I think of the world around me. I think of all the beauty my eyes have taken in this life thus far. I think of those who shared life's moments with me in a smile-a hug- a tear - a laugh. I think of those who brought meaning into my life. Those who stayed for only a while while others are still here. I think of the lives' taken too soon and the friendships that just faded out due to life - mistakes or just plain distance. I think of the person I have grown into because of all of these things. How I was shaped and changed because of the lives around me and the world that emcompassed me. I think of the growth and the falls. The strengths I have found and the weaknesses I can grow from. I think of the places I have been and what it has taken me to be just where I am at. I think of the amazing indescribable beauty of this world and the laughter I have shared with so many. The world has changed me and its still changing me. It was in a smile - in a laugh - in a kind word - in a pat on the back from such people. It was in a landscape that took the breath right out of me with its pure and natural beauty that just encouraged me, supported me, believe in me, and so many ways pulled me through when I thought I could no longer go. This life is filled with so many simple and wonderful gifts... yet its only if we choose to see.
I hope one day my wrongs will be righted. I hope one day my weaknesses will one day be strengths. I hope one day I will be able to live with and grow from the regret and mistakes I have made. I hope one day lost friends will return. I hope one day I will see the faces I have so longed to see and hear the voices I have missed. I hope one day I will make people proud to say they know me. I hope one day I will be known as a simple kind and true friend. I hope one day I will truly be someone who made a difference. I hope one day I will be forgiven for my mistakes. I hope one day the people I care about and love know the meaning they are to my life. I how one day I can voice the depths of their being in my life in words that can finally bridge my soul's thoughts to my tongue. I hope I am able to chase - reach and hold the dreams of my true being. I hope someday my face is covered in a face aged with wrinkles of smiles. I hope someday I am granted understanding in this life's journey.
I am unsure of the journey I am on. All I do know is that what do dreams know of boundaries? So why not reach for the sky and yet even better the moon. All I know is that as long as there's still life in my I will be living this life to the depths of my soul. I will be laughing and smiling and just simply being... just simply breathing... Just simply living in the moment. I will be paying it forward, I will be showing kindness, I will leave the places and people around me for the better, I will be believing in others' greatness and encouraging them in all areas of their life. I will share a smile - a laugh - a tear with those who bring meaning into my life...I will be find reasons everyday to LOVEthisLIFE. And I hope when my time comes and I see the great light...I will have spent every ounce of my being, I will have lived every moment I was given, I will simply have nothing left to give. I hope my mark will be clearly written in the lives of those around me. And more than anything I hope that those lives will find themselves living this life to the depths of their souls. And I hope that YOU are finding reasons everyday to LOVEthisLIFE...because there are OH OH SOO MANY.
"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."
"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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