If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
You came in to this world with enough light to find your way out of the dark, enough kindness to save a soul, enough love to shift a planet. Don't worry, you are equipped with all you could ever need. Look within, you are drenched in magic.
Journey as far outside of your comfort zone as you can possibly go. Evolve so magnificently That you make even butterflies jealous. take risk after risk after risk.
Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
Joy in Ordinary Moments Joy comes to us in ordinary moments. We risk missing out when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.
I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing.
Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.
No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
We each need to make our lion's roar - to persevere with unshakable courage when faced with all manner of doubts and sorrows and fears - to declare our right to awaken.
We must understand the power of the stories we tell ourselves, and differentiate them from the direct experience of life. In this way, we can use thoughts without becoming trapped by them.
When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long. Our individual life is an expression of the whole mystery, and in it we can rest in the center of the movement, the center of all worlds.
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. (Tom Sawyer)
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and more open to what scares us. We always have this choice.
We don’t set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people’s hearts.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Give me laugh lines and wrinkles I want proof of the jokes we shared Engrave the lines into my face like The roots of a tree that grow deeper With each passing year I want sunspots as souvenirs For the beaches we laid on I want to look like I was Never afraid to let the world Take me by the hand And show me what it’s made of I want to leave this place knowing I did something with my body Other than trying to Make it look perfect
Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.
There is something wonderfully bold and liberating about saying yes to our entire imperfect and messy life.
We wait for things to be different in order to feel okay with life. As long as we keep attaching our happiness to the external events of our lives, which are ever changing, we’ll always be left waiting for it.
If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
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