Life is A Beautiful Struggle

{One.}

Never say goodbye, because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. 

         

{Two.} 

No one is in charge of your happiness but you; therefore, you can change any part of yourself or your life.

           

{Three.} All of our young lives, we search for someone to love, we choose partners, change partners. We dance to the song of heartbreak and hope all the while wondering if there’s someone, somewhere, searching for us. 

     

{Four.} Don’t force yourself to fall in love just because you think it’s your turn. Wait for a while, maybe cupids are having a hard time sarching for the heart that deserves the kind of love you can give.

       

{Six.} We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams. 

       

{Seven.} 

Have you ever reminisced on something in the past, thinking of every possible way you could have changed it, made it last, made it work? You spend your days waking up,  thinking about it, and going to bed thinking about it- hoping and praying that it will come back- nothing lasts forever. We go through our lives thinking about yesterday and not today. You’re in denial, heartache, regretting. We’re young, we’re reckless, and we’re alive. We make mistakes, we lose people we love and that’s just the way life works. Letting go isn’t being weak or giving up… Letting go is growing up.

                   

{Eight.} Life is about trusting your feelings, taking chances, losing and finding happiness, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

               

{Nine.}

Don’t worry if you’re single. God is looking at you right now, saying “I’m saving this one for someone special.”

          

{Ten.} I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil. That were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

            

{Eleven.}

People want to be liked. We all crave attention and affection and we all reject shame. When we get embarrassed, we send a thug version of ourselves to the forefront to do our fighting for us. We’re at the top of the food chain just under fear. We don’t want to be in a relationship to hear the words “I love you,” we want to be in a relationship to say the words “I love you.” We want to feel needed, and exceptional and we have to feel insignificant. We want to ace a hearing test. We are binary creatures; if we’re the plaintiff, we want to win every dollar. If we’re the defendant, we want to guard every penny. We want to make more money than last year. We don’t want to get cancer or die in our cars and we want the same for our loved ones. We go out on weekends to try to have fun. We’re desperate to be understood. We want to know someone else has felt it too. We hate being judged unfairly. We want to make the person we heard wasn’t all that into us change their minds  and admit that they had us wrong. We want sunny skies with a chance of killer tornadoes, just to keep music sounding good. We take hours upon hours to admit to self consciousness. We don’t know exactly how to pleasure each other. We just want love. In any and every form.

                        

{Twelve.}

Who do you want to be exactly like? Is there anybody in this world who’s laid down a template for your dreams and goals that you’d copy and paste over your own life’s story? Nobody’s life template will every lay evenly over yours. And in those times when they clash completely, you have to walk alone, with confidence that you’re creating your own template made out of your own instincts and your own dreams and your own goals. And if you do it long enough, maybe someone someday will look to yours as the life to model theirs after. Of course, some people won’t agree with them. It will all depend on who they ask.

              

{Thirteen.} Take a second out to think about this: in your life, you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone, you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one.

        

{Fourteen.}

God answers all prayers in three ways: “yes,” because you deserve it, “no,” because you deserve better, and “not yet,” because the best is yet to come.

       

{Fifteen.}

Growing up is never easy. You hold on to the things that were. You wonder what’s to come. But that night, I think we knew it was time to let go of what had been, and look ahead to what would be. Other days. New days. Days to come. The thing is, we didn’t have to hate each other for getting older. We just had to forgive ourselves for growing up.

                

{Sixteen.}

We all want to escape from our past and into a better future, but the world won’t change because you want it to. And sometimes, that’s not so bad.

                     

{Seventeen.}

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what people say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a heart, a future, a home. The remarkable thing is: we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

        

{Eighteen.} We become attached to what’s familiar and sometimes, we hold onto things that are safe and predictable even if they are bad for us. You aren’t some knight in shining armor. You’re just a guy who’s tired of being around the same type of girls and you hate it. You think that sucks? Why don’t you try being the one who has to wonder why all the people she loves don’t love her back.

                    

{Nineteen.} Don’t shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals and living your destiny.

{Twenty.} The truly beautiful thing about love is that it’s constantly changing and growing stronger every day. Love is resilient and does not run away at the first sight of trouble. No, love grips you by the soul and never lets go.