“The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.” LifeInspirationalInspirational QuotesGrowthInspiringLearningInspirational LifeSelf LoveLivingLife And LivingSelf AwarenessInspirational AttitudeInspirational LivingSelf Belief Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you.” LifeInspirationalSelfInspirational QuotesInspiringLife And LivingLiving Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.” LifeInspirationalChildrenKidsInspirational QuotesInspiringGrowing UpChildhoodInspirational LifeLivingLife And LivingParentingMotherhoodParenthoodFatherhoodParenting Children Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you.” LifeInspirationalInspirational QuotesLife LessonsHumanityGrowthLearningGrowingInspirational LifeLife And LivingHumanismLife Experiences Author:C. JoyBell C.
“For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing: for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race.” PeopleLifeInspirationalWisdomTruthInspirational QuotesHumanityPerfectInspiringJourneyInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesLivingLife And LivingPerfectionWingsAncientFlyingFlightHuman RaceImperfectionLiving LifeLife S JourneyThe JourneyTwo Wings Author:C. JoyBell C.
“When I was little and running on the race track at school, I always stopped and waited for all the other kids so we could run together even though I knew (and everybody else knew) that I could run much faster than all of them! I pretended to read slowly so I could "wait" for everyone else who couldn't read as fast as I could! When my friends were short I pretended that I was short too and if my friend was sad I pretended to be unhappy. I could go on and on about all the ways I have limited myself, my whole life, by "waiting" for people. And the only thing that I've ever received in return is people thinking that they are faster than me, people thinking that they can make me feel bad about myself just because I let them and people thinking that I have to do whatever they say I should do. My mother used to teach me "Cinderella is a perfect example to be" but I have learned that Cinderella can go fuck herself, I'm not waiting for anybody, anymore! I'm going to run as fast as I can, fly as high as I can, I am going to soar and if you want you can come with me! But I'm not waiting for you anymore.” LifeInspirationalRunningInspirational QuotesWaitingFreedomInspiringLearningGrowingLimitsAchievementLivingLife And LivingFlyingSelf DiscoveryFulfillmentPotentialLiving LifeSelf GrowthChangingCinderellaFulfilling Your PotentialBreaking FreePersonal FulfillmentSoaringPersonal LimitsGoodbye CinderellaYour Full Potential Author:C. JoyBell C.
“We are all equal in the fact that we are all different. We are all the same in the fact that we will never be the same. We are united by the reality that all colours and all cultures are distinct & individual. We are harmonious in the reality that we are all held to this earth by the same gravity. We don't share blood, but we share the air that keeps us alive. I will not blind myself and say that my black brother is not different from me. I will not blind myself and say that my brown sister is not different from me. But my black brother is he as much as I am me. But my brown sister is she as much as I am me.” LifeInspirationalInspirationInspirational QuotesHumanityDifferencesRaceSocietyColorInspirational LifeLivingLife And LivingHumanRespectHarmonyUnityHumanismIndividualityEqualityBrotherhoodDifferenceSisterhood Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I don't know why people are afraid of lust. Then I can imagine that they are very afraid of me, for I have a great lust for everything. A lust for life, a lust for how the summer-heated street feels beneath my feet, a lust for the touch of another's skin on my skin...a lust for everything. I even lust after cake. Yes, I am very lusty and very scary.” LifeInspirationalHumorInspirationInspirational QuotesPassionInspiringHuman NatureInspirational LifeLivingLife And LivingHumanismLustLoving LifePassionate LivingPassionsLustfulPassion For LifeLust For LifeLustyPassion For LivingHumor Fear Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw out the rotten ones and forget about them while you enjoy eating the ones that are good! There are two kinds of people: those who choose to throw out the good cherries and wallow in all the rotten ones, and those who choose to throw out all the rotten ones and savor all the good ones.” LifeInspirational QuotesInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesLife And LivingInspirational AttitudePositivityPositive AttitudeLiving LifeLiving Life To The FullestThe Art Of LifeLife Is A Bowl Of CherriesTwo Kinds Of People Author:C. JoyBell C.
“In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!” LifeInspirationalInspirationInspirational QuotesBeliefChanceInspiringCourageInspirational LifeLivingBraveryInspirational AttitudeSecond ChanceSecond ChancesChancesTaking Chances Author:C. JoyBell C.
“People can have their opinions about everything in the world, but people's opinions end where the tip of my nose begins. Your opinions of others can only go so far as to where their own shoreline is. The world is for your taking, but other people are not. One is only allowed to have an opinion of me, if that person is done educating him/herself on everything about me. Before people educate themselves on everything about you, they're not allowed to open their venomous mouthes and have an opinion about you.” PeopleLifeLivingLife And LivingRespectProtectionSelf RespectLiving LifeSelf DefenseOpinionsVenomEducation Knowledge Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.” LifeInspirationalHappinessInspirational QuotesSpiritFreedomInspiringDestinyInspirational LifeLivingLife And LivingInspirational AttitudeHumanismStained Glass Window Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Because she looks to the sky so often, people think that her life is sweet, that her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars. But quite the opposite is true and I wish they could see— she looks up so much because all around her it's hard to see without breaking her heart. She once saw in a movie a window sign that said "We're all in the gutter; but some of us are looking at the stars." From that movie onwards, she decided to look up! Doesn't mean her life is sweet, doesn't mean her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars.” LifeInspirational QuotesLife QuotesInspirational LifeStar GazingWomens QuotesQuotes For GirlsHeart MeltingLook Up To The Stars Author:C. JoyBell C.
