"I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear." 

-Robert Lynd

“When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.” 

~ Joel Osteen

Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary storm.

No matter how raging the billows are today, remind yourself "This too shall pass!

-Thomas Jakes

"We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today." 

-Dale Carnegie

A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home.

-Unknown

‎"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness." 

~ Seneca

"Happiness is not in our circumstances, but in ourselves. It is not something we see, like a rainbow, or feel, like the heat of a fire. Happiness is something we are." 

- John B. Sheerin

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“It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.”

—

Anonymous

"Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use." 

- Earl Nightingale

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"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love." 

— John Steinbeck

‎"How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution...how we can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness" 

- Anne Frank

Next time, ask: What’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. 

Once you start to speak, 

people will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. 

And the world won’t end. 

And the speaking will get easier and easier. 

And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. 

And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don’t miss them. 

And new ones will find you and cherish you. 

And at last you’ll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. 

And that is not speaking.

"What if you woke up today with only the things you thanked god for yesterday?"

"Reality is merely an illusion, 
albeit a very persistent one." 


- Albert Einstein

“The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.”-Ralph Marston

‎"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen." 

- Wayne Dyer

If you desire love in your life, cultivate it yourself, in your own dreams and desires, in the mark you want to make during your brief span here, in the lessons learned, in the smiles as much as the scars. Fill yourself up with love, rather than waiting for someone to do it for you.

*photo by Chrissie White

the opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love.  if you're so consumed by hatred of someone, you might as well be loving them,  because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time. 

-marilyn monroe

*photo by Chrissie White

"No matter what happens in life, 
be good to people. 
Being good to people 
is a wonderful legacy to leave behind." 
— Taylor Swift

"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything"
— Katharine Hepburn (Me: Stories of My Life)

"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
— C.S. Lewis

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." 
— Mother Teresa

"Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile." 

— Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)

"We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." 
— Tom Robbins

"I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved." 
— Shana Abé

"We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love)

"There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life." 
— John Lennon

"We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time. Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart." 
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, somg go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And babve, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up becuase if you give up, you'll never find your soul mate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about." 
— Marilyn Monroe

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." 

— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

"Not all of us can do great things. 

But we can do small things with great love." 

— Mother Teresa

"Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." 

— Elizabeth Gilbert 

(Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

17 most important things to remember in life

1. Never give up on anybody; miracles happen everyday.
2.Be brave even if your not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference. 
3. Think big thoughts, relish small pleasures.

4. Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
5. Never deprive someone of hope, it might be all they have.

6. Strive for excellence, not perfection.

7. Don’t waste time grieving over past mistakes. Learn from them and move on.
8. When someone hugs you let them be the first to let go.

9. Never cut what can be untied.

10. Don’t expect life to be fair.

11. Remember:Success comes to the one that acts first.

12. Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

13. Remember that nobody makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who help you.

14. Never underestimate the power of a kind word or deed.

15. Laugh a lot. A good sense of humor cures almost all of life’s ills.
16. Don’t miss the magic of the moment by focusing on whats to come.

17. Watch for big problems. They disguise big opportunities. 

from here

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This is a true story that had happened in 1892 at Stanford University . Its moral is still relevant today.


 A young, 18-year-old student was struggling to pay his fees. He was an orphan, and not know ing where to turn for money, he came up with a bright idea. A friend and he decided to host a musical concert on campus to raise money for their education.


 They reached out to the great pianist Ignacy J. Paderewski. His manager demanded a guaranteed fee of $2000 for the piano recital. A deal was struck. And the boys began to work to make the concert a success.


The big day arrived. Paderewski performed at Stanford. But unfortunately, they had not managed to sell enough tickets. The total col lection was only $1600. Disappointed, they went to Paderewski and explained their plight. They gave him the entire $1600, plus a cheque for the balance $400. They promised to honour the cheque soonest possible.


"No." said Paderewski. "This is not acceptable." He tore up the cheque, returned the $1600 and told the two boys "Here's the $1600. Please deduct whatever expenses you have incurred. Keep the money you need for your fees. And just give me whatever is left" The boys were surprised, and thanked him profusely.


It was a small act of kindness. But it clearly marked out Paderewski as a great human being. Why should he help two people he did not even know? We all come across situations like these in our lives.

And most of us only think "If I help them, what would hap pen to me?"

The truly great people think, "If I don't help them, what will happen to them?" They don't do it expecting something in return. They do it because they feel it's the right thing to do.

Paderewski later went on to become the Prime Minister of Poland. He was a great leader, but unfortunately when the World War began, Poland was ravaged. There were over 1.5 mil lion people starving in his country, and no money to feed them. Paderewski did not know where to turn for help. He reached out to the US Food and Relief Administration for help. 


The head there was a man called Herbert Hoover - who later went on to become the US President. Hoover agreed to help and quickly shipped tons of food grains to feed the starving Polish people. A calamity was averted.


 Paderewski was relieved. He decided to go across to meet Hoover and person ally thank him. When Paderewski began to thank Hoover for his noble gesture, Hoover quickly interjected and said, "You shouldn't be thanking me Mr. Prime Minister. You may not remember this, but several years ago, you helped two young students go through college in the US . I was one of them."

The world is a wonderful place. What goes around usually comes around.  

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen.

-author unknown

Don’t feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them. 

- Catherine Pulsifer

One of the highest rated comment:

To all the people who keep asking if the boy made it:

You are the boy.  The video is about going for your dreams. Don't be like the dad who just stood on the roof and watched from afar. Don't be like the mom who just pretended what it must be like to live the dream. Go for it. With everything.

Did the boy make it? You are the boy, so you decide. Will you make it?

-Shapiro216

Brick Walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something.

-Inspirational Book Club

Imagination should be used, not to escape from reality, but to create it!

-Inspirational Book Club

don't let one sad story, one sad town, one shallow person or one broken heart keep you locked inside. live out. #lifeisgood -Joshua Paul Kay

“Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls.” 

-Melody Beattie


*photo by the lovely Kitty Gallannaugh

“Challenges are what make life interesting; 

overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”

 -Joshua J. Marine

"You may encounter many defeats, 

but you must not be defeated. 

In fact, 

it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, 

so you can know who you are, 

what you can rise from, 

how you can still come out of it. " 

— Maya Angelou

I've realised that some people love to eat, so only to be fair, here's a post for you, if you're one of them. 

It's a way of spreading goodness too. :)

*photos belong to me

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." 

— Maya Angelou

''Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is 

that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.'' 

-Anais Nin

❝ And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people. And that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing ‘unity. ❞

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

❝ Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. ❞

-Anais Nin

But here’s the deal – life isn’t about boys and the feelings I may or may not have towards that one particular boy. The other day, someone asked me what the answer to life is, and I told him that life isn’t a question – it’s a journey. 

-source

Where there is hope there can be faith, where there is faith miracles can occur.

Live the life you've dreamed.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

-Og Mandino

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity.

-John Green

"As your lover describes you, so you are." 

— Jeanette Winterson

*photo belongs to me

"It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment." 

— Jeanette Winterson