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Love slowly, quietly, and patiently waits for hate to simply burn out.
Groaning, we exhale, rasping into the icy air so that we know we have exhaled (feel free to curse as you do so—I found it helped me).
The only thing that matters in life is love.
Love: That’s what lasts. That’s what wins. Always.
The only thing we have control over in our lives is our perception of things,
Hope is what everyone needs to exist in a state of joy and forward motion.
Remember this: “It” only has value if you give it value (the variable “it” is wide open).
If the number one directive in our lives was to look for and find joy, I wonder what our lives would look like.
(You might want to have that stiff drink for the next bit.)
An image of him wandering down aisle 31 of a Home Depot, looking for the right screwdriver, flashed across my brain. Other things flashed, too, words mostly, like “this motherfucker!” and “ain’t no fucking way!”
Ha, this motherfucker …
He may as well just slide that screwdriver up my nose to my frontal lobe and scramble my brain, so I have no memory of him and this nightmare.
hope I live a long time, but however long I have, that life is going to be a much simpler one, filled with love and honor and humility and gratitude.
but when you conspire with the positive energy around you, you tend to attract more positive energy, and pretty much anything is possible. But first, you have to put yourself into positions that make you uncomfortable so you can grow, doing stuff that you’re not necessarily good at.
No matter how prepared you are, if you check all the boxes in a crisis, you still need help.
The only thing I can control in my life is my perspective. What I’ve come to understand is that life is simply my next step, my next breath. Perhaps some readers might think that’s too simple a philosophy, but I think life is that simple after all.
