Through Adversity You Find Out Who Truly Cares For You

Remember that anyone can love you when things are going great, but it is only those who are willing to love you at your worst who are those that truly care for you.
Don't let those who only want to be there for you in the good times stay around, because when times get hard, they won't be there to help support you, and in fact they will only cause you more grief by causing you to be angry at the fact that they arent around to support you.

Instead only dedicate your time to the people that you know are going to be there for you through thick and thin.
People will show who they really are when you are faced with the smallest bit of adversity.
If a person shows support and encouragement when you are going through small or mediocre things, chances are they will be there for you when the biggest storms roll your way!

Remember, anyone can love you when the sun is shining.

In the storms is where you learn who truly cares for you.

 

Live in the Present Moment

There's no way of knowing what tomorrow brings, and life's too short to waste it.

If you aren't on this Earth to have a good time and to make a legacy out of your name, then what are you on this earth for?
Too many times people are so busy living their lives in the hopes of getting over and getting past feelings, when feelings have nothing to do with their dreams.

Don't let yourself stop dreaming just because of the way you feel.
The way that you feel at any given time is only there for us to be able to guide us toward and to guide us away from certain things in our lives.

There is no way of knowing what tomorrow may bring, especially if you spend too much of your time over-thinking life.
Just step up to the plate, and live the life you want to live, life is much too short not to.

 

Hold your Peace

Remaining calm in adversity is a sign of great spiritual strength.

No matter what's going on in your life right now,

"hold your peace!"

Jealousy

Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value.
Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point - that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you.
There is only one alternative - self-value.
If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved.

You will always think it's a mistake or luck.
Take your eyes off others and turn the scanner within.
Find the seeds of your jealousy, clear the old voices and experiences.
Put all the energy into building your personal and emotional security.
Then you will be the one others envy, and you can remember the pain and reach out to them.

~Jennifer James

When God steps in, miracles happen.

Our whole life is a miracle.
From us being born, to us living a free life, free of condemnation, and free of having to worry about what others do to bring us down.
We are more than conquerors, if we just believe in him, and work through his will instead of trying to live our lives living our own will there will be nothing put in our paths that we wont be able to overcome.

Ask God for his guidance, and he will give you his guidance.
Ask God for his wisdom and he will give you his wisdom.
Ask God for a miracle and he will give you his miracles.

Just be sure to put all of your faith in him, and to believe with everything inside of you that he will step in and make a miracle happen.
It may not come when you want it, but he will surely be there when you need him!
Be faithful today!



Serenity*Courage*Wisdom

I am Me

Why would I want to be like anyone else,
God made me to be like no other I am Me,
I am beautiful,
I am strong,
I am loving...
I am Me

♥ ♥ ♥love at first sight♥ ♥ ♥

Life doesn't get Easier, You just get Stronger.

As you go through life in a path towards your dreams, one thing you learn is that everything you have been through can teach you a lesson about where you are going.
It isn't and it shouldn't be everyday that we make mistakes, because we should be able to learn from the mistakes of the past, so that we don't make them again.

Learning to make the best choices for our lives has more to do with learning from who we were yesterday, than calculating the best moves we can make today.
Life can be a revolving door if we allow it to be.

Make choices that you know will lead you away from the same you that you might have been, and continue to grow, because as your life advances it never truly gets easier. There will always be obstacles in your path, but as you get past obstacle after obstacle, take the wisdom you gained from surpassing each one to get you where you truly aspire to be!

Mean it when you Say it

Nowadays people say I love you just like they are saying hello.

Taking love seriously is a serious problem in the world today.

More and more people get confused with what love is, and this is primarily because they don't have a serious grasp of what love really is.
Some of us wish that there could be a perfect indicator of what real love is, and if someone loves you in the same manner that you love them, but there is just no possible way to know.

It is important that when we deal with potential love interests, that we know when things are too good to be true, and that we also know when love is real.

True love happens differently for everyone, but if we can we should take as much time as possible to get to know somebody, and really let our feelings grow overtime, as not to rush love and mistake lust for love.

Through it all, follow your heart, only you will really know when it is best to decide to tell someone that you love them.

Be Faithful

Be faithful in small things

because

it is in them that your strength lies.

~Mother Teresa

Forgiveness is a Spiritual Act of Love

First, we have to face the notion that in order to consider forgiving someone we must have been blaming them for something.
We must have anger, resentment, blame, even hatred going on in order to feel the need to forgive.
Forgiveness is really an act of letting go, releasing the anger, the hatred, the bitterness, the thoughts of revenge that we have been carrying around.
We can do this letting go without even encountering the person we want to forgive.
We forgive by releasing all resentment, anger, and bitterness and thus set ourselves free from the negative feelings that weaken us.
First we have to get past blame.
Then we have to learn to send love to all.

Forgiveness is the most powerful thing that you can do for your physiology and your spirituality, and it remains one of the least attractive things to us, largely because our egos rule so unequivocally.

