La Beauté de la Vie

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca.

“Expectations are resentments under construction,” Anne Lamott

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

“Learn the art of saying no. Don’t lie. Don’t make excuses, don’t over-explain yourself. Just simply decline.” – Unknown

Trials and suffering can actually refine and deepen gratefulness if we allow them to show us not to take things for granted

Sometimes you have to be your own hero.

How do we help our hearts to grow? Like the river and the ocean that are big and has the capacity to transform so too should our heart.

"Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you." ~ Ralph Marston

“SILENCE IS GOLDEN WHEN YOU CAN’T THINK OF A GOOD ANSWER.”-MUHAMMAD ALI

We anxiously attend to a million things around us often failing to see what is right in front of us.

Journaling allows you to get “outside” your head, in a sense. It enables you to get your thoughts and feelings down on paper, analyze those thoughts and feelings, and then work through them in a healthy, holistic way.

Too often we underestimate our actions and forget that they can be more impactful than we realize.

"Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful." — Jim Carrey

“A cactus doesn’t live in the desert because it likes the desert; it lives there because the desert hasn’t killed it yet.” —‌ Hope Jahren

Today give yourself permission to wipe your slate clean. Never forget that it is ok to start over.

When you want to reach your goal, the journey won’t always be a smooth ride. Therefore, you must work to overcome all hurdles. Remember that the obstacle is the way!

« Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it. Yet, it is only when a man is able, without bitterness or self-pity, to surrender a dream he has long cherished or a privilege he has long possessed that he is set free » James Baldwin

Wu wei refers to the cultivation of a state of being in which our actions are quite effortlessly in alignment with the ebb and flow of the elemental cycles of the natural world. It is a kind of “going with the flow” that is characterized by great ease and awareness, in which—without even trying—we’re able to respond perfectly to whatever situations arise.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that. David Goggins

The proverb patience is a virtue means that it is a good quality to be able to tolerate something that takes a long time

“The commitment of giving your best at all times, in all city and under all conditions, can enable you to find value in, and lend values to, every experience” John Templeton

Wabi-sabi is a concept that motions us to constantly search for the beauty in imperfection and accept the more natural cycle of life. It reminds us that all things including us and life itself, are impermanent, incomplete, and imperfect. Perfection, then, is impossible and impermanence is the only way.

“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." Hal Borland

That person has lost their children: you too, can lose yours; that person received sentence of death: your innocence too, stands under the hammer. This is the fallacy that takes us in and makes us weak while we suffer misfortunes that we never foresaw that we could suffer. The person who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive. - Seneca, Consolation to Marcia