Life Aspirations Heavenly Outlook

“Only if you’ve been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.”  Richard Nixon “You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”   Thomas Merton Explore This Website

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” Robert Louis Stevenson The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis Explore This Website

"Normal day,  let me be aware of the treasure you are.   Let me learn from you, love you,  bless you before you depart.   Let me not pass you  by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.   Let me hold you while I may,  for it may not always be so.  One day I shall dig my nails into the earth,  or bury my face in the pillow,  or stretch myself taut,  or raise my hands to the sky and want,  more than all the world, your return."   ~Mary Jean Iron "There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day." ~Alexander Woollcott Explore This Website

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. Kahlil Gibran "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. We ask ourselves 'who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." Marianne Williamson Explore This Website

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.   Madeleine L'Engle Live for today,  but hold your hands open to tomorrow.  Anticipate the future  and its changes with joy.   There is a seed of God's love  in every event, every unpleasant situation in which you may find yourself.  Barbara Johnson Explore This Website