"I believe I deserve something beautiful" -Elizabeth Gilbert
Many times we succumb to society's ideals of what a journey should look like or when we should reach a certain destination. Females especially are susceptible to this pitfall. If you are making progress towards a goal, a life desire, or even simply just having fun, you are doing it right.
Potential without action is useless. There is everything right with seeing true potential inside or outside of yourself. There is everything wrong with simply sitting back and expecting great things to happen with no effort.
Passionately be at the helm of your own ship. You are not a message in a bottle waiting to be drifted to a foreign land. An epic journey awaits you if you simply pull out your sword and bravely unfurl the sails.
Feelings are ever-changing and maddeningly, unaffected by logic. Yet paradoxically, sometimes the only thing that can help change someone's emotions is the simple acknowledgment that their state of mind is real and that it is okay.
The moment you are ABSOLUTELY SURE about every single thing in your life is the moment that you stop living.
It takes patience to build a life that is worth living.
It might not be the next day or even the next year, but eventually, the tiny seeds of positivity that you plant will bloom, and the winds of life will blow those second-generation seeds back into your own garden right when you need them.
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary lies in pushing through those moments where you feel like you've hit a wall. Ordinary stops and shrugs its shoulders. Extraordinary picks up a sledgehammer and starts swinging.
People gravitate towards authenticity, no matter what form it comes in.
In the past couple of days, I have taken some steps to move me towards my recently reformulated conception of my future. One of these steps included renaming my blog from "The Optimization Operation" to simply "Hannah Elizabeth". While this change was quite simple to do since my blog is still pretty new, it represents... Continue Reading →
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