The best gift you can give a loved one is to let them be themselves, to stop trying to mould them into your image of what you think a friend, spouse, sibling, etc should be.
Life can be busy. Sometimes we don’t have time to stop and smell the roses. So when you do find yourself in possession of some free time, be intentional about slowing down.
Everything is ten times better when you’re listening to good music. Especially the instrumental stuff.
I crave freedom desperately. But I don’t think I fully understand what freedom is.
There’s a time to be fully present and aware of everything around you, and there’s a time to dream and create and write and philosophize, to become so wrapped up in your thoughts that you forget the present. Both are good, in their proper place.
Take care of your heart.
Enjoy life and don’t take things for granted. Everything can change in a second.
Take time to wander. It’s good for you
When dealing with pain and difficulty in life, you need a combination of both softness and toughness. You need to be soft enough to let yourself grieve, to ask for help when needed, to allow yourself to still love people and enjoy life throughout it. But you need to be tough enough to accept the fact that life sucks sometimes, to believe that your pain may make you stronger in the end, and to keep yourself from falling into despair.
The ocean is absolutely amazing and I am privileged to live close to it.
Give thanks.
Risk taking and adventure are good. Travel, go bungy jumping, climb mountains, and make new friends. But understand that none of these things will make you permanently happy.
Accomplishing things is good. But there’s a time to rest as well. You don’t have to ALWAYS be productive.
The world is full of magic and wonder and beauty. But you have to keep your eyes open for it.
Heroes and villains both wears masks, thus it’s easy to forget their humanity. When we cast someone in our minds as a hero or a villain, we dehumanize them, making them incapable of either evil or good. In reality, humans are all both good and evil, beautiful and broken. Don’t expect anything else from people.
A good children’s fantasy novel is good for the soul. Narnia does it for me.
Sometimes knowing when to give up and say “that’s enough, I need a break” takes more strength than pressing on.
If you have it in your head that you have to be in control to be happy, you’ll spend your life miserable. You can control some things, but not all. You could die at any second. Best to accept this.
When it comes to emotional healing, we want quick fixes. We want to say, “I had problem_____, and then I (got prayer, went to counselling, etc) and now I’m great.” But it doesn’t usually work that way. Emotional wounds, like their physical counterparts, take time to heal. And that’s okay.
Life is not an equation to be solved. It’s a dance, a symphony, a work of art. Treat it as such.
Life can be busy. Sometimes we don’t have time to stop and smell the roses. So when you do find yourself in possession of some free time, be intentional about slowing down.
Everything is ten times better when you’re listening to good music. Especially the instrumental stuff.
I crave freedom desperately. But I don’t think I fully understand what freedom is.
There’s a time to be fully present and aware of everything around you, and there’s a time to dream and create and write and philosophize, to become so wrapped up in your thoughts that you forget the present. Both are good, in their proper place.
Take care of your heart.
Enjoy life and don’t take things for granted. Everything can change in a second.
Take time to wander. It’s good for you
When dealing with pain and difficulty in life, you need a combination of both softness and toughness. You need to be soft enough to let yourself grieve, to ask for help when needed, to allow yourself to still love people and enjoy life throughout it. But you need to be tough enough to accept the fact that life sucks sometimes, to believe that your pain may make you stronger in the end, and to keep yourself from falling into despair.
The ocean is absolutely amazing and I am privileged to live close to it.
Give thanks.
Risk taking and adventure are good. Travel, go bungy jumping, climb mountains, and make new friends. But understand that none of these things will make you permanently happy.
Accomplishing things is good. But there’s a time to rest as well. You don’t have to ALWAYS be productive.
The world is full of magic and wonder and beauty. But you have to keep your eyes open for it.
Heroes and villains both wears masks, thus it’s easy to forget their humanity. When we cast someone in our minds as a hero or a villain, we dehumanize them, making them incapable of either evil or good. In reality, humans are all both good and evil, beautiful and broken. Don’t expect anything else from people.
A good children’s fantasy novel is good for the soul. Narnia does it for me.
Sometimes knowing when to give up and say “that’s enough, I need a break” takes more strength than pressing on.
If you have it in your head that you have to be in control to be happy, you’ll spend your life miserable. You can control some things, but not all. You could die at any second. Best to accept this.
When it comes to emotional healing, we want quick fixes. We want to say, “I had problem_____, and then I (got prayer, went to counselling, etc) and now I’m great.” But it doesn’t usually work that way. Emotional wounds, like their physical counterparts, take time to heal. And that’s okay.
Life is not an equation to be solved. It’s a dance, a symphony, a work of art. Treat it as such.
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