Uplifting quotes & Inspiring Thoughts

I'm proud of the scars in my soul.
They remind me that I have an intense life
- Paulo Coelho

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

"There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind" - C.S Lewis

There are times to give and times to receive. This time in receiving you can still give just as much but even more later on because you gave yourself a chance.

If you cannot give when you're poor, how can you give when you're rich

It takes courage and commitment to act in a more forgiving fashion. It is not at all a sign of weakness but a mark of strength.

- CarlThorenson

?Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.?~Henry David Thoreau

The Mind is Everything. What you think, you become." -Buddha

"Don't curse the darkness.

Light a candle."

I want to be around people that do things. I don?t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.
-- Amy Poehler