“We went to NYC when I was a little kid; my parents told me to lock the car doors because there were "punks" outside. They couldn't stop talking about how dangerous the "punks" were. A group of teens with chains and mohawks with pink and purple hair. I just thought they were beautiful, I wasn't frightened at all. From that day on, I knew that one day I would surround myself with "punks". From a very tender age, on that day, I had already made up my mind to never just think what my parents thought. I had made up my mind to have my own mind, to live on my own terms.” Life PhilosophyLife And LivingIndependenceIndividualityLife Quotes And SayingsFollow Your Own PathLive On Your Own TermsLive By My Own Terms Author:C. JoyBell C.
“One day, I will look back upon my life and I will say, "That's not the life I planned, but I lived it." I may not have lived the life I planned, but I will have lived the life that I have.” Life LessonsLife QuotesLife PhilosophyWise WordsWisdom QuotesLife And LivingHow To Live LifeTenacity Quotes Author:C. JoyBell C.
“There is ALWAYS going to be a way out, or in, or around... you need to train your brain to know and to believe that. Because when you do, you're not going to stop until you find that way. Some people think about fate. I'm not like that. I'm not like, "this is my fate." Instead, I say, "this life is my gift and I have my tools with me and there is ALWAYS going to be a way.” FateLife PhilosophyLife And LivingInspirational LivingSurvival InstinctLife Is A GiftSurvivalistTenacity QuotesA Way Out Author:C. JoyBell C.
“If you ever see me with a man, it's because waking up in the morning with that person makes me feel more alive than waking up in the morning on my own. If I feel more free and more alive on my own, you're not going to see me with a man. I have no fear of loneliness but I have a fear of having to wake up beside anyone who makes me feel less sparkly, less able to fly. I have a fear of not really drinking in life deeply; of merely sipping it politely.” Life PhilosophyLife And LivingInspirational AttitudeLife Quotes And SayingsMentalityLife And LoveRelationships QuotesWomens InspirationalWomens QuotesLove Of Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“People can be, like, "you're not really that important for me to stay." And they expect me to say things like, "I can show you how important I am, more than the others", thus expecting this whole dance-of-the-human to ensue. Listen, I don't do dance-of-the-human. I am here in this place where moonlight is the only light and I don't need to be the Sun. The Moon is okay. And some people prefer the Sun, and that's okay too. I have cozy things where I am: quietness and a cat. And big windows and tea. I can let people like other things that are not me. I'm not going to be doing that dance with you. If you want to stay with me, it's going to be because you want to be near me and if you don't want to be near me then that means you want to be near someone or something else. That's okay. I don't have to be everything. I only have to be me.” Inspirational QuotesInspirational LifeLife PhilosophyLife And LivingSelf AwarenessInspirational AttitudeSelf WorthSelf RealizationWisdom Inspirational Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Make sure that you are both the bee and the honey to your own honeycomb.” Inspirational QuotesInspirational LifeLife PhilosophyWisdom QuotesLiving LifeInspirational LivingLiving WellHow To Live Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“We become so focused on the individual events and circumstances of our lives, so eager to label them as "good" or "bad", when in fact, everything is just LIFE! Everything, all of it, it's all just LIFE.” LifeLife LessonsInspirational LifeLife PhilosophyWisdom QuotesLife And LivingLife Quotes And SayingsAttitude Toward LifeAttitude In Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“We come into this world and we are taught that life is a process of attainments. Or the collection of attainments. But I have since discovered that life is a process of rising above in the moments. The river wants to flow downhill or the wave wants to take you under; but you instead sit on a rock or surf the top of that wave. We essentially all have to be mermaids, every day, to live this life. There is a constant flow of water current: going up and going down. You go up to be happy.” Life LessonsInspirational LifeLife PhilosophyLife And LivingLife Quotes And SayingsMermaidLiving WellLiving In The PresentLive Life So WellMermaid Quotes Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Don't let your heart fall into perceived kindness right away. You might be taking a person's light, putting it onto a thousand candlewicks, only to discover that the light was not a flame, that it was only a faint and unreliable reflection. Very few people are truly kind. Hold the hands of the ones who are.” Life LessonsKindnessLife PhilosophyWisdom QuotesGuidance QuotesDo Not Be Deceived Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Life just happens. That's not the crazy part. The crazy part is when people fight it, when they don't let it just happen.” Life LessonsLife PhilosophyWisdom QuotesLife And LivingLife Quotes And SayingsLiving Well Author:C. JoyBell C.
