Life isn’t simple. One of the ways that I can grow from life’s adversities, is to see what is positive about a difficult situation, to look for the deeper meaning. I can grow in joy and in pain. It doesn’t need to be one or the other because pain can transform into joy. It can
I will not ask life to give me more than I give it. If I want my life to be generous to me, I will need to be generous to my life. I am daily surrounded by opportunities to make more of me, more of my day, more of my life. If I walk by
Food is medicine. Everything that I put into my body becomes part of me, affects my mood, my health and my state of fitness. Food is fuel, it’s what I run on. Food becomes the quality of my skin, organs, muscles, blood and bone. I cannot lie to my body, what I put in it
Today will not wait for my life to happen, my ship to come in or good fortune to figure out my address and knock on my door. I will find good fortune and knock at its door. I will do this by becoming willing to shift my awareness in a direction that is life affirming
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. Leo Tolstoy
My impulses for change come from within. As I move down the path of self discovery and self awareness, certain ways of being in the world no longer make sense to me. I have an urge to live differently, to see things differently, to be different. When I change on the inside, my outer world
Sometimes when something feels like it’s wrong with me, I want to blame someone else for how it got that way. I want to make sense of it, get the pieces to hang together or create some sort of story as to how things got this way so that I’ll feel less baffled and alone
I will pay attention to the details of life. I will wash my face and smile at myself each morning, take an extra moment to choose something to wear that pleases me. I’ll make myself something delicious to eat each morning and I’ll take my time in eating it. I will walk to work or
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us. Alexander Graham Bell