Be Yourself Despite What Others Think

 

I am what I am, if you don't like me, turn your head, and walk away, simple as that.

Being who you are isn't something that you should have to debate about with any of your so called "friends". When a person tries to dictate your thoughts, your opinions, your words, your style, and everything else that makes you unique, you have to realize that they honestly have no desire to see who you are as a person, blossom. Those who don't like you may at times try to tell you how to live your life, and may pass judgment on you, but in the end it is only the judgment from God that truly matters.

Don't allow yourself to live your life trying to make everyone like you, and trying to please people who you will never please. Keep it simple, and give time to those who give you respect and love, instead of the ones whose intentions are out of nothing more than hate, jealousy and spite.

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Don't judge me by my past, I don't live there anymore.

Too many times we get so caught up in where we used to be, how ashamed we are of whom we used to be, and the things that we used to commit ourselves to, that we feel as though we have to prove that we aren't who we used to be anymore.

 
  

I am strong. I am beautiful. I am loved. I am healthy. I am smart. I need to remind myself not everything is so bad a little more often.

Who are you? How do you define yourself? Don't think of yourself as what everyone thinks of you as, think of yourself as a person of royalty, a person of importance, because in all actuality, you are!

 
  

Itll cost nothing to dream, and everything not to.

If you never dream, then what in this world will you advance to? There can be nothing that happens great in your life, if you never allow for yourself to dream. A tragedy isn't not fulfilling your dreams by the time you pass, but instead one of the biggest tragedies that occurs on a regular basis is people passing without even dreaming,

 
  

 If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

The way that we think directly affects and correlates with every other aspect of our lives. If we choose to think negatively we will speak negatively, look like we are negative people, and will also live a negative life. Stop yourself abruptly when you feel yourself about to complain. Do anything that you can to stop yourself from getting into a negative state, because when you do, like any other state, you have a great chance of falling further and deeper into this negative emotional state.

  

Make mistakes, take chances, be silly, be imperfect, trust yourself and follow your heart.

Making mistakes is inevitable in everyone's life. We all make mistakes, and we all go through things that we wish we didn't have to go through, because of bad choices we have made. Mistakes aren't bad at all, unless we continue to make the same mistake over and over again.
  

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The Difference Between a Good Friend And a Best Friend

 

A good friend knows all your best stories, a best friend has lived them with you. See the difference?

A best friend is someone that we should all hold on to, and cherish for as long as we possibly can. There are some people in our lives that may know us, and there are some people that are in your life that just "get" you.

A real friend is someone that will be there for you, and expect nothing in return but your love and loyalty when they are at their lowest points. A friend will be there to comfort you, laugh with you, let you lean on them when you are feeling weak, and most importantly, they will always be there to help pick you up when you fall. A real friend is honest, truthful, respectful, and in sync with who you are as a person, instead of who they want you to be, or expect for you to be.

Real best friends know that you aren't perfect and dont ask you to be, all a real friend will ask you for is to be a real friend back when they need one.

 
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Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest it's about who came, and never left your side.

Your truest friends are the ones who will always be there for you, no matter what happens, and who will never leave your side. A real friend knows you at your deepest levels and whether they agree with you or not, they will commit to always being there for you when you are truly down, even when it is least convenient for them to do so.
 
  

 The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Everyone needs room to grow, and if we stay the same our whole lives then in fact there is something wrong. In growing up, we have to grow separately so that we can grow into our full spiritual bodies. Finding yourself is necessary for sustaining happiness in your life, and any true friend with good intentions will know that.

  

 Friends pick us up when we fall down, and if they can't pick us up, they lie down and listen for a while.

A great friend is a friend that will be there for you when you need for them to be. Before you can really know what a true friend should be to you, you have to be willing to learn about yourself. What standards do you have for your own life, what is acceptable in your eyes, and what do you expect that others do in relation to certain situations that may pertain to you. You also have to realize that not everyone will believe in the same guidelines for their lives that you may, and at some point in your life, you will have to compromise to make sure that you may maintain a relationship.
 
  

 Spend life with who makes you happy, not who you have to impress.

