Part of what it means to be alive

Every one of us is losing something precious to us.
Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again.
That’s part of what it means to be alive.  
By : Haruki Murakami

Thomas Jefferson

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.  
By : Thomas Jefferson

Growing up

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.  
by : Cassandra Clare

We are all connected

There are no random acts.. We are all connected…
You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.  
By : Mitch Albom

Missing you

It never gets easier, missing you.. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.  
By : Heather Brewer

Maria V. Snyder

Everyone grieves in different ways.
For some, it could take longer or shorter.
I do know it never disappears.
An ember still smolders inside me.
Most days, I don’t notice it, but, out of the blue, it’ll flare to life. 
By : Maria V. Snyder

Yesterday .. Today..Tomorrow

I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow. 
By : Santosh Kalwar

You Push

You stay safe.. You love.. You survive…
You laugh and cry and struggle and sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed.. You Push. 
By : Carrie Ryan

Do you feel your music ?

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins.
Everything living has a rhythm.. Do you feel your music ?  

By : Michael  Jackson

Need and Give

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you. 
By : Sue Monk Kidd

The point of simple living

The point of simple living for me has got to be…
A soft place to land.. A wide margin of error.. Room to breathe…
Lots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day.
By : Leo Babauta

We can change the future

There are times in our lives when we have to realize our past is precisely what it is, and we cannot change it.
But we can change the story we tell ourselves about it, and by doing that, we can change the future.  

By : Eleanor Brown

Faith and Enthusiasm

It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.  
By : liver Wendell Holmes Sr.

You can’t look back

A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back…
You just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future. 

By : Jodi Picoult

Life Learn Realize

The more I live, the more I learn.
The more I learn, the more I realize the less I know.  

By : Michel Legrand

Exhausted

When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this.. you haven’t.  
By : Thomas A. Edison

Help People

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them…
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth…
Give the world the best you have anyway. 

By  : Kent M. Keith

Battlefield

The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.  
By : Yann Martel

Amount of Good

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit. 
By : Ronald Reagan

Good Deed

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark.
And the thing is, when you’re gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back. 

By : Charles de Lint

Champion

Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead. 
By : Paula White

Dreaming

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.
Dreaming, after all is a form of planning.  

By : Gloria Steinem

True courage

True courage is about facing life without flinching.
I don’t mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end.
I’m talking about enduring the boredom, the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.


By : Robin Hobb

Woody Allen

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.” 
By : Woody Allen

Miracle

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” 

By : Albert Einstein

Good And Bad People


Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
By : Plato

First Post


"
How could God want close to you, if you do not try to approach the Lord."


If we think of rough ... sentence above could be true, as a slap to remind ourselves to.

But it certainly is not like that, God is compassionate and merciful.


This post I took from my friend blog... Rieske Blog.