#life-lessons

"To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God."

"A child fish asks mother fish, 'Mother, why cannot we live on the Earth?' Mother fish replied, 'Dear… it is not the place for fish, it is the place for selfish"

"You do not give your precious body to the billy clubs of Birmingham sheriffs, nor to the insidious activity of the streets."

"It doesn't matter where your journey begins, so long as you begin it..."

"I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a confidence that everything you’re doing and everything you’ve done is the way it’s supposed to be."

"You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship"

"Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue)."

"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."

"An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters."

"I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself."

"If not in the moment, where do you propose to live?"

"Every comforting word is a command from a man of action...While every word of command is commotion from a man of just words..."

"YOU. ARE. PERFECT. You are. Im talking to YOU. and dont you dare think otherwise...embrace the entity of yourself...you are a puzzle piece and you are meant to be puzzling."

"Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast."

"You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals."

"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."

"We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking."

"If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution."

"Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing."

"Appreciate every little beautiful moment in every day of your life. Give it a try and you'll see the world from another perspective."