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Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail and you will weep each time and idol falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there.

- A Course in Miracles 

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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

- Coco Chanel 

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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.

- Joseph Campbell 

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You train people how to treat you. 

- Iyanla Vanzant

Act like you know and they shall follow. 

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If poetry does not come as easy as leaves to a tree, then it had better not come at all

- John Keats 

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You're your problem and you're also your solution.  

 -Bridesmaids 

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And let your beauty once again engage the courage of a heart to start a fresh.

-Leonard Cohen 

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Love is a shelter. Love is a cause. Love goes on forever. Yeah, love will lead us all..

- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros "That's What's Up" 

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The noblest art is  that of making others happy. 

- P.T. Barnum 

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If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

-Rumi 

 

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A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

- Soren Kierkrgaard 

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I am likely to miss the main event, if I stop to cry or complain again. So I will keep a deliberate pace..

- Fiona Apple "Better Version of Me" 

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Love is one. It has no separate parts and no degrees; no kinds nor levels, no divergencies and no distinctions. 

- ACIM 

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"When it's dark and I'm all alone, and I'm scared and freaking out or whatever, I always think 'What would Buffy do?'...you're my hero."

- Xander Harris 

*I have many sheroes and one of them used this quote in her email signature reminding me how awesomely obsessed with Buffy I used to be back in my cheerleading days.  

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You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. 

-C.S. Lewis 

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"The ultimate goal is to be happy. If you want to be happy, make somebody else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, then become the right person. If you want to see change in the world, then become the change in the world….There’s no social transformation in the absence of personal transformation."

-Deepak Chopra 

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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. 

                                                                                             - Carrie Fisher  

Believe That!

I don't generally take the advice I'm given, whether or not I asked for it. Usually it's because it doesn't resonate with my soul, and I've always been the kind of person who doesn't believe something's hot until my hand is on fire. Being that I usually dismiss the advice I'm given, answering this week's burning question "What's your favorite piece of advice that you've been given?" has proved to be a bit more daunting than it should be. I mean seriously, my mom, my dad, my grandparents, friends, co-workers and love interests have all given me tons of solicited and unsolicited advice I just couldn't recall anything they've said if you told me my life depended on it. (Sorry guys, I check out of most of what you say unless it hits a deep spot in my soul other than that I follow my own internal advice. Unless it's what to do when I'm sick or something. )

Well, since my memory is failing me when it comes to advice I've been given I can say the best piece of advice I've ever heard comes courtesy of Dr. Maya Angelou, she who knows why the caged bird sings. And it goes a little something like this, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them." Now Dr Angelou didn't tell me this herself obviously, but I have had my mom and my therapist repeat this to me more times than I care to count because I have a habit of expecting things from people that goes totally against their nature. I have friends that I expect to stop being self centered for 5 minutes when I know they are incapable of talking about anything but themselves, I expect people to be rational and logical that I know are incapable of being either one of those things and I expect my brother to be more like me when I know he's ok as he is despite never being able to be as awesome as I am--heehee. Time and time again, people show me how to deal with them and time and time again I set myself up for failure but setting my expectations well about their behaviors. That is until I realized how peaceful my life could be if I stopped expecting anything from people, especially the ones that show me what they can and can't handle.

So next time someone gets cray-cray on you remember they are showing you they are undiagnosed so treat them accordingly.

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I don't claim to know much, except as soon as you start to make room for the parts that aren't you it gets harder to bloom in a garden of love, love, love, love. 

- Sara Barielles "Bottle It Up" 

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Two fish have a relationship because of the ocean. They can’t get water from each other, but they can swim in it together. Individuals can’t really get love from each other, but they can swim in it together.

via Super Soul Sunday