How often have you thought about what success means to you?
If youâre anything like my younger self, that would be almost never. Itâs not …
âTo be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.â ~EE Cummings
For …
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.” ~Henry Ward Beecher
Retirement. A word that fills people with both excitement and fear.
On the one hand, weâre …
âThe difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.â ~Jimmy Johnson
âWrite about what we did today,â my daughter said. She knows I often write once she is asleep.
Dully I thought, âWhat we did today wasnât that exciting.â …
When I was growing up, my parents never spoke to me about what I âdeserved.â They spoke to me a lot about what was âexpected.â They were very clear about that.
They expected me to be tough, hard-working, well-read, and …
âRemember how far you’ve come, not how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.” ~Rick Warren
Weâre always talking about how we should live in …
âWaiting is not mere empty hoping. It has the inner certainty of reaching the goal.â ~I ChingÂ
Waiting has a bad rap in modern Western society. Itâs not surprising that I had to look to an ancient Chinese text (the …
âDeath is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.â ~Norman Cousins
Recently, my grandfather passed away. His departure was difficult for me but it has also left me with something …
âYour time is limited, so donât waste it living someone elseâs life.â – Steve Jobs
When we come to this world, we know nothing. We are all products of the societies that raised us and shaped our belief system with …
âMindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.â ~Arnaud Desjardins
No human being lives without experiencing the duality of life.
Good and bad. Love …
With a lift of his chin and a bit of a grin,
Without any doubting or quiddit,
He started to sing as tackled the thing
That couldnât be done and he did it.
âEdgar Guest
Iâve always believed in …
âWisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.â ~Rasheed Ogunlaru
Recently a friend told me a story about taking her seven-year-old to the circus. It was a wonderful mother-daughter outing. Just the two of them, no pesky …
âWe have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb.â ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
From an early age, most of us …
âStop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.â ~Terry Josephson
When I was in my early twenties I was lucky enough to spend about a year living just a few blocks from the beach in …
âMany people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.â ~Thich Nhat HanhÂ
“Who are you? No, really. Who are you?”
I stood at my bathroom mirror, towel twisted around my head, inspecting my own reflection. A …
âSometimes what youâre most afraid of doing is the very thing that will set you free.â ~Robert Tew
In 2014, I was drowning in unhappiness. I had moved to Palestine five years earlier, later met my husband, and decided to …
âThe secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.â ~Paulo Coelho
We’re bombarded by images of people living apparently perfect lives. They suffer no bereavements or breakups or losses or failures. They look …
“The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” ~Unknown
As we stood holding hands under that great oak tree, I had never felt more surrounded by love. It was simultaneously the most wonderful and haziest moment of my whole …
âThe spiritual path is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don’t know it.â ~Marianne Williamson
I remember it as if it happened yesterday. I woke up in the middle …
âMost of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.â ~Rick Aster
Iâm standing in my art studio. My palette is loaded with paint. My canvas has …
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