“You don't want to be righteous. You want to be just good enough to keep the company of angels and just bad enough so the devil isn't out to get you.” Life PhilosophyLife And LivingLife Quotes And SayingsRighteousnessRighteousAngelsThe Devil Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Life is a river. Life is not the mountain which speaks of struggle, nor the ocean that speaks of depths unknown. Life is not the sky which tells stories of greatness, nor the trees that tell stories of purpose. But life is a river that flows and the only way to live is to go into your river and flow with it. That is where life is. That is how you will arrive at where you are meant to be. Flow in your river wherever it may lead.” Life LessonsLife PhilosophyLife And LivingLife Lesson QuotesLife And Living Life PhilosophyRiverLiving Your Best LifeRiver QuotesLife And Living InsightLife Is A River Author:C. JoyBell C.
“It is difficult for me to have a great amount of respect for those who make decisions based upon their comfort levels, rather than upon bravery to challenge fears, courage to challenge insecurities, and boldness to hold an unapproved, unpopular stand. I need people who march to the beat of their own drums. I respect that. I respect colours made outside of lines. I respect those who live to be uncomfortable, to be wrong, to see themselves. There is nothing more uncomfortable than seeing yourself.” Life LessonsLife PhilosophyLife And LivingLife Philosophy InspirationalLive Life So WellLive With Boldness Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I think that happiness is the experience which encompasses our ability to live, inclusive of all the mini pangs of being-alive-passions that we have. For example, just because you're sad, I don't think that means your state as a person is "unhappy." You can be a happy person and feel fully sad, fully joyous, fully worried, fully lighthearted, fully calm, fully expectant or nervous... happiness is being a full person. It's not living life in this one corner where you've curated everything to suit your ideal of what a happy person should be made up of. It's not this single, linear mode of thought or of being. I think it's the full experience of life and the art of living with the zest that you choose to live with.” HappinessLife PhilosophyWisdom QuotesLife And LivingHappy LifeLiving LifeHappiness AdviceHappiness Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“What does magnanimity look like applied to daily life? How can you be magnanimous every day? Well, it looks like resisting the urge to take offense in other people's lives and in their words or actions (people are not fashioned for your feelings); it looks like not having to launch an emotional reaction to every perceived action or inaction (you are not just a tall toddler with inferiority issues); it looks like letting people go more easily than they thought you could (you have time for more important things other than their tactics); It looks like treading lightly but thundering gently. That's magnanimous.” Life LessonsLife PhilosophyLife And LivingMagnanimityMagnanimousMagnanimity Quotes Author:C. JoyBell C.
“When you give good things to people often, they are going to think you're seeking their approval. This is because they come at you from their own mind which is limited, they have minds that are compromised and small. They are unable to decipher that you give good things simply because you are overflowing. Never for once let them think that you need to please them. And never fall into their mindset. You are a wellspring formed by the hands of God, not a device they keep to their convenience.” Life LessonsLife PhilosophyWisdom QuotesLife And LivingEvolveGuidance QuotesWarning QuotesEvolved ConsciousnessLimited Thinking Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The facing of life is not through material objects; the facing of life is through the materials we carry with us in our minds and in our souls.” Life LessonsLife QuotesLife PhilosophyLife And LivingLife Quotes And Sayings Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Don't leave me", "Don't go away", "Don't forget me"... it seems to me, a tragedy, that these words so divine are the words that everyone is trained to never say. We are trained to never say and to never listen, to these words. These are the sentiments we were born into this world with as infants, the purest form of soul, the same sentiments we are trained to murder in ourselves and in others. We wage a war against what it means to be alive and then we wonder why we're killing ourselves. If I say these things to someone, and they still leave me, I have not lost anything because I have truly lived.” HumanityLife PhilosophyLife And LivingCondition Of HumanityCondition Of SocietyCondition Of The Heart Author:C. JoyBell C.
