Your own being

I wish I could show you,

When you are lonely or in darkness,

The astonishing light 

Of your own being.

~Hafiz

Something too

 You may fear losing people.

But you need to realize,

losing you

is something too.

~Amanda Blair

Too big

You tried on my love for size,

but I see now it

was too big for you.

~Kristina Mahr

Too soft

If there are days

you feel as though

your heart is too soft

and sensitivity is all

but a heartbreaking curse, 

remember how important

it is that your heart grows

with every song, smile, and touch,

because softness is not a curse

but rather a beautiful gift

from the universe.

~Courtney Peppernell, Pillow Thoughts IV

One of those days

Posted by Lydia Kimball, by Madison Kohn

Today is one of those days that serve as a reminder of how precious time is.

It is an important reminder to let your family and friends know that you love them while you still can...

It is an important reminder to let go of grudges you hold against someone else and to forgive...

It is an important reminder to reach out to the people you haven't talked to in a while...

It is an important reminder to spend quality time with the people you love while you still can...

It is an important reminder to give your loved ones a hug...

It is an important reminder that tomorrow is never promised...all we know is that we have today...

Because the truth is you don't know how much time you have left, and you also don't know how 

much time your family and friends have left...you never know when your last conversation with

someone is going to be.

Entire ocean

You are not a drop

in the ocean.

you are the entire ocean

in a drop.

~Rumi

Make someone yourself

Ever loved someone so much,

you would do anything for

them? Yeah, well make that

someone yourself and do

whatever the hell you want.

~Harvey Specter

Greater lengths

Men go to far greater lengths to 

avoid what they fear than to

obtain what they desire.

~Dan Brown

Intense obsessions

Don't bend; don't water it down;

don't try to make it logical;

don't edit your own soul according to the fashion.

Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.

~Franz Kafka

Every ounce

 I know my worth.

I've paid dearly 

for every ounce

of it.

Distance

 Distance is my 

new response. I don't

return energy.

I remove myself.

~PeacefulMindPeacefulLife

Can't handle it

If you can't handle it, you can't handle it.

Don't allow other people to make you feel guilty

because the pain you're feeling isn't easy to carry.

Sure, other people may be able to deal with it

better. But they are not you.

So if you're having a hard time dealing with

a painful situation that you can't really handle,

don't apologize for it. Move at your own pace,

even if it's slow. Because it's your heart, it's your battle,

it's your journey, your healing process.

Not anyone else's.

~Kayil York

Care of you

My therapist said "you like taking care of people because it heals the part of you that needed someone to take care of you."

Stops

 fear

does not stop death,

it stops life

Haunt

I promised myself

long ago

that,

no matter what,

I would choose

to see the good

in everyone.

What I didn't know

is how much this

would haunt my own

energy.

~Christopher Poindexter

Fit in

 If you don't fit in, you're probably doing the right thing.

Who you are

 Do things for people not because

of who they are or what they do in return,

but because of who you are.

~Harold S. Kushner

Compete

i won't compete.

if i am not enough as i am,

i'm not interested.

~Bethany Patrick, Stutters and Sighs

Loved you more

I confess,

I loved you more 

than I let on

but you weren't

ready for it

and I wasn't

going to

pour myself

into hands

that couldn't

hold me

~of yesteryear

Neglected yourself

You don't realize how much you

have neglected yourself until you

make yourself a priority again.

~Spiritual Asylum

Collapse

"For a star to be born,

there is one thing that

must happen: a gaseous

nebula must collapse.

So collapse,.

Crumble.

This not your 

destruction.

This is your birth."

~n.t.

Small ones

 We are not often

called to great 

sacrifice, but daily

we are presented 

with the chance 

to make small 

ones.

~Elisabeth Elliot

You're the ghost

You're the Ghost

There's a part of the grieving process,

where your soul kind of leaves your body too.

As though it's searching

for the one you lost, somewhere in the ether.

You walk around, doing all the right things,

putting one foot in front of the other, living,

but it's really as though you're the ghost.

Perhaps you are.

Perhaps your soul searches,

until you find the one you miss,

and they tell you to go back and live.

So when that numbness passes brave one,

maybe it's time to do what you are told,

go back and live, twice as hard.

