Curious Delight
Magnetic aesthetic attraction to this image conglomeration.
“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
(Source: psych-facts)
Literary Birthday - 25 May
Happy Birthday, Ralph Waldo Emerson, born 25 May 1803, died 27 April 1882
15 Quotes
- The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
- A man is what he thinks about all day long.
- Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
- Imagination is not a talent of some men, but is the health of every man.
- Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
- Art is a jealous mistress.
- If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
- Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
- I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet, who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write
“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
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Stop sitting there watching people do everything you desire to do.
Stop telling yourself you are not good enough for your own dreams.
Stop letting your fears keep you paralyzed in your book of life.
You owe it to yourself to try. To give yourself a chance to lay those negative voices to rest in your head. You deserve the freedom to try. Will you take it? Will you choose to get up and begin doing the work required for dreams to be more than intangible longings? Time is passing you by as you sit there refusing to let yourself try. I don’t care if you are a beginner. I don’t care if you make a million mistakes along the way. I don’t care if you make a complete mess of it all.
I care that you try. That you take a step forward and make the choice to be vulnerable, open, and patient with the work before you. I care that you decide that your life matters so much that you have to give it your all. Even when you have no idea what or how much you have to give. I care that you chase your dreams and give them the nourishment they need to grow. I care that you were brave enough to have made mistakes.
I don’t want you to be that person who wakes up years from now and wonders what it means to be alive. To be passionate about something. To feel excitement in your life. To have joy in your story. I don’t want that to be you. So I am asking… no I am begging you to please get up and choose yourself. Choose your life and just try.
Try through the storms. Try through the frustrations. Try through the mistakes. Try through the haters. Try through the fears. Try through the confusion. Try through the relapses. Try through the sadness. Try through the hopelessness. Try through every obstacle this world puts in your way.
I believe that through trying. Through making the effort for more than existence you will find the answers, hope, peace, and love you are aching for. You will find your center. Your calm. Your way. I know it is hard to believe that there is a light at the end of the tunnel you are in but sweeheart there is a light. There is a brightness and a warmth waiting to envelop you.
I believe as you try you will be able to see that it has always been there. It begins and ends within you.
Shine.
Bright and true.
Shine.
Try. Try. Try.
You are alive today.
Live your life!
“You can’t go on like you’re going to start really living one day, like all this is some preamble to some great life that’s going to magically appear. I’m a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles. Don’t hold out that there’s something better waiting on the other side. It doesn’t work that way.”
(Source: onlinecounsellingcollege, via psych-facts)
Neurolove.me: How to Achieve Anything
1. Stop fantasising: Those with too rosy a picture of the future tend to put less effort into reaching their goals. Instead, it’s better to be open to some things going wrong. It will help you see the obstacles - and think through beating them.
2. …
“What you seek is seeking you.”
(Source: bossmindset, via mindmotivation)
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
“As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your own worst enemy. The good news is, we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.”
(via psych-facts)
“Crushes are fun. Or at least they’re supposed to be fun as long as you keep them that way. As long as you don’t get emotionally invested or fixated or keep imagining your reality to be what it is not – crushes are fun. But if you expect too much or feel too easily, you might end up with self-inflicted heart ache which just leaves you feeling empty-handed or just plain empty. And all of this for someone who never even promised you anything from the start.”
“Overwhelm is just a mountain of unmade decisions.”
Terri Cole
YUP.
COUNSELLING BLOG: How to Move Forward and Make the Most of Life
1. Pay attention to what bugs you – it could be telling you something important about yourself.
2. Don’t just live with blah or negative feelings. Decide that you will fight to have a happier life.
3. Don’t change or stifle your personality. You’re valuable and special – so be true to who…
