“Let today be the day you learn the grace of letting go and the power of moving on.” – Steve Maroboli It has been said on many forums that professional athletes have to develop a key habit in order to maintain success. It’s a habit that could get a lot of married folks and those in […]
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“Beautiful things don’t ask for attention” – Unknown For approximately the last 3 years I have gathered myself to write on a weekly basis. Most topics have come from my personal life experiences along with my desire to encourage and build up my readers. Some weeks are harder than others on what I should write or
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“If you live for other people’s acceptance, you will die from their rejection.” – Unknown Have you ever watched a younger person in a circle of their friends, like really got in-tuned to the dynamics of their conversation and observed them as they struggled to fit in, ascertain the “right” words to connect with their peers,
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“If you want something you never had, you have to to do something you’ve never done.” – Unknown At some point in our lives we all come to a crossroad that will test the raw level of our faith versus our fear. No matter what eloquent words we conveniently contrive, that attempt to dismiss the existence
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“Sometimes, you’re reminded of something you’ve heard before, but suddenly, you really ‘get it’. It changes you on the cellular level and begins to inform your thoughts, feelings and actions.” – Deb Purdy There are certain times in our lives when the internal struggles we face become undeniably real. They permeate the very beat of
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Faith is seeing victory when it looks like you’re losing.” – Unknown First let me say if you know me and I know you, I can almost guarantee that you will probably think I am referring to you in some points of this post. And you are right, I probably am, but not in a malicious way,
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Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed. – Bob Riley I will never forget the first time someone close to me died. My emotions were a scattered mess. Sadness engulfed my heart as well as disbelief. Everyone in my family had their own connection
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“Smile, happy looks good on you” 🙂 – Unknown Sometimes in life certain events occur that almost seem like a test. Events that come to challenge our resolve, try our patience and test our will. And if we’re not careful we can easily become caught up in the moment of “stuff” seemingly being assigned just for
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“It’s okay to live a life others don’t understand” – Unknown After almost fifty years of living, I can say that I am finally starting to connect the dots on this thing called life. The ups and downs, the disappointments, the failures, the successes, the hope and dreams fulfilled, and those that fell by the wayside.
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“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” ~ Thomas Merton If I only understood this quote many years ago, it would have possibly made my love life
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