You don't belong there in the ether,

nor do you need to search for the one you lost,

they find you. And when they do, you'll feel it.

~Donna Ashworth

Your peace

You are not obligated to sacrifice your peace for those who aren't at peace with themselves.

~Terence Lester

Choose yourself

 If them not choosing you forced you to finally choose yourself, you win.

Half loved

 I am too full of life to be half loved.

The lasts

I will never be

the first

of so many things

for you. I came too late,

after life and love

were woven into the

tapestry

of your existence. I care not

about lost firsts,

but I will fight, knuckles

bloody and teeth sharpened,

for your lasts.

Take the old firsts

and put them to rest,

silent below the dirt

and ash of all the old ones

we will burn through.

Take them, but

give me the

lasts.

~Tyler Knott Gregson

Shy

love makes the shy brave

and the brave shy.

~c.c.aurel 

My arms

There is a place

in between my arms

Where your head rests

And I look down

Smiling

On my world

And think for a moment

That if heaven exists - 

Clearly

This is it.

~P.T. Berkey

Steal my breath

You have never

had to steal

my breath

or take it away,

somehow

you have always

managed to convince me

to hand it over

freely.

~Tyler Knott Gregson

Forget

 Forgive and Forget

I've heard of people who forgive but

never forget, but not me. No, I don't

forgive, I can't forgive.

But I forget sometimes.

When you call me, when you

touch me.

I forget sometimes.

~Heretic Hearts

Truly wanted

At least I 

had the courage

to lose myself in

something I

truly wanted.

~faraway

Story ends

i know how the

story ends.

at least part of

it. i don't know

the how or the

when, but i do

know i will

leave this world

loving you.

~JmStorm

Enough hurt

Maybe this is enough

hurt. You know? Maybe this is

too much hurt

to still be able to call it

love.

~Kristina Mahr

Meant to meet

maybe we were meant to meet but not to be

~j.b.

Think of yourself

 What you think of

yourself, is much more

important than what

other people think of you.

Eye contact

Eye contact is

a dangerous,

dangerous 

thing.

But lovely. Oh

so lovely.

On Fire

i do not want to have you

to fill the empty parts of me

i want to be full on my own

i want to be so complete

i could light a whole city

and then

i want to have you

cause the two of us combined

could set it on fire

Nothing wrong

There's nothing wrong in missing him.

There's nothing wrong in hoping.

There's nothing wrong in believing.

Just don't waste years of your life

holding on to a fantasy.

~M.Sosa

Let me

Time casts a spell on you,

but you won't forget me.

I know I could have loved you,

but you would not let me.

~Fleetwood Mac

Unprecedented

You are so busy being you 

that you have no idea how

utterly unprecedented you

are.

~John Green, The Fault in our Stars

The hard road

 Someone once asked me,

"Why do you always insist on taking

the hard road?"

I replied,

"Why do you assume I see two roads?"

~Unknown

Earned

A calm mind, a fit body, and a

house full of love. These cannot be

bought. They must be earned.

~Naval Ravikant

Try too hard

Sometimes we try too hard to make a relationship work. We go too far and wonder why we are so tired.

We give and give some more. Then realize we gave too much of ourselves. Bitterness shows up. We get annoyed a lot easier. This is good! It's a sign to grab our attention. Relationships are hard enough when both people put in the effort. Yet, when it is one-sided, it'll get tiresome and hurtful.

You are worthy of love and respect. You no longer accept empty promises. You no longer hope they'll change. Something deep inside has changed you. At first, you offer them a compromise. You ask directly, how can we make this work? What will it take? And if there's no action to go with their words, you have your answer.

Nelson Mandela writes, "There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." Yes. This is true. Now is the time to grow into your new wings. Set a course, and fly.

~Carolyn Riker

Best answer

 Silence is the best answer to someone who doesn't value your words.

Finally walked away

When I finally

walked away

it wasn't to 

show YOU

anything.

I was showing

MYSELF that

I was worth 

more.

~Alfa

Isn't right

 And one day you realize,

there is more to life

than wasting time on something

that just isn't right.

~Amanda Blair

Forfeiting

Forfeiting who you are shouldn't be the ransom 

you have to pay to the thief who stole your heart 

with no intention of loving you right.

