Focus on Your Strengths
“There
is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just
happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at
the same time.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“In
the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
―
Leo Tolstoy
“People
where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in
one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for...
They
don't find it," I answered.
And
yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little
water..."
Of
course," I answered.
And
the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the
heart.”
―
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“You
only need one man to love you. But him to love you free like a wildfire, crazy
like the moon, always like tomorrow, sudden like an inhale and overcoming like
the tides. Only one man and all of this.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“There
is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically
herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true
essence of beauty.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Focus
on your strengths, not your weaknesses.
Focus
on your character, not your reputation.
Focus
on your blessings, not your misfortunes.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“You'll
never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
―
Charlie Chaplin
“The
only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself
pull me down anymore.”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“To
love and win is the best thing.
To
love and lose, the next best.”
―
William Makepeace Thackeray
“The
greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
―
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
“The
biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“Life
sucks, and then you die...”
―
Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
“Travel
far enough, you meet yourself.”
―
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“I
think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us open; but when we
burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning into a supernova. And
then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re suddenly more beautiful
than we ever were before!”
― C.
JoyBell C.
“I
said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the
wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing;
there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait
without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be
the light, and the stillness the dancing.”
―
T.S. Eliot
“Wanting
to be someone else is a waste of who you are”
―
Kurt Cobain
“The
heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness
is in the hands.”
―
Carolyn Forché, The Country Between Us
“I
never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.”
―
Taylor Swift
“I
live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“If
a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a
Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will
pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
―
Martin Luther King Jr.
