Inspiration

A few months ago my friend and I were journaling these journal prompts (from We Are Global Travellers) and one of the prompts was to write down words that had inspired or stuck with you. I found this such a beautiful thought and loved doing it, as I reflected on things I'd heard, read or someone has said to me that was really special. Those pages in my journal are now so close to my heart as they hold inspiration and words that speak to my soul. I have decided to share them with you on here too in the hope that you love them as much as I do.

The world is really heavy right now so we need all the inspiration and love we can get.

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- Give yourself permission to outgrow outdated versions of yourself. Discovering yourself is not a one-time thing. Allow yourself to love who you have been, take care of who you are, and work towards who you want to be.

- Rules for being human:

You will receive a body

There are no mistakes only lessons

Lessons will be repeated until they are learned

'There' is no better than 'here'

Others are merely mirrors

What you make of your life is entirely up to you

- Just existing on some days is more than enough. The flowers do it every day and they add beauty to the world just by being here.

- An impossibility is just a possibility you don't understand yet

- You don't have to be positive. You don't have to feel guilty about fear or sadness or anger. You don't stop the rain by telling it to stop. Sometimes you just have to let it pour, let it soak you to your skin. It never rains forever. And know that however wet you get you are not the rain. You are not the bad feelings in your head. You are the person experiencing the storm. The storm may knock you off your feet. But you will stand again. Hold on.

- The Orange:

At lunchtime, I bought a huge orange—

The size of it made us all laugh.

I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—

They got quarters and I had a half.

And that orange, it made me so happy,

As ordinary things often do

Just lately. The shopping. A walk in the park.

This is peace and contentment. It's new.

The rest of the day was quite easy.

I did all the jobs on my list

And enjoyed them and had some time over.

I love you. I'm glad I exist.

- "it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world." -Mary Oliver

- Let yourself rest.

If you feel exhausted, rest.

If you don't feel the urge to make something new, just rest in the beauty of the old, the familiar, the known.

If you don't feel like talking, stay silent.

If you're fed up with the news, turn it off.

If you want to postpone something until tomorrow, do it.

If you want to do nothing, let yourself do nothing today.

Feel the fullness of the emptiness, the vastness of the silence, the sheer life of your unproductive moments.

Time does not always need to be filled.

You are enough, simply in your being.

- It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

- Enjoy the little things for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things.

- If there's even a slight chance of getting something that will make you happy, risk it. Life's too short and happiness is too rare.

- If someone knew you five years ago chances are they'd hardly know you at all now.

- Notes on survival

You are allowed to break. Everything does.

The stars grow tired and fall.

The waves crash against rocks and shores.

Trees fall for both storms and the wind, leaving behind seeds and saplings so a version of them can grow again.

Stormclouds part for the rain

and then part again for the sun to come through

Night must break for day and the day for the night

The world is made of broken things piecing themselves back together

- this is what gives us the most resilient stories

So why do you think that you are built any differently than the night and the storm clouds? You know how to put yourself back together again too, just as well as they do.

Take heart. You have managed to rebuild yourself a thousand times over from every bad day.

That is no small thing.

- Enjoy it, it goes quickly, suddenly your life is past tense. All you have to do is remember to eat your greens and brush your teeth every day, wear sun cream and write things down, be kind to others and take care of your heart. Be sure to dream big dreams and dance in the kitchen

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I hope you love these quotes as much as I do.

Megan x

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