~Pierre Alex Jeanty

Can't believe

 I can't believe what you say,

because I see what you do.

~James Baldwin

Their actions

 Sometimes you don't need

to hear their

excuses or what they

have to say for

themselves because

their actions

already spoke the truth.

The way

 I hope you never

forget the way our

good days together

made you feel.

~faraway

Devastating

 it is devastating to know

i am so easy to let go.

~jessica katoff

Postpone

The longer you entertain chaos,

the longer you postpone peace.

~Soul Whispers

Ok bye

Sometimes I say "bye"

just to hear "don't go",

but I received, "ok bye."

~Thinking Minds

The others

Posted by Nona

From Philo Thoughts

Admit it. You aren't like them. You're not even close.

You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them,

watch the same mindless television shows as they do,

maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it 

seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel

like an outsider, watching the "normal people" as they 

go about their new automatic existences. For every time you

say club passwords like "Have a nice day" and

"Weather's awful today, eh?" you yearn inside to say

forbidden things like "Tell me something that makes 

you cry" or "What do you think deja vu is for?"

Face it, you even tant to talk to that girl in the elevator.

But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man

who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the

same thing? Who knows what you might learn from

taking a chance on conversation with a stranger?

Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes

into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts.

Do the unexpected. Find the others.  ~Timothy Leary

Aren't ready

sometimes, you just aren't ready. no matter how much thought you've put into it - how much enthusiasm you have toward it, sometimes, the right person comes along and it doesn't work - no matter how hard you try. no matter how much you want it to. so be prepared to lose every once in a while. be prepared to let go and understand, how sometimes, timing is everything.

~r.m. drake

Stop for death

 Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death,

He kindly stopped for me;

The carriage held but just ourselves

And Immortality.

We slowly drove, he knew no haste,

And I had put away

My labor, and my leisure too,

For his civility.

We passed the school, where children strove

At recess, in the ring;

We passed the fields of gazing grain,

We passed the setting sun.

Or rather, he passed us;

The dews grew quivering and chill,

For only gossamer my gown,

My tippet only tulle.

We paused before a house that seemed

A swelling of the ground;

The roof was scarcely visible,

The cornice but a mound.

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each

Feels shorter than the day

I first surmised the horses' heads

Were toward eternity.

Universe fights

Do you think the universe fights

for souls to be together?

Some things are too strange and

strong to be coincidences.

 

Unconditional tolerance

 Unconditional love

does not mean

unconditional tolerance.

Unlearn that.

~Thinking Minds

What to expect

 We gotta stop expecting from 

people who have already shown

us. What to expect.

~John Polo

Environments

You deserve to be in

environments that bring

out the softness in you,

not the survival in you,

~Ronne Brown

More perfect world

Our memory is a more perfect world

than the universe; it gives back life to

those who no longer exist.

~Guy de Maupassant

Everything and nothing

 Honor your boundaries.

You can't be everything to everyone

and nothing to yourself.

~Shane Steele

What you're offered

 Never confuse what you're offered

for what you're worth

Have the courage

 May you have the courage

to break the patterns in

your life that are no longer

serving you.

How dangerous

How dangerous it is

To love a person

Not for who they are

But for

Who they could be

~The Random Stories

Nice things

Have posted before but worth repeating...

Don't be upset when

people reject you.

Nice things are

rejected all the time

by people who can't 

afford them.

Too much

 I bring too much to the table

to be treated like a napkin.

Quite aware

 People who repeatedly attack

your confidence and self-esteem

are quite aware of your potential,

even if you're not.

What you want

Ask for what you want. 

Always.

If they leave,

they were never going to give it to you.

But if they stay,

if they stay...

~L.E. Bowman

Noticed

 I noticed a pattern so I made a choice

Potter's hands

 From Pastor Ty's sermon recently:

~Our Potter's hands are scarred~

Absorb

absorb as much of

the light as you can

whenever it

falls on you

~ so that later

when you are lost

in the midnight

of your darkest despair

your tears will

glow in the dark

like fireflies

and we will

come rescue you

I swear

I will find you

~john roedel 

No question

I want

to never have to question

your affection.

I want

to be so sure of

your love

that my anxieties

starve 

and 

die.

