You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell. ―Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears Public Domain Image via Pixabay
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Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
It is easy to say I am thankful for the sweet and beautiful things in life: flower gardens, ice cream cones, diamond rings, dances under moonlight, children’s laughter, birdsongs, and the like. The challenge is recognizing things of value in the dark, sour, uglier parts of life. But if you look hard enough, you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
Quote for Today: Brené Brown
The reckoning is how we walk into our story; the rumble is where we own it. The goal of the rumble is to get honest about the stories we're making up about our struggles, to revisit, challenge, and reality-check these narratives. ―Brené Brown, Rising Strong Image: Ethiopian Fisherman's Struggle © Mat Rumi with CCLicense
Quote for Today: Eleanor Roosevelt
The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you … Continue reading Quote for Today: Eleanor Roosevelt
Quote for Today: Wade Davis
The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit. If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite – the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singularly generic modern culture that takes for … Continue reading Quote for Today: Wade Davis
Quote for Today: Stephen Batchelor
By identifying with a craving ('I want this," "don't want' that"), you tighten the clutch and intensify its resistance. Instead of being a state of mind that you have, it becomes a compulsion that has you. As with understanding anguish, the challenge in letting go of craving is to act before habitual reactions incapacitate us. … Continue reading Quote for Today: Stephen Batchelor
Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
If you couldn't sense heat, you'd not be alive. And if that heat never grew uncomfortable, you would never move. And if you were stagnant—unchallenged by unpredictable flares—you would never grow capable of shielding yourself from harsher flames. So yes, life was meant to drag you straight through the fire. ―Richelle Goodrich, Making Wishes Image: … Continue reading Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
