"For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks...The work for which all other work is but preparation." Rainer Maria Rilke
Loving someone it seems so easy doesn't it..and we all feel that for the most part we feel like its not that big of a deal...because we feel we do it without even realizing it...But I feel that even when we think we are loving with our whole heart...in the end we aren't...Loving someone when they are at their best is easy...Loving someone when everything is flowing the same way and coming to together is simple...Life is good.
But how many of us truly give that love when that person is wrong...when they mess up...when they fail...when they are being someone less than the person that they are?? When they hurt us? How many us still give that complete love when things aren't flowing the same direction...when things are going everywhere else but together? When we think about it...loving seems so simple and so easy...yet its one thing to think and another to actual do. I would like to think that when it comes down to it...I would love that person in the same way I always do no matter what the situation is...I would hope to think that...but when those moments come...I find myself jumping out of the boat at times...what I remind myself these days is that's when they need my love-my understanding-my kindness the most...that is when I must not see life thru my eyes but try to imagine it thru theirs...When someone messes up...when someone makes it hard for us to love them in the way that we do...is when they need our love the most...that is when they are in need of understanding...that is when we must realize that we are human...we make mistakes...we are imperfect...and there's a reason for everything that we do and say...
I also need to let people love me when I am the one who is making it hard for others to love me...when I am the one who messes up...when I am the one who is being a person who is less than she is...For we will ALL find ourselves in such places from time to time...When I am in that spot...I need to let others love me like I am at my best...for in the end that's how I have learned to love others in such a way when they are in those places...that's how I know they need someone in their corner...that's how I know they are in need of someone to understand...that's how I know they need someone to see them as the person they truly are...that's when they need someone to walk in when everyone else is walking out...Life is one big story with a million lessons to fill its pages...We live and we learn...and I now add to that...We love.
"More than anything I want to trust in a journey that I don't understand."
"I write entirely to find out what I am thinking & feeling, what I am looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
"Loving you changed my life. It should come as no surprise that losing you has done the same."
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
LOVEthisLiFE
- Michelle
- "Life lies in the JOURNEY not the Destination." Everyday I awake to embrace the day I have been given. Thru times of struggle and in happiness--I find reasons each and everyday to LOVEthisLIFE.
Every story is one to be heard....
"You have been given the chance to live, so LIVE."
"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future. Therefore, you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go. But more importantly it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey."
"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty and your purpose when you are confused."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go - but I believe I have ended up where I needed to be."
My journey...My story...My words
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- The Game of Life
- A Friendship Vow.
- Settlin'
- Ripples of another
- gift of words
- In our corner
- A week from today
- After Anne...challenge to you
- EASTER=HOPE
- Let LiFE Lead...
- We Love...
- New Eyes
- Just Once...
- Let-downs
- Brown into Green
- Have you ever had someone in your life...
- The gift
- Who are you to judge?
- While I'm waiting
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"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me - I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"Some people just live life in a way that well seems against the grain - never taking the paved way the easy way never living to the checklist of life...but maybe just maybe they are seeking a little bit more from life."
"All of your life is about growing into your personal best...all of your life is about growing into greatness."
"When something bad happens, you have three choices...you can either let it define you, let it destroy you OR you can let it strengthen you."
"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."
"Do one thing everyday that scares the complete shit out of you."
"Try to be like a turlte, at ease in your own shell."
"There is a great mystery that none of us will get until that last breath and EVERYTHING will become VERY CLEAR."
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."
"Overcome the notion that you must be regular it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary."
"Too much has been given much is required. You must do something for the greater good to show your gratefulness for the blessings in your life."
"The CHALLENGE of my LIFE is to see how far I can take it."
"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go."
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"
"Maybe mistakes are what makes our fate - without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we never veered off course we wouldn't be who we are now."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the unimportant pieces will breake away. Sometimes life is like that. It tosses us down a hill. But when we reach the bottom and only the important things are left, that's when our vision clears. That's when we hold on tight to what we know, while hope stirs inside us. It's all a matter of perspective."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces - I would still plant my apple tree."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom and your mess into your message."
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
"When you find the way others will find you. Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door. The way that cannot be heard will be echoed in your voice. The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes." -Choose your own journey even if it means taking a path no one ever has.
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer anwsers."
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