~L.E. Bowman, Fill my head with flowers not fear

Starving

I was starving for

your love.

You were feeding off

of my soul.

Never again will I

allow either kind of

hunger to exist at my

heart's table.

~Samantha, Soul Spilled Sentiments

Not yours

And when you look at her,

if you do not feel blessed

to have her.

She is not yours to keep.

She is another man's blessing.

~ Pierre Jeanty

Too tight

 I was the type of person,

That held onto things too tight,

Unable to release my grip,

When it no longer felt right,

And although it gave me blisters,

And my fingers would all ache,

I always thought that holding on,

Was worth the pain it takes,

I used to think in losing things,

I'd lose a part of me too,

That slowly I'd become someone,

My heart no longer knew,

Then one day something happened,

I dropped what I had once held dear,

But my soul became much lighter,

Instead of filled with fear,

And it taught my heart some things,

Aren't meant to last for long,

They arrive to teach you lessons,

And they continue on,

You don't have to cling to people,

Who no longer make you smile,

Or do something you've come to hate,

If it isn't worth your while,

That sometimes the thing you're fighting for,

Isn't worth the cost,

And not everything you ever lose,

Is bound to be a loss.

~The Mind's Journal

Money over love

If you choose money over love,

you will always be poor.

~Bob Marley

Nonsense

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

~Dr. Seuss

Fight or flight

when all you know

is fight or flight,

red flags and 

butterflies

all feel the same.

~Cindy Cherie

Madness

There is always some madness in love.

But there is always some reason in madness.

~Friedrich Nietzche

Small world

i'm not sure

if we were meant

to find each other

but we did.

endless possibilities

in the paths

we choose 

and take mistakenly

but 

there you were.

197 million square miles

of earth

and we

connected.

the probability,

the odds,

still had me

find you

maybe 

it really is

a small world

after all.

~P.T. Berkey

Make time

 I said it once. I'll say it again:

no. body. is. ever. too. busy. if.

they. truly. care. they. will. make.

time.

~the saddest inside

Just know

I know not the when

or the why of all of this,

I just know it's you.

Love harder

 The broken will always

be able to 

love harder than most.

Once you have been in the dark,

you learn to appreciate

everything that shines.

~Zachry K. Douglass

War inside

you will

hurt her, and rage

against her, and completely push

her away, and once she's gone...

you're going to find that this war was

inside of you all along.

~the mirror

If you are

 From Wellbeing Etcetera

If you are

a giver,

a thinker,

a writer,

a lover,

a dreamer,

a story teller,

an encourager, or

a maker of any form of art,

Please for the love of the Universe don't change.

If you have the exquisite quality of being a giver, a thinker, a writer, a lover, a dreamer, a storyteller, an encourager, or a maker of any form of art, in that case, I wholeheartedly urge you, and for the love of the Universe, please never change.

Embrace the power within you to positively impact, inspire others, and create beauty in this world. Stay true to who you are, for you possess a unique magic that has the potential to transform lives and ignite the flames of hope, inspiration, and creativity.

Keep shining brightly, the world needs your unique light, and it is through your genuine expression that you can truly make a difference.

Effortless

It was instinctive,

the way I fell for you.

Like and effortless

intake of breath.

~Josh Walker

Tired of fighting

it's not that I started feeling

less for you,

it's just

I git tired of fighting for us.

~Penned by Neer

Never wasted

 "Love is never wasted,

for its value does not

rest upon reciprocity."

~C.S. Lewis

Never hopeless

She may have been broken,

but she was never hopeless.
And that was all the difference

she needed in order to heal.

~Kayil York

Starve

I've learned the best way to kill something is to let it starve.

No response, no action, no altercations, just don't feed it.

That's where the true power lies.

Nothing

 you ask yourself again and again:

"what did i do to deserve this?"

but never suspect that the answer is:

"nothing."

Don't deserve

 They don't

deserve you, stay

busy.

See it or not

Just a reminder in case your mind

is playing tricks on you today.

You matter.

You're important.

You're loved.

And your presence on this earth

makes a difference,

whether you see it or not.

Treated right

 Don't ever think you did

something wrong by asking

to be treated right.

~Mark Anthony

Mutual desire

Distance never destroys a relationship.

Closeness never builds a relationship.

