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Will you continue to replay the memories of yesterday, or will you meet the moment and make the most of what is in front of you now?
You are exactly where you need to be. This is the perfect day to start your life again.
When you do not know what is next, you enter the realm of infinite potential.
Happiness is not having the best of everything, but the ability to make the best of anything. Happiness is knowing you are doing what you can with what you were given. Happiness is not something that comes to you when every problem is solved and all things are perfectly in place, but in the shining silver linings that remind us the light of day is always there, if you slow down enough to notice.
Self-protection is learning how to take a pause between what you feel and how you react. When there is no awareness between what you perceive and the way that you respond, anything can control you. Practice the pause. Widen the space between what you sense and what you do about it. Decide what’s worth your energy, because what you engage with is what you empower.
You cannot desire what you do not already contain. Desire is a projection outward that is proportionate to potential inward.
You’re not failing because you’re not motivated. You’re not supposed to get far on a path that was never yours to walk.
The journey is not how you place down what’s weighing on you, but how you learn to stop picking it up.
That the very moment that you honor where you are with complete surrender, you open to the next experience life wants to offer.
QOTC
When you ask for a big life, you cannot keep fighting for a smaller one to stay.
Maybe you should learn to trust in what passes you by so you’ll begin to trust in what lands right in front of you. Maybe you should trust that in what isn’t working, because it might be trying to guide you to what will.
What is meant for you will arrive in your life and it will remain in your life.
Other people will see you the way they intend to.
to decide what you want to act on and what you want to put back out into the world, regardless of what the world has put you through.
Finding yourself also requires losing who you once thought yourself to be.
That is the true test of what is right—not what instantly falls into place, but what entwines its roots with yours, and allows you to most fully blossom.
Not what shows up instantly and unexpectedly, but what stays,
what remains throug...
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What you are longing to bring into the world is also what the world is longing for you to bring it.
Eventually, you will have to stop pouring yourself into the things that will give nothing back, that take without any intent to give.
You will have to stop trying to make yourself fit into places you are no longer meant to be.
Sometimes, the quiet whispers are the most accurate ones.
You cannot imagine how deep and how wide your capacity really is unless it’s been tested, until you’ve been moved beyond where you thought your limits were, and have had to redefine them. In this, you find new energy.
Give yourself the time you need to regulate to your new normal, let yourself witness with each passing day that it is once again safe to exhale, to step outside your comfort zone, to trust in the unknown.
You will have to learn how to outgrow some things you love. You will have to learn that some things are right for a time, but not forever.
You will
have to learn that if you are not growing, you are not really living.
You will have to learn how to let go of some things that are still beautiful, because you know that they are not quite right, because yo...
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You will have to learn that the very act of letting go is not a failure, but a signal of completion: one of the truest signs that you are evolving as a human being.
If you do not know what to do next, it usually isn’t because your next step is far out in the distance, but rather right in front of your feet.
You are being called to rebuild yourself at this exact moment.
It’s time to learn how to use what you already have, and be as you really are.
It is persistent because you need it, even if you don’t want it.
The longer we avoid looking honestly at ourselves, the louder our inner worlds will become.
Your biggest feelings are not always the most accurate ones.
On the days when it hurts too much to dream, to hope, to think of anything beyond the line of sight ahead of you—just rest.
Until you confront the shadow of your own self-disapproval, you will always be gazing out at the world in fear of who might not love you completely, who might draw your awareness to the part of you that already believes you are unworthy of being appreciated, of being fully and truly known.
You become who you really are when you start choosing the things that you actually find meaningful and worthwhile.
Letting go is not meant to be easy; it is not supposed to be simple to unwind your soul from the things that have captured your mind, your time, and your life for so long.
It is easy to tell how you are doing in life. When you go outside, how beautiful is the flower? That is how you know.
Don’t get so used to chaos that peace feels like something’s wrong.
Nobody has everything,
but everyone has something—focus on y...
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When you feel a connection waning, that is when you must remind yourself not to steer another human being’s destiny.
When you know who you are becoming, it is a lot easier to make peace with who you’ve been.
The fire can only burn what is not meant to be.
It is okay to be intentional about who holds your most vulnerable pieces.
If you feel like you need to be where you are for a little while longer, you are probably right.
Sometimes, the only way to break down those walls is piece by piece.
Do not allow your comfort zone to become your cage.