To forgive is somehow associated with saying that it is all right, that we accept the evil deed.
But this is not forgiveness.
Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

Forgiveness is a spiritual act of love for yourself and it sends a message to everyone, including yourself, that you are an object of love and that that is what you are going to impart.

~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Be Honest with your Friends

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it will always get you the right ones.

Choosing to be honest is crucial to becoming who you aspire to be, because it allows you to act as honestly as possible to who you really are deep down.
Being honest may not be the best way to get an overflowing amount of friends, but who wants friends that you can't be open and honest with anyway?
Your friends should be people that you can be open and honest with at all times, not just when it is convenient for them to hear the truth.

The right friends for you are those who are willing to be open and honest with you, and will allow you to do the same, without condemnation, and with the intent to help each other grow and move to greater heights.

Be wary of those who only seem to leave you broken and that don't help to build!
Everyone needs some constructive criticism, but it has to be that, constructive.

Thank you Lord for my special friends

Years to Build - Seconds to Break - Forever to Repair

Trust takes years to build, seconds to break, and forever to repair

Giving trust to someone isn't hard to do, but maintaining a trusting relationship with someone is very hard to do when a persons trust is broken.
It only takes one bad move to break someone's trust, and something that may have taken years to build, immediately goes away for many people.

Instead of worrying about having to repair the trust you have broken, we should make the effort to honor those who we feel deserve our trust in the first place.
We can give honor by doing things that we know would be pleasing to others, instead of tip-toeing the line of trust that we have with them.

Show honor in a relationship by listening and being receptive to what other's wishes and feelings are.
Don't do things that you know or that you even think may stand a chance in violating their trust.

Be open, honest, transparent, and honorable.

Proud of who I am

I may not be the most beautiful,
the sexiest,
or the girl with the perfect body,
but I don't pretend to be someone I'm not.
I'm good at being me.
I might not be proud of of some of the things I've done in the past,
but I'm proud of who I am today!

E.N.D

End is not the end, in fact E.N.D is "Effort Never Dies",

and if you get NO in an answer, then remember NO is,

"Next Oppportunity"

Always be positive

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath.

You will suffocate.

The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it.

Let go and it will be yours forever.

~ Deepak Chopra

You'll Never Be One of Me

True Love

Love doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be true.

A true love is a perfect love, because it bonds together two people who are imperfect!

There are a few stages in love, and by the last stage, two different people grow such a bond together that their lives are ultimately planned around one another's.
A true love will do a lot for the parties involved.
It will certainly make both parties involved feel good about their lives, and their selves.

It will give each other a respect that both parties deserve, and will protect each party's dignity, through the thick and through the easier times as well.

Love has a lot of things that it needs to be, but perfect isn't one of them, because nobody will ever go through life without making a mistake.
It just needs to be true enough so that it will conquer the mistakes, so that it will outlast the bad times, and so that it will be exceedingly joyous in the good times.

The main characteristic of an everlasting love is that it is true!

You are my true love.

The Ones Worth Keeping

What is right is always in our deepest ♥ of ♥ 's

In our deepest moments of struggle, frustration, fear, and confusion, we are being called upon to reach in and touch our hearts.

Then, we will know what to do, what to say, how to be.

What is right is always in our deepest heart of hearts.

It is from the deepest part of our hearts that we are capable of reaching out and touching another human being.

It is, after all, one heart touching another heart.



None of these is you

The most common ego identifications have to do with possessions,

the work you do,
social status and recognition,
knowledge and education,
physical appearance,
special abilities,
relationships,
personal and family history,
belief systems,
and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications.

None of these is you.

~Eckhart Tolle, best-selling author and speaker.

there is JOY in life!

I can get sad

I can get frustrated

I can get scared

but ...

I never get depressed - because there is joy in my life!

Troubles

I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.

Some come from ahead and some come from behind.

But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see.

Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

~Dr. Seuss

Let it go and start to Grow

This moment is all that is guaranteed - use it to express the depth of your love and to wipe your slate clean of any resentment you are holding on to.
Life is too precious to carry the weight of the past with you!
Let it go and start to grow!

~Jackson Kiddard

you Reap what you Sow

The Three Things We Crave Most In Life

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life:

happiness, freedom, and peace of mind,

are always attained by giving them to someone else.

One of the hardest things to do in life is to give away what you have a lack of.
This law is an unwritten and pretty much unpopular law with the way that society works today, but it is truly a law that works.

If you find yourself lacking in joy, and lacking in happiness, do your best to make someone else happy.
Help someone do something that they would have otherwise never done without your help, smile and be kind to someone who is being rude to you, and try your best to bless others in any other way that you can think of.

If you find yourself lacking peace of mind, help to comfort someone else that you know you can comfort.

If you find yourself lacking in freedom, help to give freedom to someone else, be encouraging, and show people the love you have inside of you.

Doing these things are good ways to quench your own appetite for happiness, freedom, and peace of mind in your own life.

forgive & forget NOT revenge & regret