Inspiration #24- Courage

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So this is another of the great quotes I came across in searching for a motivation tool towards my ultimate goal of wellness. That doesn't mean dieting or getting rid of all my belongings, rather it is a goal towards happiness and serenity. Inner peace balanced with the means to better handle stress and problems that may come about. I am in great need of peace in my life. I am tired of living for the urgent, rather I want to be able to know what an emergency is and how to handle those things quickly and with ease. As opposed to the urgent things that mask themselves as emergencies. I am hoping to cast aside fear and go for the entire lifestyle change. It's not an easy thing to do, especially for me, being I can't stand change. But acceptance of that and the willingness to change what I can. I need to just jump in and remember what is important to me.

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.”

This is one of the things that, I feel can help better me on my journey towards wellness. I hope to remember this on all those tough decisions I need to make along the way. Life is a journey, I just hope to LIVE it the way it was intended to be lived. Through love, joy, curiosity, and wonder. Not through fear and emptiness for not having "gone for it!" I want, no need, to have the courage in my life to live!

Inspiration #23- Character

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Sometimes things remind me of the things that are important to me and in life. Character is a huge part of life and it's all defining. I enjoy having good conversations with good people. I don't deem people to be good or not good, only they can do that for themselves. I am a new-ish mom, my son is going to be 3 very soon. One thing I hope to instill upon him, is the value of good character, doing the right thing, even if it doesn't benefit you. Being honest and true. To have those things, good character is a must. I found this quote and thought how very accurate this was and decided to share it with you. Again, as I've mentioned previously, I am on a big kick to change my life. Part of that means finding things that motivate and inspire me. This quote brought back to me many of my feelings on life.

“The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.”

I don't know about you, but this really meant a lot to me. Because if I had to choose a way to explain character, I think I would definitely use this as a very clear obvious way to show what it means. I believe fully & have said many times, you ALWAYS treat people right, no matter who you think they are. You just never know. Every person is important. Regardless of a persons appearance, dress, stature { monetary or otherwise..}, age, gender, etc.. Always, always be good to people. It shows your character. And after all, character is quite important. I found this a very inspirational quote because it mirrors my own belief on the subject.

Inspiration #22- Self-Improvement

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As I'v been missing in action for a VERY VERY long time due to some personal concerns, I decided to resume posting here. Even though I've no real hope of making my deadline, I still want to strive for a more full blog. I have recently decided to change things up in my life, and as a part of that, returning to this site makes much sense. I am all about intentional living and becoming more so in all aspects of my life. I hope to find enough inspiration and motivation to once again tackle this project and complete it fully, despite being set overzealously. I came across some quotes that I find fitting and I wanted to share them here.
The quote that helped me to realize I needed to return and resume my quest here is this one:

“The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”

I felt compelled to hold true to this, because I truly believe that this is how I need to live my life. I have always believed this, never saw this quote before today however. I don't know who to attribute it to, but it rings true in my mind. I WANT to be better. I am always looking for ways to be better, to become better, to better myself. Before I can do that, I must first start competing against myself again. Because tomorrow, I expect to be better than today. With luck, that makes sense to people other than myself. 

Inspiration #19 - Lovely Lace

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How lovely and intricate and delicate and truly feminine. Lace is one of those beautiful things, that people spend hours, days, weeks, months, etc working with love on. To those of you who make it, thank your for your countless hours of dedication and hard work! It is well worth it. Lace is one of those pretty details that can be cute, pretty, sexy, sensual, it has so many facets. Lace is one of those things we replicate from nature, the way light filters through trees and plants, the way we peek up at the sky through the leaves of trees. The way it simulates the webs of spiders. Apparently, I am not the only one to think so.

"I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin." ~ Coco Chanel

And just for giggles, while I was surfing the web for things relating to lace. I came across this pair of quotes:


""It is difficult to see why lace should be so expensive; it is mostly holes" ~ Mary Wilson Litle
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"Yes, but have you any idea how hard it is to get those holes to stick together!"~ A response from an English costumer.

Silly, I know, but I thought adding something a little light and airy would be fitting for this subject!

Inspiration #15- Remembering to Dream

Sounds so simple, but it seems all too easily we forget.

I've had my share of difficulty remembering this because, as I sleep I rarely dream. And when I do, it's almost never good. So I've got to remind myself that if sleeping dreams do not come, I need to think more of lucid dreaming. Whatever it was I wanted all my life some how escapes me more times than not. Yet, I am married to the man I love, I have a wonderful, albeit crazy, son. So far, majority of my dreams have come true. I still want for a larger family, a house of my own, some place I can create an oasis of the things I love. I want my own castle of a home, a place that can be changed as we need it to be. But the dream? Right now I have no idea what that is. So I thought this was a good quote to help remind myself, if no-one else, dream. Because if you can dream, you can turn your dreams into wishes, wishes into goals, goals into success and finally, success of the dream into reality.

Inspiration #14 - Beholding What We See

Mirrors to the soul. Pretty graphic I found online.

Sometimes the most beautiful thing to me is looking into my son's eyes as he looks up at me. He's so full of wonder and curiosity. Funny I love to look at him while he's sleeping and his eyes are closed, but I can still tell how he sleeps from the amount of peace and serenity I find in his eyes. Eyes are one of the absolute first things I notice about a person, animal, creature. They can tell and hide so much. I am one that believes in the saying that eyes are the window to the soul. There are so many wonderful quotes out there about eyes, I thought I'd let some of them do the talking for me!

“The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.” ~ Auguste Rodin

“The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination awake.” ~ Leonardo da Vinci

“My eyes are an ocean in which my dreams are reflected.” ~ Author Unknown

“There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.” ~ G. K. Chesterton

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” ~ Henri Bergson

“Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.” ~ Pablo Picasso

“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are so many more of these wonderful quotes that I could go on forever! There can be so much said in a simple look, love and anger, sympathy and compassion. They shed tears of joy and sadness, express pain and elation. Eyes have this mystery about them. Sometimes what they are not telling is more telling than words on lips. We can find comfort and peace or trepidation through someone's eyes. You can find smiles and laughter in someone's eyes. Sometimes you can see their whole lives without speaking a word. I had to pick eyes as an inspiration because there are precious few things in this world that do so much by just being what they are.

Inspiration #7 - Little Things

It is all about the little things, isn't it?!

I found this quote online some place, and I fell in love with it! How true is this? I know that we all know this, but it doesn't hurt to remind ourselves every now and again. Take time to enjoy some of the simplicities during the day, sometimes things don't seem as rough. The little things can be some of the best things in
life! I love the sound of my baby laughing, or watching him play with his daddy. Going outside in the rain to watch the water or play in the puddles. Buying a gift for someone for no specific reason, just because ( the best reason in the world! ).

Progression from something small!


~ Small doesn't feel so small after all!