November 2009
36 posts
Five Things Love Is Not...
havealittlefaithinme:
justbesplendid:
Love is not selfish. Love seeks not its own glory. Love is not self-centered. Love gives with a generous heart. It puts the needs of others before the self. Love is not self-serving. Love serves others with willingness and a glad heart. Love does not offer assistance and harbor resentment. Love does not smile through clenched teeth. Love does not wear a...
“I know you know but I want to remind you anyway. I miss you.”
– Amahl (via maddieness)
Erica’s 20 Rules for Writers
inspiri:
1. Have faith–not cynicism 2. Dare to dream 3. Take your mind off publication 4. Write for joy 5. Get the reader to turn the page 6. Forget politics (let your real politics shine through) 7. Forget intellect 8. Forget ego 9. Be a beginner 10. Accept change 11. Don’t think your mind needs altering 12. Don’t expect approval for telling the truth - (Parents, politicians,...
“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via justbesplendid) (via treasurebox)
In good time
justbesplendid:
Give yourself the time necessary to succeed. Patience and persistent effort will make any possibility come to life.Value is created over time. With focused action, the goals you seek will surely come in good time.
Your efforts will not fail to bring results. And the most powerful results are the ones that come over time.Plant the seeds of success. And even before those first...
Ways to increase your feeling of self worth
havealittlefaithinme:
justbesplendid:
Write down 7 minor goals for the week and tick one off each day as you achieve it.
Read a book a month. Reading a book is actually an achievement in this technology and media driven world and reading a full book is a great way to achieve a sense of accomplishment.
At the end of each day before falling asleep write down something you feel proud about,...
fruit? I'll take one of each, please.
havealittlefaithinme:
fromthelookinglass:
Excerpt from “When God Whispers Your Name”, by Max Lucado.
“For the next twelve hours I will be exposed to the day’s demands. It is now that I must make a choice. Because of Calvary, I am free to choose. I choose Love … No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness. I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves. I choose...
“I know what it’s like to be afraid of your own mind.”
– Dr.Spencer Reid (via misswallflower)
8 limiting patterns of thinking
justbesplendid:
‘Life is shit’ Thinking pattern –Everything in life is bad, everybody is not to be trusted and nothing good will ever happen to them e.g. “I won’t get that job, the interviewer didn’t like me, I didn’t particularly like them anyway.”
‘Unsubstantiated conclusive’ Thinking pattern– You tend to make a lot of conclusions without any evidence to back up your conclusions. This...
What can you do to Improve your Self Image?
havealittlefaithinme:
justbesplendid:
List things you like about yourself - include appearance, personality and skills
Change negative thoughts to positive ones by focusing on the positive and forgetting the negative things that happen to you
Remember compliments and note them down
Try the powerful method of self-hypnosis: Building your self esteem - self hypnosis download It will...
“You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front....”
– Sasha Azevedo (via justbesplendid)
Truth
ohbytheway:
Truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but, in the end, there it is. -Sir Winston Churchill
Close your eyes to corral a virtue,
crumblybones:
Is this fooling anyone else? Never worked so long and hard, To cement a failure, We can blow on our thumbs and posture, But the lonely is such delicate things, The wind from a wasp could blow them, Into the sea, With stones on their feet, Lost to the light and the loving we need, Still to come, The worst part and you know it, There is a numbness, In your heart and it’s...
“I wonder if bees
and the petals they rest on
love each other too?”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott) (via quote-book) (via grayskymorning)
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I...”
– Franz Kafka (jopiedevisboer) (bunnysuit) (ontheborderland) (crashinglybeautiful) (via lheurebleue) (via somesecretstories)
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive....”
– ~ Harold Whitman (via justbesplendid) (via quitecheeky) (via thingsgohazy)
“I may still not know what I want to be when I grow up, but I do know that...”
– Amber Morley (via infinitebutterflies) (via everythinglovely) (via ohbytheway)
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and...”
– ~ Melody Beattie (via justbesplendid)
Truth About Failure
inspiri:
justbesplendid:
m-altruism:
Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure… …it does mean you haven’t succeeded yet.
Failure doesn’t mean you don’t have it… …it does mean you have to do something in a different way.
Failure doesn’t mean you are inferior… …it does mean you are not perfect.
Failure doesn’t mean you’ve wasted your life… …it does mean you’ve a reason to start...
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to...”
– ~ Henry David Thoreau (via justbesplendid)