“There is a part of blooming which I did not understand, you see. You can be a flower all your life but still not understand it. Blooming is one thing; but blooming where you are planted is another. It's so easy to say, "I will bloom when I am there", but you need to be saying, "I will bloom right here, where I was planted." Because until I bloom "right here", I'm never going to actually bloom; because we cannot do it in concept, you see, we must bloom now. We must bloom here. The flower must trust.” Life LessonsLife PhilosophyLife And LivingLife Quotes And SayingsTrust QuotesFlower QuotesBlooming QuotesBloom Where You Are Planted Author:C. JoyBell C.
“There is a part of blooming which I did not understand, you see. You can be a flower all your life but still not understand it. Blooming is one thing; but blooming where you are planted is another. It's so easy to say, "I will bloom when I am there", but you need to be saying, "I will bloom right here, where I was planted." Because until I bloom "right here", I'm never going to actually bloom; because we cannot bloom in concept, you see, we must to bloom now. We must bloom here.” Life LessonsLife PhilosophyLife And LivingBloomingBlooming QuotesBloom Where You Are Planted Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Don't make the mistake of ruining your future, so that you can save your past. You've got this one, precious life. So what are you gonna do with it?” Life LessonsLife PhilosophyLife And LivingLife Quotes And SayingsLife Lesson QuotesFuture InspirationalLiving Your Best Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I was talking to a friend last night, about pain. She said, "Pain doesn't go away, does it? It just lessens with time." And I said, "I think that the pain can be turned into other things... the pain is like the holes in the ground, but I think that we can turn the holes in the ground into little pools of water we can jump into. It's still a part of us, but, we can change its nature. Hopefully. Sometimes." And I think that just might be true.” PainLife LessonsLife PhilosophyLife And LivingLife Quotes And SayingsLiving LifePain QuotesWisdom InspirationalLiving WellLiving Well Quotes Author:C. JoyBell C.
“We choose the countenance that we wear each day.” Life LessonsLife PhilosophyLife And LivingLife ChoicesLiving WellLiving In The Present Author:C. JoyBell C.
“My life is a daily celebration. I choose who to invite to my party, and who doesn't get an invitation. And I'd be damned if I spent my time standing at the door, looking out and wondering where some people are, while my home is filled with people who are there to celebrate with me. Every day, I am going to party with the people whom I invited, the people who matter.” Life LessonsLife QuotesLife PhilosophyWisdom QuotesLife And LivingMoving OnCelebrationCelebration Quotes Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relationship with their significant other, just because they do not want to go through the trouble of breaking up, because it's safe, because other people expect it of them, because there is a fear of being alone... and in the process of doing this, they miss out on the life that is meant for them. Our lives must not be lived to be safe, to be out of trouble, to meet the expectations of others, and to avoid fear. On the contrary, our lives must be lived with courage, which can only be present if there is fear; our lives must be lived for what we know in our hearts is for us, not for what other people believe is for us; our lives must be lived even when it is not safe and even when things are troublesome. To die in full knowledge that you have pleased everyone safely, or to die in full knowledge that you seized what you knew was meant for you -- which way do you choose to die? Because that is the way you must choose to live!” RelationshipsCourageLife PhilosophyLife And LivingSeize The DayCourage In LifeCourage To Be OneselfHow To Live LifeHow To LiveTime To Let GoRelationships QuoteThe Life That Is Meant For You Author:C. JoyBell C.
