inspiring, motivational and happiness quotes

I don't have anything to blog today. So I will just share some of my favorites.

“The road to success and the road to happiness are two lanes of the same highway. And the toll you must pay is simply being true to yourself.” - Author Unknown

 

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart . . . pursue those

 

God only gives three answers to prayer: 1. 'Yes!' 2. 'Not yet.' 3. 'I have something better in mind

 

Great people are just ordinary people but have extra ordinary determination

 

“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.” - Oprah Winfrey

 

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.” – Confucius

 

When things get tough, find a reason to go on instead of a reason to quit. Both are easy to find, but only one gets you what you want.

Be Brave, Be Succesful

You'll never be brave if you don't get hurt. You'll never learn if you don't make mistakes. You'll never be successful if you don't encounter failure.


Choosing not to be brave enough to tackle the challenges in your life that may end up hurting you, will definitely end up hurting you in the long run when we refuse to even attempt to take those risks. Sometimes the best way to learn is from our own past experiences, and if we have no eye opening experiences that we committed in the past, chances are we are going to encounter future instances and challenges in our lives that we will have to learn from one day.


Going through our lives we have to remember that it sometimes takes knowing how failure may come so that we can best avoid it and receive a victory. Excelling in life means that we must be brave, and that there will be mistakes we make when we are going for what is in our hearts. We don't ever really know what success really means until we have failed before seeing success.

Dear Kean,

Quotable Quote

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” 
― Marilyn Monroe

So what makes a mother?

What does it take to become a mother? And why are they so special even to the point of granting them a special occasion to wit, making us go crazy over what to give as Mother’s Day Gifts? These are the questions that I did not want to be confronted with.

Fortunately, the good heavens above twisted my fate and turned the tides and eventually had me traverse to the other side of maternal phobia. And these are some the wonderful things I will learn on my journey of being a mother.

I learned that the phrase “It’s Okay, Mommy’s here” works like magic; That there is only one pretty face and every mother has it; and that the cliché “Mothers Know Best’ oftentimes mean “I told you so” or otherwise signify that you have get your mother’s approval on everything even on your choice of women.

But more than that, I learned that being mother is not just being the source of subsistence but also comfort, not just a source of trust but loyalty, not just a source of friendship but unconditional love. Because being a mother involves a bundle of emotions that most of the time defy reason.

Because being a mother means giving life but not living it for your children, it means teaching them things but not learning it for them, letting them know what’s right from wrong but not deciding it for them, it means giving them freedom but at the same time not be accountable for them.

Because being a mother is to support your children all the way even if they choose to take the road you don’t want them to. Because being a mother is to always be there even if it hurts. Because the unfathomable fact is, you can never stop being a mother.

So what does it take to become a mother – It takes unbelievable and immeasurable courage.

And why are mothers so special – because they can take the place of all other people but then expect nothing in return.

And why are they so important to be remembered – because they brought you into this world and even gave up theirs so you can be happy.

I know this because I am one. The best part of my day is the fact that I am important, I am valued, I am needed and I can love my child with unconditional love all my life…And I will.