I have a collection of poems, quotes, and writings that I’ve collected over the years. I’ve always loved and appreciated the beauty of how words are constructed and the feelings it produces within – some have inspired me, some have broken my heart, and others have mirrored the reflection within my own soul. Here are 3 I want to share with you today:
I love this piece because of the clever sentence structure and the usage of words – encompassing both pain and hope, beauty, truth, and grace.
This piece makes me look within myself to find the truths to the profound questions he asks. His choice of words are intentional and powerful.
There’s so much love, simplicity, and innocence in this one – to see and say it as it is to the one we deeply love. And perhaps, for our own need for someone to say it back to us.
May we find beauty and truth in the most unexpected places this weekend, and may it set us free.
©2014 Susie Lee
Wisdom can often be found in the most unlikely places. Today I found it in Disney movies.
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
Sid Caesar
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach
We see things not as they are, but as we are.
H. M. Tomlinson
Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.
Japanese Proverb
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.
Jimmy Johnson
When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?
Sydney Harris
Don’t go through life, grow through life.
Eric Butterworth
Positive anything is better than negative thinking.
Elbert Hubbard
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
Oprah Winfrey
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.
Dennis P. Kimbro
Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
Matthew Keith Groves
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Prescott
The real opportunity for success lies within the person and not in the job.
Zig Ziglar
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Napoleon Hill
When we are no longer able to change a situation,
we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl
Change is inevitable. Progress is optional.
Tony Robbins.
Be smart enough to hold on, be brave enough to let go. Sometimes, we need to hold onto faith while letting go of the outcome. Open your hand and hold your dreams gently, don’t try to grab them.
Anonymous
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung.
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
Unknown.
I may not have gone where I intended to go,
but I think I’ve ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Anonymous
People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you.
But how strong you stand is what makes you.
Unknown.
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Zig Ziglar
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh
Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.
A. Bronson Alcott
If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.
Thomas Edison
A man who finds no satisfaction in himself will seek for it in vain elsewhere.
La Rochefoucauld
Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.
Swedish Proverb
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes
When in doubt, choose Love.
– Anonymous
Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
– Rumi
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host.
But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
– Maya Angelou
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
– Rumi
Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect.
It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
– Anonymous
The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty really are in ourselves.
– Kahlil Gibran
Find the guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or stay awake just to watch you sleep. The one who turns to his friends and says, “thats her”.
– Anonymous
Susie Lee 