It's about the mutual desire to be together that ties two people in an everlasting bond.

Excuses

 Sometimes you don't need

to hear their

excuses or what they 

have to say for

themselves because

their actions

already spoke the truth.

First priority

 Your first priority should be your own 

                     Happiness

   

Insatiable

Giving until it hurts

is not a virtue.

It burns you out 

while attracting people

whose appetite

for your energy

is insatiable.

~Martha Beck

Too heavy

Once the heart gets

too heavy with pain,

People don't cry.

They just turn silent.

Completely silent.

~Niyaz Ahemad

Remain soft

 "To remain soft after passing through hands so

careless may just be my greatest strength of all."

~Cindy Cherie

Stop

Stop assuming that people are mad at you.

Stop attempting to read people's minds.

Stop trying to manage the thoughts and

emotions of others. Let people be in charge

of themselves. If they have something to

say to you, they will. And if they don't,

it's their responsibility, not yours.

~Jules Vogel

Be proud

You are allowed to be proud of the victories that no one else can see. Like showering without completely hating your body, not breaking into tears at the thought of the future, talking yourself out of a dark mindset, calming yourself down in public, or like waking up everyday and choosing life. Be proud of the progress no matter if it is visible for others or not. You're doing great, keep up the good work.

Ship sink

Stop being the one who always makes efforts.

Relax and let the ship sink.

Nobody

 And when nobody wakes you up in the 

morning, and nobody waits for you at

night, and when you can do whatever you

want. What do you call it, freedom or

loneliness?

~Charles Bukowski

Validation

Seeking validation will keep you trapped.

You don't need anyone or anything 

to approve of your worth.

Understand this.

Step away

From Roses & Thorns

I had to step away

Not because I didn't care,

But because I did too much

To let you treat me like

I'm less than I'm worth.

~Kayil York

The effort

All she ever wanted was the effort that she gave.

~r.h. sin

Rise up

 Every time I lower my frequency

to meet someone on their level

I end up paying for it.

That's a lesson I really don't need

to learn anymore.

Rise up to meet me.

Last time

 When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?  ~Maya Angelou

Bloom

 From The Sprouting Sunflower

Give yourself the same care & attention that you give to others and watch yourself bloom

No matter who

 "I am with you always" is enough for my soul to live upon no matter who forsakes me.

~Charles Spurgeon

Have to

The truth is

I can 

stand alone.

grow alone.

be alone.

But I do not want

to have to.

You know

Deep down, you know exactly where you

stand with someone. Hope blurs the lines

a bit but, you know.

I would stay

I just wanted you to know

That I'll never care

How far you push me away

Because when I told you

That I would stay

I meant it

You're a little lost

And a little damaged

But you're not hopeless

I know who you are

I love who you are

And that's why I'll stay

So you learn to love

Yourself too

~Courtney Peppernell

Better man

"How do you know

she's the one?"

"I've always 

been a better man

with her,

than I was

without her."

~Mark Anthony Poet

Better off

Reminder

Never forget

you're better off alone

than with somebody

who makes

you feel lonely,

when you

are together.

~Mark Anthony

Felt about yourself

i forgive you...

for treating me the way you

felt about yourself

~butterflies rising

Planting a seed

 You cannot force someone

to comprehend a message that

they are not ready to receive.

Still, you must never

underestimate the power 

of planting a seed.

First and last

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman.

A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

~Charles Dickens

Not understood

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. 

~Oscar Wilde

What they are

 Sometimes people are beautiful

Not in looks

Not in what they say

Just in what they are

~Simran

So much

 Today, try not to be

so hard on yourself.

You are so much to so many.

You are doing a great job.

So what

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. So what. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.

~Andy Warhol

Stewardship

FAITHFUL STEWARDSHIP

by A.W. Tozer

God has been pleased to deal with us in a most remarkable way concerning our Christian stewardship and responsibility of honoring Him with the things He has entrusted to us. The Bible teaching is plain: you have the right to keep what you have all to yourself - but it will then rust and decay, and ultimately ruin you! This may hurt some of you but I am obliged to tell you that God does not need anything you have! He does not need a dime of your money! What you need to understand is that it is your own spiritual warfare at stake in such matters as this. There is a beautiful and enriching principle involved in our offering to God what we are and what we have, but none of us are giving because there is a depression in heaven! A long time ago God said: "If I had need of anything, would I tell you?" Brethren, if the living God had need of anything, He would no longer be God!