“All pain comes from the distance between where you are now and where you want to be; from the distance between what you have and what you want; the difference between who you are now and who you wish to become. And all joy comes from the constant flow in the river of life: flowing with the reality of what is, right here and right now, and moving freely into wherever direction that river takes you. Control leads to pain because control assumes that one knows better than life itself.” Life LessonsLife QuotesLife PhilosophyLetting GoLiving WellLiving In The PresentLiving In The MomentMovement QuotesControl Issues Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I don't understand people who are obsessed with making things last. We don't even last! Don't we all die? But is that what matters? Because I think what matters is that we lived! A boy once asked me, "What if we don't last forever? That's my fear." I told him, "Why would that matter, after we've already lived?” Life QuotesLife PhilosophyLife Quotes And SayingsOne LifeOne Life Dont Stop Living ItOne Lifetime Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The worst kind of person is the type that goes around minimizing the achievements of other people. If anything at all, I want to maximize whatever achievements and admirable qualities another person has. The better you do, or are, the louder I'll cheer for you. I am into wanting eagles to soar further and higher. I'm not a chicken farmer. There are so many chicken farmers. I cannot stand people who cannot stand in the light of another without trying to diminish it.” Life PhilosophyPeople RelationsEnvy QuotesPeople NaturePeople Inspire PeopleEnvying Successful PeopleEnvy Is Evil Author:C. JoyBell C.
“People think that saving their pride is worth something. But it's not. Plenty of faces have been saved at the expense of murdered hearts. You need a heart to be alive; a face can't do that for you.” Life PhilosophyPrideEgoLiving WellLiving Your Best LifeEgo QuotesPride QuotesEgo Centric Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Healing is like a twisty pretzel, it's never linear. The process of healing is not something we need to be seeing as a staircase (one step higher after the other); but we need to see it as a part of life, an element of life, which is exactly what it is. Today you'll be better, tomorrow you'll be out of control, the next day you might be worse than that, and after that you'll be on top all over again. Like a pretzel. And there's salt all over it, too! But that's just like all other processes we go through, because life is a dance all over the dance floor; it's not an elevator ride. It's not one floor after the other. I mean, if it were that way then it wouldn't be worth living, would it? So, the next time you feel like you're losing your battle, remember that it's all about the salty pretzel: and at the end of the day, the pretzel is gonna be good. And you're gonna have a coke to wash it down. And you're gonna be okay.” HealingLife PhilosophyHealing QuotesHealing JourneyHealing ProcessHealing YourselfHealing Your Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The character traits which you do not appreciate about another person are also the very same tools that person has used to circumnavigate their life. We must not face another individual while bearing criticism for what we don't approve about them, because the traits people develop are their necessary tools applied to their own unique lives. Instead of criticizing, ask yourself, what kind of a life has this other person lived, that require such tools to be necessary. And what tools might you be yielding as a result of your own distinct journey, that others may also not understand?” Life PhilosophyCriticismLife And Living Life PhilosophyUnderstanding OthersCriticism QuotesUnderstanding LifeLife And Living InsightCriticizing OthersLife And Living Life Lessons Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The worst thing about a person, in your eyes, might be the best thing about that person for them in their own lives. Their rebellion might be what kept them alive; their difficult personality might be what gave them an advantage in an oppressive family; a person's cynicism may be what kept them out of the hands of predators. We see the worst things because we don't live other people's lives. What we think is their worst, might have been their best; saving their own lives over and over again. And what's important to a life is to keep on living.” Life PhilosophyWisdom QuotesLife Lesson QuotesDo Not JudgeJudgmentalityNo JudgmentJudgmental Mind Author:C. JoyBell C.
“They're telling me that fairy tales are for learning how to slay dragons. But I'm telling them that I would never slay a dragon. I will mount the backs of dragons, I will fly with them. And if that doesn't happen in fairy tales, well then, I'll write my own.” Life PhilosophySelf AwarenessSelf RealizationDragonsFairy TalesSlaying Dragons Author:C. JoyBell C.