Friday, March 14, 2014

Life Quotes And Photographs

Since I ended last weeks' posting with some sarcastic life quotes, I thought it would be a nice balance to end this week with several inspirational life quotes, which I find for my own life to be true.

I think we all pretty much have similar life experiences, we humans, but I think we each go through them according to our own unique perspectives. Our experiences may be similar, but our paths are sometimes different.

We all grow and learn in our own manner.

Gratitude

One of the things I’ve learned about my own life is that if I’m ever going through a rough and challenging time, it helps me tremendously to not focus on the challenge, but rather focus on all the things I have in my life to be grateful for.

Gratitude seems to put me in a positive frame of mind, thus it makes going through any challenge much easier. Because when I focus on what I have to be grateful for, it seems to draw more positive things into my life; giving me a sense of peace as I move through the challenge.

Gratitude seems to free me up to see the bigger picture, or at least trust that everything is happening to me for a good reason. And when I look back on the challenges I've had in my life, I look at them with gratitude as well because they brought me to where I am today.

As I’ve shared many times before on this blog, I live my life different than a lot of people. I choose to live my life by allowing life to give me what I need, and then taking my cues from life. And if I listen and take notice to what life is presenting to me at any given moment, I know it will guide me exactly where I need to be and what I need to do.

I live my life by trusting that my life knows better than me.

Fear

I'm often presented with life experiences that frighten me. Yet, fear has been one of the most valuable gifts my life as given me because I've learned to trust in spite of fear. I've learned to admit fear, and in doing so, stopped resisting it by pretending that I'm not afraid. And oddly enough, anything I've ever been afraid of and did, I always survived. And it made me stronger for the next thing I feared because I will never be fearless. However, I will continue to walk through it.

So yes, I'm even grateful for the fear in my life.

Anyhoo...

Today I would like to share some inspirational life quotes, which I overlaid onto photographs that I’ve taken myself. Most of these photos are recent, yet a few I took several years ago.

Please enjoy...