There are fears that lie dormant

There are fears that lie dormant until you are called upon by life to confront and overcome them.

What matters is trusting yourself enough to confront it, walk through it and survive.

The Nightingale By Shams al -Din Muhammad Hafez -e Shirazi

THE nightingale with drops of his heart's blood

Had nourished the red rose, then came a wind,

And catching at the boughs in envious mood,

A hundred thorns about his heart entwined.

Like to the parrot crunching sugar, good

Seemed the world to me who could not stay

The wind of Death that swept my hopes away.

Light of mine eyes and harvest of my heart,

And mine at least in changeless memory!

Ah, when he found it easy to depart,

He left the harder pilgrimage to me!

Oh Camel-driver, though the cordage start,

For God's sake help me lift my fallen load,

And Pity be my comrade of the road!

My face is seamed with dust, mine eyes are wet.

Of dust and tears the turquoise firmament

Kneadeth the bricks for joy's abode; and yet . . .

Alas, and weeping yet I make lament!

Because the moon her jealous glances set

Upon the bow-bent eyebrows of my moon,

He sought a lodging in the grave-too soon!

I had not castled, and the time is gone.

What shall I play? Upon the chequered floor

Of Night and Day, Death won the game-forlorn

And careless now, Hafiz can lose no more.

Brave Woman by Zeki Majd

She is the bravest my eyes have ever seen

A lion bows, in shiver and fear

I am on my knees for I can not believe

A woman so beautiful, among us she breathes…

I offer this world and everything within to her feet…

I say proudly that I will protect her with fists…

She smiles, then gently she says to me…

I am a woman, strong and I do not need

Protection, for I may seem fragile

But I am stronger than steel…

I do not know what words to speak…

For I desire her love, and love her miserably…

But I have only my heart to offer

And she deserves better than me…

It does not matter that I love her endlessly…

She lives in a world that the devil dreams to flee…

And yet she stands strong with a smile shinning through her lips…

With a laugh musical, poetry to my ears…

She is a brave woman…gentle and free

I once asked a very successful woman to share her secret with me.

I once asked a very successful woman to share her secret with me. She smiled and said to me..

"I started succeeding when I started leaving small fights for small fighters. 

I stopped fighting those who gossiped about me...

I stopped fighting with my in laws...

I stopped fighting for attention...

I stopped fighting to meet peoples expectation of me...

I stopped fighting for my rights with inconsiderate people..

I stopped fighting to please everyone...

I stopped fighting to prove they were wrong about me....

I left such fights for those who have nothing else to fight...

And I started fighting for 

my vision, 

my dreams, 

my ideas and 

my destiny.

The day I gave up on small fights is the day I started becoming successful & so much more content."

Some fights are not worth your time..... Choose what you fight for wisely.

So far as I get closer to reach 41 I have learned that..

So far as I get closer to reach 41 I have learned that....

- things don’t always turn out the way you planned, or the way you think they should;

- that there are things that go wrong that don’t always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before;

- that some broken things stay broken; 

-that mistakes are the greatest lessons in life if you know how to pass your ego;

- and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have hope and people who love you.....

One day it just clicks.

One day it just clicks.

You realize what is important and what isn’t.

You learn to care less about what other people think of you and more about what you think of yourself.

You realize how far you have come and you remember when you thought things were such a mess that they’ll never recover.

And then you smile.

You smile because you are truly proud of yourself and the person you have fought to become.

Steve Maraboli

I want to talk about standing still.

I want to talk about standing still. 

Holding breath. 

Just waiting and hoping all the pieces will fall into place.

The best of us are guilty from time to time. We wait. And we wait.

But sometimes nothing happens.

Nothing good, anyway.

Think of all the areas in which we do it: In our jobs. Our love lives.

Anything that involves risk, really.

We convince ourselves that we’ll make a move when all circumstances are just right. Or that things will actually fix themselves if we can hold on just a little longer.

Sometimes that is indeed the case: if we can find a sense of patience, many situations will have a way of clarifying themselves: The wild bull ride you’ve been enduring ends. Answers appear. New pathways unfold.

But other times, we can wait TOO LONG.

Hot food sits until it turns cold and unpalatable.

Fresh bread goes stale.

Kids outgrow the “good” clothes before they’ve even had a chance to wear them. Tags still on. Money down the drain.

Open doors swing closed.

The magic is in knowing when to sit tight – and when to jump on the opportunity in front of you. The compelling person you’ve been dying to ask out. The house in the ideal neighborhood that finally came on the market. The job you’ve been dreaming about.

Yet deciding to act can be so fraught with doubt. What if I swing and miss? Is this even the right thing to pursue? How will it end? And how can I know for sure??

Truth is, you can’t.

You can never get a guarantee that things will work out exactly as you expect. 

Sometimes you’ve just got to take a giant leap of faith.

Or, perhaps one tiny step in the right direction.

Even if it’s on tiptoe.

But refuse to stand still.

Becky Vollmer

If someone truly wants you in their life

If someone truly wants you in their life, then they will do what it takes to keep you. You can’t force someone to care about you. You can’t force someone to be loyal to you. You can’t force someone to love you.

Don’t stay because you think there isn’t true love out there. Don’t stay because you think you can’t find better. Don’t lie to yourself second guessing the person you are. Don’t walk in a hurricane just to be by their side when you know they would never do the same for you. You've got to understand that some people that come into your life aren’t meant to stay there forever. Even when you feel with your entire being that this is it for you, they actually might not be.

Never look for the traces of those

Never look for the traces of those who burn your emotions and then walk on the coal of your soul.Let them go, like a river that will never ever turn around to come back.It's hard to learn how to stay alive without them,but in their absent you'll get that a bitter end is much better than an endless bitterness.

~Shukrya Hama

It isn't just the outside

It isn't just the outside ....it's the inside too that means the most. Some of the most gorgeous, beautiful and best looking people around have proven to be the most ugliest in the world!! Beauty really is only skin deep and it runs much deeper than that. Real and TRUE beauty lies not only on the outside but, it's inside the heart too ♥