The most

 Some of the most generous 

people have no money.

Some of the wisest people

have no education.

Some of the kindest people

were hurt the most...

Behaved better

 You own everything that happened to you.

Tell your stories.

If people wanted you to write warmly

about them, they should have behaved better.

~Anne Lamott

Truly damaged

 You'll never know how truly 

damaged a person is until

you try to love them.

Out of anger

Pay attention to what people say out of anger,

they've been dying to tell you that.

All over again

If I had to do it all over again,

I would choose you as my lover and friend.

Life twists and turns but our love runs true,

as if from the start our hearts somehow knew.

Just like the river is called to the sea,

forever with you I am destined to be.

~John Mark Green & Christy Ann Martine

Your standards

Allow people to see

how much you love yourself,

it shows them your standards.

Let it be known

that the love you give to your heart

is enough to keep you happy

and that you won't tolerate anything less

than what you already have.

~Writings of M.

No matter how much

The moral of this story is -

no matter how much we try, no matter how

much we want it;

some stories just don't have a happy ending.

~

Choose love

I hope you choose love. Even when it would be

easier to hate. When someone stirs white-hot rage

within you, when they insult you, when they

question your worth: be loving. Some people

need your love more than you do.

~Kirsten Robinson

Courage to endure

 Patience is not just

the ability to wait, it's

the courage to endure

the waiting without

losing hope.

Unkind to myself

I've been unkind to myself

for so long.

I've put others' feelings

over mine.

I've said sorry for things

I never should have

when the only one

who deserves the apologies

is the version of me

that I failed to treat right.

~the clumsy lass

Nothing to offer

A confused man

has nothing 

to offer a good woman.

~Mark Anthony Poet

So weird

I think when you're transitioning

from being a people pleaser to 

someone with more boundaries it's 

so weird, because it's hard to tell if 

you're being mean or if you're just 

listening to your own feelings

because you're so used to

only thinking about others.

Not an invitation

Just because we are kind, respectful,

and empathetic by nature, that is not

an invitation to tolerate mistreatment.

~Omar Hachem

Sweet time

Someday you're gonna look back on this

moment of your life as such a sweet time

of grieving. You'll see that you were in

mourning and your heart was broken,

but your life was changing.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Ten-fold

if you love too deeply

if you care too much

if you give the world

if you look past

if you feel it all

too immensely

if you live and die

on the field

for someone you love

that's ok.

one day

it will actually 

all come back to you

ten-fold.

promise you.

~P.T. Berkey

Reinforces

God often reinforces

our faith after we trust Him,

not before.

~Ravi Zacharias

Held accountable

Being held accountable

may feel like an attack if 

you're not ready to acknowledge

how your poor decisions

impact others.

Go ahead

 Why can't you stop thinking about them?

Because they lived.

Because they were part of your life.

Because they are gone too soon.

Because you would give anything to

have just one more day with them.

Because the more you 

keep their memory alive,

the more ALIVE they feel.

Go ahead and think about them.

Talk about them.

Write about them.

Dream about them.

Let their memory be a 

significant part of your life.

~Jenni Brennan

Lightens the burdens

 No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.  ~Charles Dickens

Eye on you

 Be wary of people who constantly keep an eye on what you're doing but don't compliment or support you.

Not ordinary

 Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.  ~Oscar Wilde

Chosen

Stop waiting for someone else 

to say that you count,

that you matter,

that you have worth,

that you have a voice,

a place, that you are called.

Didn't you know, darling?

The One who knit you together

in your mother's womb is the one

singing these words over you,

you are chosen.

~Sarah Bessey

Always with you

 I Am Always With You

When I am gone, release me, let me go. I have so many things to see and do.

You musn't tie yourself to me with too many tears,'

But be thankful we had so many good years.

I gave you my love, and you can only guess

How much you've given me in happiness.

I thank you for the love that you have shown,

But now it's time I traveled on alone.

So grieve for me a while, if grieve you must

Then let your grief be comforted by trust

That it is only for a while that we must part,

So treasure the memories within your heart.

