Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. Find your strengths.
“Somewhere along the line, we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.” “The human body is capable of extraordinary feats.” “Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!”
(Source: sivers.org)
Fascinating article from a nurse who posts five of the most common death-bed regrets she has heard.
5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.
When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.
Life is a choice. It is YOUR life. Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly. Choose happiness.
(Source: inspirationandchai.com)
It’s not a matter of what you know or what you learn, it’s what you let go of that makes you free.
Be in peace, not in pieces.
Are you, Livin the Life that you always dreamed of, given the time to the ones that make you smile, makin your world worth while?
— Martin Sexton
I think the more we fill our lives with more and more things we have to do, the less and less time we are spending on who we have to be.
We magnify the differences between us, instead of the things that make us similar. You are not really any different than anyone else on earth that is your age, yet you feel like you are just because they speak a different language, eat different food, worship a different imaginary creature, or live somewhere else. In reality, we are all the same species living on the same planet. To bears, we probably look exactly the same.
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(Source: inappropriatesidekick)
Joyfully celebrating the killing of a killer who joyfully celebrated killing carries an irony that I hope will not be lost on us. Are we learning anything, or simply spinning harder in the cycle of violence?
— theologian Brian McLaren
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