Love Yourself

Be good to your heart. Have faith on your soul. Embrace the flaws and acknowledge your perfections. Take pride in the victories but before that accept your defeats. Admire the scars and preserve the memories.
But most of all, be brave to be You. Don’t be afraid to face the world alone. Don’t keep yourself away from being your best friend. Don’t let loneliness tell you that you are alone as long as your heart beats ricochets signifying a life far more precious than any you have ever befriended.
Because when the storms come and the only sun is swallowed to an abysmal darkness, it is the fire within you that will light up the whole world.

So remember, you are Everything. You are Wonderful. You are Power. You’re a Warrior and you will soar through it all, every-freaking-time!

 

One day it will make sense

And then one day it all makes sense…the times where there was doubt, the times of uncertainty…the times of pain. Because one day you figure it out, what makes you tick, what drives you and what you truly want from life. And then you let go of all that holds you back. You stop giving the power to others and make a decision. That now is your time.

One day it all makes sense and you commit to live the life you deserve!

Life: Sugar and Salt

Everything has a reason of happening and a purpose. Sometimes we question too much and miss the whole point. Things might seem harsh at some times, but I guess sometimes we deserve it, for it to better us. Taking an example of salt and sugar, salt might be sour/bitter to your tongue when taken raw with nothing else. But the same salt added to something else, it gives it taste and it brings out the sweetness. Same with life, we might be having a salt experience and we think we’re unlucky, little do we know that the same experience makes us better. Just hanging on, and we’re on a different level altogether.

Sugar, on the other hand, is sweet. But the same sugar added to some other things makes it worse. Kill the taste.

Appreciate every moment. Because no matter how good or bad a situation is, it either makes us better for the right reason or otherwise.

It Doesn’t Matter

Sometimes people allow their past hurts to keep them down, the he said, she said, he did, she did to stop you from progressing. But no one really stops you from being great, from having more, from being more other than yourself. Okay so that job didn’t work out, that friendship didn’t last, that marriage failed, but now what? What are you going to do in order to keep progressing in life? Never allow your past failures to be who you are now. They were obstacles that you overcame. As long as you allow your past to dictate your current and future situation you will always be stuck. Get out there and prove everyone wrong, get out there and make it happen, get out there and get your own. Don’t stay bitter and angry…don’t allow your past to control your happiness. Because while you are focused on the people who hurt you, guess what. ..they are LOVING life.

Healthy

I just don’t understand why people will waste their money on frivolous items like expensive handbags, shoes, or clothes or who knows what else….but refuse to spend money on their health.

People are so gung-ho about getting healthy until they have to cough up a little extra money for it. You have no problem spending money on that name brand purse, those expensive shoes…or better yet….spending money on going out to eat, or stopping at Starbucks every morning for that “perfect coffee”, but the moment something is offered to you that will improve your health…you want nothing to do with it. You go silent.

Investing a little extra money in your health now is a hell of a lot cheaper in those medical bills you could have later on. That name brand hand bag or those expensive shoes are NOT going to prevent things like heart disease, diabetes, etc.

Furthermore, when someone offers you something that could potentially change your life, don’t be resistant to it! Just open your mind!

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Hope

Hope is when you’re hanging from a thread bore line feeling pain yet you’re still fighting

Hope for a patient is the reason to get up every morning

Hope is your inside voice telling you not to give up

Hope is your brave knight fighting away the darkness

Hope is the belief that you can change your life

Hope is the medicine that puts a smile on your face

Hope is the feeling that there’s still a brighter tomorrow waiting your way.

Hope is the force that to keep you walking, searching, dreaming and longing

Picture from http://ito-saith-webb.deviantart.com/art/Light-of-Hope-Speed-Painting-311747150

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3 Quotes Challenge #2-Day 2

jacquelineobyikocha  has challenged me to the 3 day quotes challenge.

The rules
Post a quote a day, for three consecutive days
Pass the challenge on to three new bloggers each day.

My second quote:

1. You must let the pain visit.

2. You must allow it to teach you

3. You must not allow it to overstay.

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo, three routes to healing

Painting by Pavel Guzenko

I nominate:

Fun Simplicity

Kathy

freespirit

Letters

Dear old self, you’re dead to me and I won’t mourn your passing

Dear current self, you are a fighter and from the ashes you shall always rise

Dear mom, it’s time for you to stop worrying about me it’s my turn now

Dear Nelly, can I be your angel to always guide your path

Dear mind, why don’t you set me free as I don’t need these memories, it’s time to move ahead

Dear heart, I won’t let you play with the strings of my mind anymore

Dear luck, you never was a friend of mine but I learned to survive without you

Dear salary why don’t you stay with me until the end of the month?

(This post is inspired by one of the challenges of OctPoWriMo 2015, http://www.octpowrimo.com/2015/10/oh-dear.html though I am not participating in OctPoWriMo 2015 I really loved this particular challenge which inspired me to write this post)

Still I Rise

This is one of my favorite poem by the great Maya Angelou

Still I Rise

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

Closed Doors

Closed doors all around me

And I struggle to open each one of them

You see life has always been unfair to me

And I never get what I want

But life is full of lessons

I learned that persistence is the key

And my fate is within my hands

That’s why I have the mindset of a winner and champion

And I will always aim for the stars

No matter how winds of change blow

I’m harder, stronger, better than before