To say that Oprah Winfrey has inspired millions, would be to understate the matter. She was America’s daily voice of personal exploration, growth, life’s journey for decades.
Even now, she continues to inspire Hope, purpose, and the search for meaning in life on her multiple platforms.
I love this Oprah quote. It contains so many nuggets for us. It counsels trying new and hard things. It prepares you for the inevitable setbacks in such attempts. It encourages determination and patience, it promises reward for your efforts.
Its power to inspire is enhanced because the words come from someone who created and lived that journey before all our eyes.
In a nutshell, this quote is the very embodiment of our journey to personal growth. We are here to do great things or “small things in great ways.,” as Dr. Martin Luther King said.
We will fave adversity, but if we don’t give up and give in, we will prevail in some meaningful way.
Wherever you are on your journey today, know you can. More than that, know if you don’t give up, you will.
Follow your bliss. Experience your bliss. Become your bliss.
Hello, my friends. I hope your Monday started your week on a good note.
The quote above reminds us that it’s free to believe in ourselves. The power of that simple act shifts moments, shifts days, shifts lives.
There are philosophies out there that literally discourage people from believing in themselves. It’s prideful, it’s selfish, it’s arrogant or narcissistic.
Taken to an extreme, it could become those things. The truth is most of us don’t suffer from too much belief in ourselves. We suffer from too little.
Don’t be afraid to put your foot on the gas of self-belief. You’ll know when it’s gone too far.
The second part of the quote reminds us of the consequences of failing to believe in ourselves. That cost everything- our hopes, our aspirations, our very progress along the path of lives is hindered.
So, buy into you. Buy into your dreams. Buy into the fact that your future can be much better than your present.
Wherever you are on your journey today, I believe in you!
There! Did you see it? There’s a miracle in progress. Where? Everywhere you look. The ants are building ant hills. Your heart is beating, beating, beating. The season is effortlessly changing again. The Earth goes around the Sun, as the Sun goes around the center of the galaxy. Everywhere you look, there’s a miracle.
You’ve heard the expression, “Don’t take your eye off the ball”. I think we should amend that to, “Don’t take your eye off the miracle.”
The moment you take your eye off the miracle, you begin to get into trouble. You start seeing “us” and “them”, “enough” and “not enough”, “future” and “past”, and you worry about all of it. Your worry turns into a soup of negative internal emotions that spill out into your world as unhappiness, anger, hatred, and even violence.
None of this is possible when you have your eye on the miracle. For in that vision of the world, you see how rare, precious, and amazing you are. You see how rare, precious and amazing everyone and everything around you is. We are all survivors, here in this place and time against overwhelming odds. Yet, here making our stand, being who we came here to be, and contributing our own uniqueness to the miracle.
So, when the moment gets you down today, remember the miracle. When you’re tempted fall into negativity and doubt, remember the miracle. It’s always right there, completely self-evident in every moment, if only you’ll look.
Follow your bliss. Experience your bliss. Become your bliss.
Good Saturday, dear reader. There’s no bigger myth out there than that we don’t have choices about how to see and interact with the world around us.
We most certainly do. These quotes may seem diverse, but they share this in common. They remind us to see the world through compassionate and inclusive eyes and ourselves as positive vehicles of change,
Working together, we can create a better world for ourselves and everyone else.
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