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This blog compiles all things I find inspiring to my heart, my soul, my dreams. I also do the occasional personal blog, and recipe posts. I am a wife to an amazing Marine, a mom to three beautiful children, and a woman in all ways. =) I am currently...

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Everyone is blind, but you. Everyone is blind but YOU. No one can see what YOU do. That picture in your mind, That dream that you define, That vision, that mission, that truth. We spend so much time waiting and erasing and replacing, Just because someone else doesn’t believe. We give away our passions and live delayed and distracted, Based on what others can’t conceive. "That’s not possible, not plausible, not sensible or realistic." Boundaries THEY place on OUR dreams. The best and the greatest – for generations – have stated, You have to see the invisible to sculpt something new. You gotta be devoted and delusional, possessed, and unusual, You have to look differently to be one of the crazy few. So stop stopping your dreaming based on what other’s AREN’T seeing, And set your sights on your own unviewable view. They’re not supposed to see it. YOU were born to free it. That’s why that vision was gifted to you.

Kash Shaik

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I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d given up on asking love to come. I think that has to be part of its miracle. This is how we heal. I will kiss you like forgiveness. You will hold me like I’m hope. Our arms will bandage and we will press promises between us like flowers in a book. I will write sonnets to the salt of sweat on your skin. I will write novels to the scar of your nose. I will write a dictionary of all the words I have used trying to describe the way it feels to have finally, finally found you. And I will not be afraid of your scars. I know sometimes it’s still hard to let me see you in all your cracked perfection, but please know: whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun or the nights you collapse into my lap your body broken into a thousand questions, you are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. I will love you when you are a still day. I will love you when you are a hurricane.

Clementine von Radics

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You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.

Charlie Chaplin

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Promise Yourself.

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds. To live in faith that the whole world is on your side so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Oprah Winfrey

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I am a dangerous woman… Infinitely compassionate and wildly loving. Softly strong and strongly soft in my ways. Don’t get too close, you may see dreams come true and wishes appear from thin air. I am a dangerous woman……. Able to give unconditional love from an endless well within. Blindingly bright ~ I will continue to shine until the stars fade from the heavens. For God’s sake, don’t give me your heart, I might show you what it’s for and how to use it. I am a dangerous woman…… Capable and real. Genuine and wise. Whatever you do, don’t tell me your secrets, I will keep them. I am a dangerous woman……. Gently staunch in my defense of family, friends and home. Crazy in love with my life. Don’t expose me to your children, I may teach them something of value. I am a dangerous woman……… Reveling in my sensuality. Enjoying all the pleasures of being female. Stay away from me if a lover that is both your equal and your joy is what you seek. I am all that I am meant to be. If this means danger then…… I AM a dangerous woman.

Jennifer Farley

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I don’t mind when people tell me that my relationship ideals are a fairytale... If it is a fairytale to be loved, to be respected, to have passion, a moving and active love, if that is fairytale, then yes. If mutual respect, love, lust and friendship is a fairytale, then of course! I want to be in love with you, in lust with you, in like with you… it’s a multidimensional world why would I want a one-dimensional relationship? I want love, passion, honesty, and companionship… sex that drives me crazy and conversation that drives me sane. I want those kinds of things – if that is a fairytale, I’ll wait for it… I’ll cultivate it… I’ll create it. Every time I have settled for less, I have felt empty, incomplete, had too much drama, and just didn’t feel the wonderful magic of love. Other’s can waste their time and settle for less, but not me. Never again! Others can think it’s a fairytale and look down upon it, but keep this in mind… every great experience and advancement, from walking on the moon, to airplanes, to video phones, to GPS, to the Internet… at some point, these were all considered a fairytale. It doesn’t mean it’s not real; it means it is there for you to work towards, cultivate, and create. Set this standard and bring this magic into your life.

Steve Maraboli

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Peace is not just about the absence of conflict; it's also about the presence of justice... A counterfeit peace exists when people are pacified or distracted or so beat up and tired of fighting that all seems calm. But true peace does not exist until there is justice, restoration, forgiveness. Peacemaking doesn't mean passivity. It is the act of interrupting injustice without mirroring injustice, the act of disarming evil without destroying the evildoer, the act of finding a third way that is neither fight nor flight but the careful, arduous pursuit of reconciliation and justice. It is about a revolution of love that is big enough to set both the oppressed and the oppressors free. Peace is about being able to recognize in the face of the oppressed our own faces, and in the hands of the oppressors our own hands. Peace, like most beautiful things, begins small.

Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals," a book by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, & Enuma Okoro

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Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Gospel of St. Matthew 5:3-10

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For My Daughter by Sarah McMane

Never play the princess when you can be the queen: rule the kingdom, swing a scepter, wear a crown of gold. Don’t dance in glass slippers, crystal carving up your toes – be a barefoot Amazon instead, for those shoes will surely shatter on your feet. Never wear only pink when you can strut in crimson red, sweat in heather grey, and shimmer in sky blue, claim the golden sun upon your hair. Colors are for everyone, boys and girls, men and women – be a verdant garden, the landscape of Versailles, not a pale primrose blindly pushed aside. Chase green dragons and one-eyed zombies, fierce and fiery toothy monsters, not merely lazy butterflies, sweet and slow on summer days. For you can tame the most brutish beasts with your wily wits and charm, and lizard scales feel just as smooth as gossamer insect wings. Tramp muddy through the house in a purple tutu and cowboy boots. Have a tea party in your overalls. Build a fort of birch branches, a zoo of Legos, a rocketship of Queen Anne chairs and coverlets, first stop on the moon. Dream of dinosaurs and baby dolls, bold brontosaurus and bookish Belle, not Barbie on the runway or Disney damsels in distress – you are much too strong to play the simpering waif. Don a baseball cap, dance with Daddy, paint your toenails, climb a cottonwood. Learn to speak with both your mind and heart. For the ground beneath will hold you, dear – know that you are free. And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.

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They say back home, and jokingly in track circles, that if you win a medal it will change your life. I think your life is changed on the way to that medal, honestly. With all the journeys and sacrifices that you make, all the training that you do, and the people you leave at home to watch. That is what is really the value of the (medal). I’m glad I have something tangible to bring home and show for it. I know that everybody in Oxford will love to see it. But the journey, like my coach says, is the goal. Not necessarily the medals. And it’s very fun to come and compete, but not necessarily the end of all things.

2nd Lt. Sam Hendricks, 2016 Pole Vault Olympian Bronze Medalist, US Soldier

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Living an authentic life requires you to act according to your values.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

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Being arrogant or selfish in competition or life will harm yourself and will impede your goals.

Kim Rhode

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Why I choose to vote with my morals intact.

The partisan mantra is: "if you're not with us, you're against us", and this is essentially what's being said with: "not voting for Hillary is a vote for Trump" and vice versa. In both cases, your lack of support for one side is labeled as shame-worthy support for the other side. Neutrality doesn't exist for the partisan. The point of the partisan mantra is to shame, ridicule, guilt, scare, or demonize people into doing what the partisan wants. In other words, it's a way to manipulate people out of exercising their democratic rights by eliciting emotions that constrain their choice. The partisans who do this don't really believe in democracy. For them, winning is more important than how the game is played. Unfortunately, this isn't just the attitude of some of our citizens; it's also the attitude of our leaders. Democracy is a tool for the establishment, not a principle. When that tool doesn't fit the hole they want to screw, it becomes an obstacle.

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I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.

Martin Luther King Jr, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-acceptance_en.html