“Do not let anyone treat you as if you are unimportant because you are young. Instead, be an example…with you words, your actions, your love, your faith, and your pure life.” 1 Timothy 4:12

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“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.” – Albert Einstein

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“The only way to achieve the impossible is to think that it is possible.” ~ Charles Kingsleigh, Alice in Wonderland.

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“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”

—Nicholas Sparks2 days ago

You see things
You keep quiet about them
And you understand 6 days ago

“The best kind of people are the ones that come into your life, and make you see the sun where you once saw clouds. The people that believe in you so much, you start to believe in you too. The people that love you, simply for being you. The once in a lifetime kind of people.” 1 week ago

Yet better thus, and known to be contemned,
Than still contemned and flattered. To be worst,
The lowest and most dejected thing of fortune
Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear.
The lamentable change is from the best;
The worst returns to laughter. Welcome, then,
Thou unsubstantial air that I embrace!
The wretch that thou hast blown unto the worst
Owes nothing to thy blasts. 1 week ago

I received this postcard from Dorothea from Germany that says this and she nicely translated it for me…
“The only food you can never get enough of is the kiss.”

She also added on the postcard, “To me it sounds like a promise that when we will be old, we will still love and enjoy love’s pleasures.” I feel like she captured the whole meaning of the quote and the photo together.

“Die einzige Speise, deren man nicht satt werden kann, ist der Kuss.” – Christian Dietrich Grabbe 2 weeks ago

A lot of people feel like they’re victims in life, and they’ll often point to past events, perhaps growing up with an abusive parent or in a dysfunctional family. Most psychologists believe that about 85 percent of families are dysfunctional, so all of a sudden you’re not so unique.

My parents were alcoholics. My dad abused me. My mother divorced him when I was six…I mean, that’s almost everybody’s story in some form or not. The real question is, what are you going to do now? What do you choose now?

Because you can either keep focusing on that, or you can focus on what you want. And when people start focusing on what they want, what they don’t want falls away, and what they want expands, and the other part disappears.

—Jack Canfield2 weeks ago

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 frightens us most.
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. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won’t feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others 3 weeks ago

I watched the movie when I was 18, and the quote is still very powerful.
Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it’s very important that you do it. Because nobody else will. Like when someone comes into your life and half of you says you’re nowhere near ready, but the other half says: make her yours forever. 3 weeks ago

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“Opinions are like the lint and spare change that People pull out of their pockets and show their friends.”

-John Rzenik 3 weeks ago

“Myth is gossip grown old.”

-Stanislaw Lee 3 weeks ago

“No one is himself…”

-Paul Bowles 3 weeks ago

“He stole my left ear. I took his right eye. He concealed fourteen of my teeth. I sewed up his lips. He stewed my behind. I turned his heart inside-out. He ate my liver. I drank his blood. War!”

-Elias Canetti 3 weeks ago

“You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.”
-H. L. Mencken 1 month ago

“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
-Scorates 1 month ago

“In your day, surround yourself with people who love you, motivate you, encourage you and just make you feel good about being you.”

—Brigette Nicole2 months ago

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