When we do things over and over again even though we know for a fact that they don't work, chances are you will never achieve the things in life that you want to, and this applies to every aspect of our lives, including our relationships.

  

 Real friends are always going to be there by your side, even at times when you tell them to leave.

If you already have a real friend in your life, then you know that through thick, and through thin, they will always be there for you. Not to judge you, or to tell you that they tried to warn you before, not to bring you down, or kick you while your down, but instead to help pick you up when you fall, or to sit with you and help talk you into getting back up.
  

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Sometimes The Best Thing To Say Is Nothing

 

Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing; some people are not even worth your words.

Sometimes people will have their own preconceived notions about you, what you believe in, and what you do, before you ever get the chance to show them, and because of this, nothing that you can do or say will prove to them otherwise. This lesson is a hard lesson to learn through life, because some of us desire to go through life in the hopes of being able to help as many people as we possibly can by showing them light.

Stop trying with the people that you know in your heart will never receive it. Some people just put up a brick wall, and desire to see nothing but the light in you fade away, because they have trouble getting people to see the light in them. There are so many other people's lives that can be changed, with so much less time! Don't get down on yourself when others refuse to receive what you have to say, or refuse to accept what you believe. Continue to push on through life giving words of hope to those who are worth them, those who will receive them.

 
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I am what I am, if you don't like me, turn your head, and walk away, simple as that.

Being who you are isn't something that you should have to debate about with any of your so called "friends". When a person tries to dictate your thoughts, your opinions, your words, your style, and everything else that makes you unique, you have to realize that they honestly have no desire to see who you are as a person, blossom. Those who don't like you may at times try to tell you how to live your life, and may pass judgment on you, but in the end it is only the judgment from God that truly matters.
 
  

 Even one small drop can make a ripple in the water, and one small decision can affect your life in the simplest way.

The decisions that we make on a daily basis are the decisions that make our legacies, if we are even making one at all. Are you deciding to become better each day? Do you continually raise your standards, and set the bar higher and higher for yourself as each day comes to you? Or do you follow the same routine daily, and sit and wait for something in life to come to you, to change your life?
 
  

 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Once you are able to be truthful with yourself, and everyone else around you, you are finally able to live your life. Trying to live life, untruthfully will only lead a person in circles instead of leading them forward.

  

 Bad decisions make great stories.

We are all guilty of making some bad decisions in our lives. No one is perfect, and no one is all knowing besides the Almighty God. It is important not to focus on the decisions we made in the past that we now know have faults, but instead it is most important that we try to learn from what we have been through so that we make better decisions as each day goes forward.
 
  

 I am strong. I am beautiful. I am loved. I am healthy. I am smart. I need to remind myself not everything is so bad a little more often.

Who are you? How do you define yourself? Don't think of yourself as what everyone thinks of you as, think of yourself as a person of royalty, a person of importance, because in all actuality, you are!

  

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Saturday December 22nd 2012

Thought for the Day

“Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough,
but it’s worse when they are wearing dark glasses
and have streamers in their antlers
because then you know
they were enjoying themselves at a party
when they were shot.”

~ Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedian, film actress, television host and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. She has won thirteen Emmys and numerous other awards for her work and charitable efforts. In November 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton named her a Special Envoy for Global AIDS Awareness. source

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Learning How To Let Go

 

I thought watching you leave was hard. But knowing you weren't coming back was harder.

Have you ever had to watch someone leave out of your life that you wish didn't? Many of us have gone through this, and if you haven't yet, you will someday. Sometimes life just doesn't play fair, and people leave from our lives that we wish to the deepest pits of our hearts, didnt have to.

We have to be willing to learn how to let go! Not everything in life lasts forever. Take the lessons that you learned from dealing with each person that you have come to know in your life, and be sure to use them for the future relationships that you maintain. If you allow it to, the pain that you feel today will build the character of the person you are tomorrow. Continue to push forward, grow as yourself, and to learn from the mistakes of the past, so that problems won't present themselves again to you without you knowing how to handle them.

 
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It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.

Sometimes we try to hold on to relationships that just aren't meant to last in our lives because we don't want to feel like we are going to lose out on the investment of our time, and the investment of all of the love that we gave to someone that we thought in our minds we would have around for a lifetime.

