It is Difficult to Be What We Are Not

Awareness is something that is very important. And you say that it looks impossible to become what we really are, to be authentic, to be ourselves again. But I will tell you that it is much more difficult to try to be what we are not.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Honesty

Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games, and verbal superficiality. As honesty and real integrity characterize our lives, there will be no need to manipulate others.

Chuck Swindoll

Become An Inspiration

Let your life mean something. Become an inspiration to others so that they may try to do more and to become more than they are today.

Be Compassionate / Kind.

Always look out for opportunities where you can help others. Don’t get caught up in your own space –– instead, look outwards and see if there’s anything you can do for others. Even the simplest things, like helping someone carry his/her belongings, is very much appreciated by others.

Loving Thoughts

I strengthen people by sending them loving thoughts.

Reverse Affirmations

Usually when people use affirmations they think in this pattern : I am powerful. But under the reverse affirmations technique people would think : you find me powerful. The reason behind this is that, when you say to yourself that you are powerful, your brain immediately rejects it refusing to believe in it. But when you change your thinking to : People find me powerful, you will start believing in it over a period of time. And then you will enjoy the benefits that this kind of affirmation showers on you.

Love Someone

You truly love someone when you can feel every joy, sadness, and pain of the other as if they were your own.

Release Grief

Some are able to release grief far more quickly than others. However long it takes, it is always the re-connection with the power of the heart that moves you past grief. When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality.


Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart

Setting An Example

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

Albert Einstein

You Are a Child of . . .

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
 
Marianne Williamson

Effectively Communicate

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

Anthony Robbins

Confront Our Problems

We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.


Kyle Maynard

Love Hurts

Everyone says love hurts, but that isn't true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.

Judge and Jury

Its fine to have an opinion but quite the other to take it upon yourself to be judge and jury. That role is reserved for the Higher Power and that’s not you.

Kaoru

The Advice of People

Don't base your decisions on the advice of people who don't have to deal with the results.

A True Friend

A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strengths; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.

William Arthur Ward

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Listen to Your Heart

It's easier to listen to your heart because its usually what you want to do vs what you should do.

Stop Thinking

Stop thinking about the past, and don’t worry too much about what’s going to happen in the future. Your presence is a present, so live for today, and appreciate everyone and everything you have. Stop thinking about what you don’t have, what you wish you had, who walked out of your life, and whatever else that falls in that category. Think about what you have, who you have in your life, and how fortunate you are.


Junethea Crystal Centeno

Pushing Through Discomfort

One of the most difficult parts of reaching your goals or making positive change is pushing through discomfort.

A Period of Recovery

People think that they're being devoured by stress, but I always ask them where they got the strength they have now. Has it been from the storms, the challenges——the stress? Or from the good times, the great parties? In every case, people say that what's pushed them the most has helped them the most. Stress pushes us to expend energy emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Then comes a period of recovery and healing——and growth.


Tony Schwartz

Never Mind What Others Do

Never mind what others do. Do better than yourself, break your own records everyday and pray to god for a better tomorrow success will chase you.

In Your Own Skin

If you're like many of us, you've spent years trying to feel comfortable in your own skin and to figure out what to do with your life. This is your most important purpose: to fully move into the power of your authentic self and to discover how to put that power to work in the world. There's a reason why you are here and a special way to accomplish your role in the world. But so much of us feel a lack of clarity around all this. We feel out of touch with our true nature and aren't sure why.

Jean Haner

Spirituality Exists Whenever...

Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is "spiritual" when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life.


Robert Fuller

Judge the Character of Others

You can easily judge the character of others by how

they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.

Malcolm Forbes

Open and Grateful Heart

“Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment,

grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance -

it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready

to receive it with an open and grateful heart.”

~Sarah Ban Breathnach~

Rise from the Ashes

To rise from the ashes:

learn from failure and bounce back stronger.
Strong enough to remain focused on success, despite setbacks.
Handle setbacks by seeing them for what they are;
temporary setbacks, not the end of the world!

Brahma Kumaris, Mt Abu.

Change Your Thoughts and YOU Change Your World

It Goes On

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life — It goes on.

—Robert Frost

The Universe and Human Stupidity

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Albert Einstein

Your Life as a Champion

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.


Muhammad Ali

I Have Learned...

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers. – Kahil Gibran

We Fear We Will Not Find Love

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.


Richard Bach

Everybody needs positive messages, and no living creature possessing a personality can escape this fact any more than a sentient being living in a human body can deny that body's need for physical food.


Paul Richards

How Beautiful That You Really Are

Many of us don't really know how beautiful that we really are. In the society we live in we tend to think of how beautiful we are as being rated by how "hot" we may look on the outside, instead of trying to be as beautiful of a soul as possible. Remember that looks may last for a while, but they don't last forever, and the only true beauty that lasts forever is the beauty of the person that you are on the inside. Be confident in who you are, because the fact that who you are at heart is fascinating in itself.

Make a Pact with Yourself

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn't what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be You...Be Free...Share.

the Passionate Sense of Potential

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

Loving Yourself

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

All Truths

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

Be Slowly Born

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4^th of July to all on this day. Enjoy all the awe-inspiring festivities the light up the night’s sky. With each thunderous burst, we are reminded of our freedom.

Meet the Love of Your Life

A Determined Soul

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

I'm not frightened

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

Angelina Jolie

Appreciate what you have, before time teaches you to appreciate what you had.

Judge or Criticize

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

You Can Have Anything

You can have anything you want if you will give up the belief that you can't have it.

Love is Just a Word

Love is just a word until you and that someone who comes along give it meaning.

Livia Nemeth