Consider not your losses,but the victories you have yet to achieve.

The more your struggles are,the sweeter also will be your success. 

Protect your vision. At times it is more important than your present accomplishments.

You have a dream. You may not know it yet,but it is there,

embedded in the deepest part of your heart.

live with no regrets!

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There is a whole galaxy within you,waiting to be unleashed.

Let the universe wait no more.

Be not afraid of your own beauty.

Shine forth your light and forget not who you really are.

Always reach towards the sacred center of your being.

Within it is always some hidden reserve of power.

 It is not enough that you know yourself and what you're worth.

You have to show the world who you really are.

You have a dream. You may not know it yet,but it is there,

embedded in the deepest part of your heart. 

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 I bare my nakedness to the world

that the world may see who I am, not the mask that hides my flaws,

not the mask that hides my beauty.

"I am blessed this moment, I am embraced, I surrender only to love."

"Let nothing frighten you whatsoever. You are a child of eternity." 

Never ever give up. There is no goal too difficult for those who believe in their destiny

Heaven is so much nearer than we often think it to be.

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"No road is too long, for him who dares to overcome."

"Miracles aren't made, they are but allowed and recognized!"

"You cannot resist anything,you can only surrender. To whom are you surrendering to?" 

"Always strive to be better,happier. It would make your loved ones happier as well."

Sometimes it is not our intentions that hurt others,but our insensitivity to the feelings of other people.

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A square leaf

A square fruit

A square tree

A square raindrop

Coming to think of it, nature, unlike man, does not produce

Square moons

Square suns

Square planets

Or square galaxies

There are no square rainbows

Nor square flowers

Nor square heads

that could fit inside a square box

Yet more often than not, that's exactly what we do.

We try to put everything inside a box

We try to make all things black and white

We try to make everything spic and span

as though we could put a square peg inside a round hole

and  then congratulate ourselves for the feat we have done

Since the dawn of man-made technology,

we have certainly lived in a world of squares:

square houses

square buildings

square computer screens

We write on square papers using square tables

We sleep on square beds and enter upon square doors

Where has all these taken us?

These square things have made a war with our own hearts

And against all mysteries that enrich and empower us

The next time someone tries to put your immortal soul inside a small box

Kindly remind yourself:

There are no square stars in the Universe.

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In real life however, how often do we see ourselves being the stars in our own movies?  Do we realistically see ourselves when we see only our own faults and judge ourselves harshly if we fail to keep up with other people's expectations?  Do we feel bad thinking we could never be the perfect person to match the ones we dream about?

Think again.  See yourself starring in your own movie.  You may not need to be perfect after all.  You only need to be human, and to believe you can be loved for who you  are.  You only need to be YOU!

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Then one moment, a single remark gets at you and all your dreams are torn into pieces.  At that moment, you went so far back just when you thought you were making progress.  You've climbed so hard just to slip away and see all your efforts turn to waste.

Yet was that really what had happened? Were your efforts wasted at all? 

I believe that for a person who has made so much progress and growth, authentic growth, there is no such thing as wasted efforts.  It may be true that you may see a lot of work that has to be redone, but doing that work is indeed not a waste at all.  In fact, if you really did your homework well, you'd find yourself much stronger and wiser now, and you'll be able to accomplish the same task in less than half the time you've spent doing it before.

What you've experienced is merely a TEMPORARY setback, and even setbacks can be opportunities for more growth.

During such times, you will realize how stronger you have indeed become.   You will also be able to assess how much room there still is for improvement in many areas in your life.  Speed is not the main thing after all, but the right direction in which we are headed to.

"In our lives we will have setbacks. There will be times – and journeys – when we panic. Overtaken by fear, we regress. Despite our progress we retreat and give up valuable ground that we worked hard at gaining. We must know that this too is part of life’s real journeys. Never be discouraged; even our retreats are challenges that can be converted into opportunities which are part of the journey that helps thrust us forward."-Meaningful Life Center

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so you can see yourself as beautiful?

How smart must you be

so you find the confidence to say

that you have it in you

to succeed

How much studies must you undertake

how many certificates and titles must you acquire

how many languages

how many skills

how excellent

how fast

and how creative

so you can find the security to say

that in this fast

and changing world

you are doing well

and that you are at par

with the rest

who are trying so hard

as you do

trying to please

trying to excel

trying to be the very best

where the very best

could not be found

among those who try

to be the best.

It is never enough

It never will be enough

for true confidence

could not be found

in the exaltation of the self

or in the perfection we desire

but which eludes us the more

the more we try to grasp it

Only in Jesus

do we find rest

only in Him

do we find

the strength

the purpose

and the power

to accomplish

all things

for the perfect good

of all.

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If water is the blessing, and if the blessing is in abudance, maybe we ask why some receive more of it than some of us do.  And so we look at lakes far wider than the rest, or oceans for deeper and clearer, or waterfalls stronger and more majestic than many.  And then we look at creeks and small trickles of water, of canals that lay stagnant and could not deliver such a powerful flow. 

Can we now see it better?  Can we now see how water (life's blessings) can be so abundant, and how at the same time, we seem to have so little of it?

If we want to have more of it, like a big lake perhaps, it's up to us to dig more deeper and to ALLOW more of the water to pass thru, to flow and to come in.  The bigger the space we carve, the more water there will be, the more share of blessings we can have in the infinite abundance of life!

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