  

 Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

Are the relationships you involved in today helping to build you up, or helping to build you down? There are many things in life that do nothing but take away from who we are; yet we still continue to indulge ourselves in them, because we fear change.
 
  

 It's hard to hold on to something that you know would never be yours in any way you think of. You just have to learn to let go and face the fact that while good things never last, some don't even start.

Learning to let go is one of the hardest lessons that we must learn, and some of us are able to master it, while others arent so well. Going through a break up can be a destructive experience in your life, or a constructive experience in your life,if you allow for it to be a new beginning.
 
  

 Never lose yourself while trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you.

One of the biggest mistakes we can make in life is to lose ourselves in a relationship by trying to become someone that other people want us to be. If you have to change who you are to make a relationship work, your relationship will fail anyway. Either you wont really be happy inside of it, because you can't think or act as yourself, or the other person you are trying to appease wont be happy because you aren't enough of the person that they want you to be.

  

 It doesn't make sense to let go of something you have wanted for so long, but it also doesn't make sense to hold on when theres nothing there.

One of the worst mistakes a person can make is to hold on to a relationship in which the other person just refuses to be present. We have to be willing to let go of relationships that dont make any sense.
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You Are Confined Only By The Walls You Build Yourself

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself. So many of us are so confined in life by the walls that we build up in our own minds, and in our own convictions led by what society accepts and disapproves of.

As a homeless, and single father of a young boy, with a wife who left him because she was scared of how unstable their lives were at the time, one man made it over some of life's greatest walls, and became a successful millionaire, entrepreneur, and motivational life figure for people across the world. The story of people like Chris Gardner (who was later played by Will Smith in a biographical piece about his life) isn't just an inspiration, it is a testament to all.

If people with everything stacked against them can still make their dreams come true, then why cant you? Tear down the walls, and quit confining yourself to such a limited life! The world is yours, go and get your dreams!

 

A good friend knows all your best stories, a best friend has lived them with you. See the difference?

A best friend is someone that we should all hold on to, and cherish for as long as we possibly can. There are some people in our lives that may know us, and there are some people that are in your life that just "get" you.
 

  

I am what I am, if you don't like me, turn your head, and walk away, simple as that.

Being who you are isn't something that you should have to debate about with any of your so called "friends". When a person tries to dictate your thoughts, your opinions, your words, your style, and everything else that makes you unique, you have to realize that they honestly have no desire to see who you are as a person, blossom. Those who don't like you may at times try to tell you how to live your life, and may pass judgment on you, but in the end it is only the judgment from God that truly matters.

  

Sometimes the best thing to say is nothing; some people are not even worth your words.

Sometimes people will have their own preconceived notions about you, what you believe in, and what you do, before you ever get the chance to show them, and because of this, nothing that you can do or say will prove to them otherwise. This lesson is a hard lesson to learn through life, because some of us desire to go through life in the hopes of being able to help as many people as we possibly can by showing them light.

  

 Even one small drop can make a ripple in the water, and one small decision can affect your life in the simplest way.

The decisions that we make on a daily basis are the decisions that make our legacies, if we are even making one at all. Are you deciding to become better each day? Do you continually raise your standards, and set the bar higher and higher for yourself as each day comes to you? Or do you follow the same routine daily, and sit and wait for something in life to come to you, to change your life?

  

 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

Once you are able to be truthful with yourself, and everyone else around you, you are finally able to live your life. Trying to live life, untruthfully will only lead a person in circles instead of leading them forward.

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Bad Decisions Make Great Stories

We are all guilty of making some bad decisions in our lives. No one is perfect, and no one is all knowing besides the Almighty God. It is important not to focus on the decisions we made in the past that we now know have faults, but instead it is most important that we try to learn from what we have been through so that we make better decisions as each day goes forward.

If we also learn why we made the bad decisions we made then we will be even more likely to not make the same types of decisions again. Was it because you were attempting to avoid some type of pain or fear? What were you feeling in this moment of weakness, and how can you move forward in your life without making the same type of decision or better yet, how can you make it so that you move forward without even putting yourself in the same type of position again?

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