#in

I have learned to accept myself and rest in the fact that I am not defined by a scale or by someone else's expectations or by my past (and future) failures. Instead, I am defined by my loving heavenly Father, who declares me perfect in His sight and reminds me daily that I am limited only by my own perceptions. So I just need to stop giving so much attention and power to my fears and, instead, simply agree with what He already sees. ↗

— Michelle Aguilar

#perfect-in-his-sight #love

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black-poet #essayist #feminist #ny-laureate #teacher

True wisdom consists in respecting the simple things we do ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational

Best not to look back. Best to believe there will be happily ever afters all the way around - and so there may be; who is to say there will not be such endings? Not all boats which sail away into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teachers that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question. ↗

— Stephen King

#inspirational #inspirational

We're on the same boat but in different cabin ↗

— Hlovate

#wisdom #inspirational

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies. Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night. The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again. When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart. It is your immortal inspiration. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beginnings #bell #end #endings #fresh-start

. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore. ↗

— Rebecca Walker

#inspirational

Love doesn't erase the past, but it makes the future different. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#love #relationships #inspirational

All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure. ↗

— Rob Brezsny

#muse #inspirational

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step. ↗

— Matthew Stover

#inspirational