“This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely surprised and forever grateful, when they are. Expecting all good things to be yours, while not knowing how to take anything for granted. If there may be a key in life, this is the key.” LifeInspirationalInspirational QuotesInspirational LifeLivingLife And LivingInspirational AttitudeGood ThingsGratefulnessThe AnswerKey To LifeAnswer To Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.” LifeInspirationalTruthBeautifulHappinessInspirational QuotesSpiritBeliefBeautyDestinyInspirational LifeLivingLife And LivingLife ExperienceBelief Quotes Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven.” LifeInspirational QuotesWinningVictoryLife And LivingEmpowermentOvercomingOffensesDealing With Offenses Author:C. JoyBell C.
“When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or right. Black or white. Now that I am an adult, I have put childish things aside and now I know that some things fall into wrong and some things fall into right. Some things are categorized as black and some things are categorized as white. But most things in the world aren't either! Most things in the world aren't black, aren't white, aren't wrong, aren't right, but most of everything is just different. And now I know that there's nothing wrong with different, and that we can let things be different, we don't have to try and make them black or white, we can just let them be grey. And when I was a child, I thought that God was the God who only saw black and white. Now that I am no longer a child, I can see, that God is the God who can see the black and the white and the grey, too, and He dances on the grey! Grey is okay.” LifeInspirationalDifferentGodInspirational QuotesLife LessonsGrowthDifferencesLearningGrowingInspirational LifeLivingLife And LivingBlack And WhiteGreyLiving LifeRight And WrongChildishnessChildishWrong And RightGreyness Author:C. JoyBell C.
“There are two things we should always be 1. raw and 2. ready. When you are raw, you are always ready and when you are ready you usually realize that you are raw. Waiting for perfection is not an answer, one cannot say "I will be ready when I am perfect" because then you will never be ready, rather one must say "I am raw and I am ready just like this right now, how and who I am.” LifeInspirationalInspirationInspirational QuotesCourageReadyInspirational LifeLivingLife And LivingPerfectionBraveryInspirational AttitudeLiving LifeReadinessRawRawness Author:C. JoyBell C.
“To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it.” LifeWisdomInspirational QuotesFearInspiringCourageInspirational LifeWisdom QuotesLivingLife And LivingBraverySelf AwarenessSelf KnowledgeKnow YourselfLiving LifeInspirational LivingFearsKnow ThyselfThe Significance Of Fear Author:C. JoyBell C.
“There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away what is our own that is limited and to thrust ourselves into the hands of these higher powers- God and Destiny.To do this is to abide in the realm of the eternal, to walk in the path of the everlasting to follow in the footprints of God and demi-gods. The hardest part for man is the letting go. For some reason, he thinks himself big enough to know and to see what's good for him. But in the letting go........is found freedom. In the letting go........ is found the flight!” LifeInspirationalGodInspirationTruthInspirational QuotesBeliefDestinyInspirational LifeLetting GoLivingFlyingMeaning Of LifeFootprintsFlying Spirit Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself.” LifeInspirationalWisdomInspirational QuotesGrowthWealthInspiringEducationLearningGrowingWisdom QuotesLife And LivingLearning ProcessTeachingsSchool Of Life Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you!” LifeInspirationalInspirational QuotesGraceInspirational LifeLivingInspirational AttitudeWingsFlyingFlightFlying SpiritGraceful SpiritGraceful AttitudeGraceful Nature Author:C. JoyBell C.
“I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone?” LifeSoulInspirational QuotesSpiritInspiringAirLonelinessInspirational LifeLife And LivingBreathingBreathNever Alone Author:C. JoyBell C.
“Life flirts with me, seduces me. I constantly hear the siren call of life.” LifeLife QuotesLife Quotes And SayingsLive LifeLiving Your Best LifeLive With PassionLive Life So Well Author:C. JoyBell C.
“It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, it just keeps on going and going again...all of this, so I can find things out and then I write about the things I find out so you can find them out from me. All the bruises, all the wounds, all the bumps on the head, all the scars, just so I can take that and I can write all these things, and sometimes I say "God, I don't want to be in this roller coaster anymore." But when I think about it, if I'm not right here, then where the hell would I be? On the sidewalk? I wasn't born to stand on the sidewalk, I was born to fly around crazy in the sky!” LifeWritingLife And LivingLife ExperienceWriting LifeRoller CoasterMy LifeBorn This WayThe Writer Author:C. JoyBell C.
“It is when we think we can act like God, that all respect is lost, and I think this is the downfall of peace. We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same. We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors!” LifeInspirationalInspirationInspirational QuotesHumanityDifferencesFreedomRaceColorInspirational LifeLivingHumanRespectHumanismConformityDifferenceConformism Author:C. JoyBell C.
“The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.” PeopleLifeInspirationalInspirational QuotesInspirational LifeLivingPersonaThe WorldOnion Skins Author:C. JoyBell C.
“It would be perfect if everyone who makes love, is in love, but this is simply an unrealistic expectation. I'd say 75 percent of the population of people who make love, are not in love, this is simply the reality of the human race, and to be idealistic about this is to wait for the stars to aline and Jupiter to change color; for the Heavens to etch your names together in the sky before you make love to someone. But idealism is immaturity, and as a matter of fact, the stars may never aline, Jupiter may never change color, and the Heavens may never ever etch your names together in the sky for you to have the never-ending permission to make endless love to one another. And so the bottom line is, there really is no difference between doing something today, and doing something tomorrow, because today is what you have, and tomorrow may not turn out the way you expect it to. At the end of the day, sex is an animalistic, humanistic, passionate desire.” LifeRealitySexLife And LivingHumanismPassionateSexualityReality Of LifeHumanisticAnimalisticReality Expectation Author:C. JoyBell C.