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If you are waiting for the perfect moment to finally start living you will wait yourself into an early grave. My words may seem harsh but that doesn’t make them untrue. I do not say them with carelessness or arrogance I say them with love and determination. I am determined to see you start living. Start trying. Start believing.
You are alive. You woke up this morning to a brand new day. You have twenty four hours to do something other than wait. You can learn something. You can help someone. You can create anything and everything you keep dreaming about so earnestly. You are alive to live. To tell your story. To fill the days with questions and answers. Love and laughter. Joy and wholeness. Light and warmth. I don’t want to see anymore blank pages in your book of life because you are waiting for the perfect moment, the perfect words, the perfect life. They do not exist. Perfection does not exist on this earth or in any person. Stop waiting for something that you cannot ever find. Start living and discovering all the imperfectly beautiful treasures that this world has to offer.
Start trying.
You are scared. You are shaking and sweating from your fears and your doubts. Okay. Be scared. Sweat and shake from the fears and doubts but don’t let that be all you ever do. Do it afraid. Take a step in faith and work through the fears and doubts until you conquer each one. And yes, you can be set free from every single fear and doubt keeping you imprisoned. The key has always been there. Some call it courage, some willpower, and others faith. If you need help trust that help is here. Help will come. Help will find you. But you’ve got to start trying. Stop waiting till tomorrow. Stop making lists you just throw in a box and never look at again. Stop with the excuses of all the reasons why it’s impossible. Stop hiding from those dreams and adventures you are passionate about. You literally will never know if you never try.
Start believing.
It won’t matter who else believes in you if you do not believe in yourself. If you do not see your own potential, value, talent, significance.. You need to have faith in yourself in order to try and to live. You need to wake up and believe you have something to offer this world, because you do. You need to believe that you are a valuable, capable, intelligient, and loved human being, because you are. You need to believe that you can learn what you don’t know, because you can. You need to believe that people will offer you a hand and teach you, because they will. You need to believe in the possibility of your life. Of your story that is being written even as you sit there waiting on the sidelines.
Get off that deceptively comfy bench and enter the land of the living. The place that belongs to you as much as it belongs to me or anyone for that matter. This world needs you. People here need you. They need your smile. Your voice. Your hug. Your point of view. Your story. You have the ability to add light into someone’s life. You have the opportunity to add some good and hope into this world. How could you be meaningless? How could you ever not matter?
You go through each day as if you have forever to figure it out. Forever to change what needs to be changed. Forever to make things right. Forever to deal with the wounds. Forever to take off the mask. Forever to forigve. Forever to live. You will die. You will die one day. And I hope and pray that in that last breath you can leave knowing I lived. I gave. I tried. I loved. I believed. I lived…
Stop waiting.
Start living.
Start trying.
Start believing.
Baby steps my dear. Tiny little movements of progress…
Why don’t you take one today and start living, trying, and believing in your book of life?
What are you still waiting for?
Today might not be the perfect day, but nonetheless it is still a day that you have…
"— ~~Acoustic Imagery~~ (via bealightinthedark)
"Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more―to be richer, more beautiful, more well known―you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come."
— Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith (via simply-quotes)
(Source: simply-quotes, via believeinrecovery)
"I discovered that when I believed my thoughts, I suffered, but that when I didn’t believe them, I didn’t suffer, and that this is true for every human being. Freedom is as simple as that. I found that suffering is optional. I found a joy within me that has never disappeared, not for a single moment. That joy is in everyone, always"
— Byron Katie (via believeinrecovery)
(via anxietyjustapassenger)
"Stop trying to ‘get it together’. The biggest lie we’re told when we’re growing up is that soon as we’re adults, as soon as we’re in college, finish college, get that job, have that steady income, find that someone special, ‘find ourselves’, find that perfect house, get that retirement fund, have those children, everything will fall into place. Here’s a secret: it won’t. Every new development in your life, good or bad, big or small, will come with its own very special set of challenges. The sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be."
— Unknown (via creatingaquietmind)
(Source: onlinecounsellingcollege, via creatingaquietmind)
"It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless."
— L.R. Knost (via creatingaquietmind)
(Source: hopefullyraw, via creatingaquietmind)
I’ve finally accepted that these people get what true happiness and love are.
I seriously love this family. They don’t care what anyone looks like. They just find beauty and make the best of any situation. I love it.
^ True dat!
(Source: judgesontoddlersandtiaras, via chubby-bunnies)
Nein nein nein nein nein nein Jungs aufhören! Alleine wie Illy ihn boxt! Und sie sich freuen! Ah! Ilbert!
oh mein gott, scheiße ich find das süß.oh, oh man das ist richtig süß. ich …. oh nein.
mist, jetzt killt mich zitronenfaltermaedchen
(Source: wangxiangzhidi)
"Do something today that your future self will thank you for."
— Unknown (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
(via psych-facts)
| Myth no.1 - When I am skinny, I will like my body: | When you accept your body for all its wonderful quirks and imperfections, you will like your body. |
| Myth no.2 - Losing weight will make me happy: | Following your dreams, surrounding yourself with people you love and appreciate and forgiving yourself and others will make you happy. |
| Myth no.3 - A healthy lifestyle means working out every day and never eating bad food: | No food is bad, and a healthy lifestyle is doing what's good for your heart as well as what's good for your body. Even if that means lying in bed all day and eating chocolate sometimes. |
| Myth no.4 - All thin girls love their bodies: | Every person, no matter what they look like, has their insecurities. Embrace your own, and know that you are not alone. |
| Myth no.5 If I eat x, y or z and follow x, y or z celebrity's workout regime I will look like them: | No. No matter how you eat or how long you spend in the gym, you will look like you at whatever weight you are at. You can't replicate another human being's body in your own. |
| Myth no.6 - It's always unhealthy to have a bmi above 25: | BMI scales were invented for the convenience of insurance companies, not as an accurate measure of health. Your healthy weight is determined by your body type, composition, lifestyle and diet, not by a made up chart. |
| Myth no.7 - If I was smaller, I could wear a bikini and short shorts and strapless dresses: | You can wear whatever you like, whether you wear it in a size 0 or a size 14. Your beauty is not defined by the clothes you wear. |
| Myth no.9 - I can solve my problems using my body: | You have to look deeper - your problems do not stem from the circumference of your thighs or the amount of fat on your stomach. They are deeper than that, and the solution lies deeper than that as well. |