I won't be far away for life goes on. And if you need me,

Call and I will come. Though you can't see or touch me,

I will be near and if you listen with your heart,

You'll hear all my LOVE around you soft and clear

And then, when you come this way alone,

I'll greet you with a SMILE and "Welcome Home."

Continuously

 Life is short.

Work somewhere where you're continuously 

accepted, respected, encouraged,

inspired, empowered and valued.

About you

Reminds me of a few people I know...

If you live your life as if everything is about you, you will be left with just that. Just you.

~Toby Mac

Raised on

 From Rantings of a Beautiful Mind

People raised on love see things differently than those raised on survival. 

~Joy Marino

Left with me

After the funeral and

everybody's gone home,

where do you go?

It was like there was a 

big reception and

everybody came, but I 

was left with the mess.

I was left with me.

~Benjamin Allen

God's anything

 From Flying Free

False statement: "God can do anything. Trust God for a miracle in your marriage."

Truer statement: God's "anything" also includes free will.

                            My spouse is using his to harm me.

                            I will use mine to stay safe.

The door

 Walls keep everybody out...

Boundaries teach people where the door is.

Drink the ocean

 if they

want you,

they will not

lose you

and that is how

it works.

when someone

loves you

they will

drink the ocean

just to make sure

 you do not 

drown.

~r.m. drake

Ideal

 You might not be in an ideal situation,

but you have an ideal God.

~Tony Evans

Most glorified

 God is the most glorified in us

when are most satisfied in Him.

~John Piper

What you have

 No. We don't always get what we 

want. But consider this:

There are people who will

never have what you have

right now.

The few

 The Few

The easy roads are crowded

And the level roads are jammed;

The pleasant little rivers

with drifting folks are crammed.

But off yonder where it's rocky,

Where you get a better view,

You will find the ranks are thinning

And the travelers are few.

Where the going's smooth and pleasant

You will always find the throng,

For the many, more's the pity,

Seem to like to drift along.

But the steps that call for courage,

And the task that's hard to do

In the end result in glory

For the never-wavering few.

~Edgar Albert Guest

Your looks

Don't prioritise your looks my friend, as they won't last the

journey.

Your sense of humour though, will only get better with age.

Your intuition will grow and expand like a majestic cloak of

wisdom.

Your ability to choose your battles, will be fine-tuned to 

perfection.

Your capacity for stillness, for living in the moment, will

blossom.

Your desire to live each and every moment will transcend

all other wants.

Your instinct for knowing what (and who) is worth your

time, will grow and flourish like ivy on a castle wall.

Don't priotise your looks my friend,

they will change forevermore, that pursuit is one of much

sadness and disappointment.

Prioritise the uniqueness that makes you you, and the 

invisible magnet that draws in other like-minded souls to

dance in your orbit.

These are the things that will only get better.

~Donna Ashworth

Close enough

If you claim to be someone's ally, but

aren't getting hit by the stones thrown at

them, you aren't standing close enough.

~Stan Mitchell

Solitary

knowing how to be solitary

is central to the art

of loving.

when we can be alone,

we can be with others

without using them

as a means of escape.

~bell hooks

Okay/Not okay

 DIVORCE IS OKAY.

Breaking up is okay. Starting over

is okay. Moving on is okay. Being

alone is okay. What is not okay is

staying somewhere you're not

valued and appreciated.

Generous soul

Proverbs 11:24-27

There is one who scatters, yet increases more;

And there is one who withholds more than is right,

But it leads to poverty.

The generous soul will be made rich,

And he who waters will also be watered himself.

The people will curse him who withholds grain,

But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it. 

Themselves

 Whatever happens around you,

don't take it personally...Nothing

other people do is because of you.

It is because of themselves.

~Don Miguel Ruiz

Kindness

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else... Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything to my mind. If you're kind that's it. 

~Roald Dahl

Pity on the poor

Proverbs 19:17

He who has pity on the poor lends to the Lord,

And He will pay back what he has given.

Justifies the wicked

 Proverbs 17:15

He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just,

Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.

Rewards evil

Proverbs 17:13

Whoever rewards evil for good,

Evil will not depart from his house.

All

 You deserve all the goodness you can get.