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Think Of All The Beauty Still Left Around You And Be Happy

Think of all the beauty still left around you & be happy.
Too many times in our lives we get too concerned with the things that we don't have to appreciate the things in life that we do have that make life the most beautiful.
Think of all of the beauty that is still left around you and be happy.

We have to remember that in life if there are no dark times, then we would never be able to see something as beautiful as the stars that shine above.
Appreciate everything that you go through in life, including the bad times, the times that you have to go without many of the things that you desire, the times that require you to work and to sacrifice without seeing much reward.
Also remember that everyday is a day that you can be a blessing to others, because blessing others is essentially what life is about. 
Remember that even if you feel you don't have much, there is always someone out there with less than you, be a blessing to them, and you will bless yourself as well.
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The Best Things In The World Cannot Be Seen Or Even Touched

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller
 
Life is full of many things, and many of the most important things in our lives stem from the things that we cant see with our natural eyes. Things like the choices that we are willing to make on a day-to-day basis, affect our lives greatly without us even seeing how. The way that we choose to dress may help us to gain recognition that we aren't even seeking consciously, or it may help to deter others from wanting to get to know us.

Other things in life that are very real to us that we can't see like love help to give our lives meaning on a day to day basis. Love makes us want to work harder in our everyday lives, love keeps us honest, and it helps us to think about the things that are actually important in life, instead of focusing on the parts of life that are solely negative.
Always remember the parts of life that make life real, because many times these are the things that we may feel, but that we cant see.
 
 
Entry #340

There Is No Rainbow Without Rain

Everyone wants a life without pain, but there is no rainbow without rain.
If there are never any storms in your life, then you must realize that you will never be able to appreciate the best that life has to offer in turn.
There are times in our lives when we are forced to face the bad. We must learn not only how to cope with being in a storm, but we must learn how to thrive in the storms that we face in life.

If we are willing to stop our progress, and submit to being defeated, instead of learning what it takes to overcome, we will never be able to fully appreciate life and what it has to offer. This poses a threat to everything inside of us that makes us great. With a lack of anything to work hard for, we won't, and with the lack of a need for diligence we will no longer have a dream to work towards.
Always remember that though there will be rain in your life, without the rain there wouldnt be anything as beautiful as a rainbow.
Entry #339

You Can't Please Everyone

You can't please everyone.
When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own.
One of the biggest lessons we must take with us in life to live as productively as intellectuals is that there will always be people in our lives who are jealous, or who just don't vibe with us, for whatever reason is inside of their heads. Instead of living a life seeking to please these types of people, by not being ourselves, and restraining from speaking up about things we know in our hearts we should speak up about, we have to give the people that we can't be ourselves around the delete button.

Don't be afraid to send people to your recycle bin in life, and be sure to empty it after a while. There is no good sense in keeping people around who only want you to be copycat versions of their selves. People who will twist up your words, or belittle the efforts you put forth in life as much as possible, are people that need to be eliminated from your life as much as possible. People like this have little interest in your well-being.
Entry #338

Let The Morning

                       
  • Seek Him while you sleep and offer Him the firstfruits of you lips and mind in the morning~ He alone is WORTHY.

Entry #337

Never Regret A Day


Never regret a day in your life.

Good days give you happiness and bad days give you experience.

Both are essential in life.

All are God's blessings.


We have all wasted time regretting things from our pasts. Regret is something that affects every single one of us, but in actuality it affects us all differently. Some of us are able to think about mistakes of the past, and take the lessons we learned from them into our futures to help provide ourselves with a much better life.

While some of us are never really able to get over the steep pain of the past, and never are really able to focus our energy on our futures until we learn we have to change our focus. If you can shift focus from rearview to front view, in a matter of time, you will change the direction of your life.

Entry #336

Psalms 19 14

May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight... Ps 19:14

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One must have a firm faith in following God

Learning Lessons From Your Past

 

The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle.
Choosing where you want to go in life is a result of a person deciding that one day, they are not necessarily defined for the rest of their lives by who they were in the past, and are instead judged by who they are now and where they may be going in life.
We have to continue to march on and make ourselves the best person we can become.
There will be those who will doubt, and who will judge based off of who we were before, and this can only be expected. If you remain adamant and diligent in becoming the person that you want to become, and about achieving the dreams that you want to achieve, everyone will soon understand why you made the life changes you made. One must have a firm faith in following God and everything he puts in our hearts and actually act on the dreams and desires that run to the deepest core of us and also knowing that everything else will fix itself over time.
Entry #329

Lets Be Real

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