“Your task is not to seek love, but to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”– Rumi. Let’s just go ahead and call this ‘Love Week’ here in the Wise Words section, shall we? Yesterday, I shared a love poem from the indomitable poet, Pablo Neruda, and today’s…
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my…
“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.” – Oprah Winfrey We made it to another weekend, Clutchettes, and while this week may have…
“Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.” -Robert Schuller How many times have you looked at your problems and threw your hands up, wondering how they’d get solved? I know I have. Years ago I had just lost my…
“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.” -Brian Tracy Have you ever felt that your life just wasn’t in balance? Perhaps your body felt out…
“Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.” – Proverbs 4:23 Whether you rock with the Good Book or not, it’s hard to deny that our friendships and relationships can make or break us. You get caught up with the wrong partner and your life goes awry or you…
“Yours is the energy that makes your world. There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.” – Jane Roberts What did Lauryn sing? “It could all be so simple, but you rather make it hard…” Our lives are often like that. While we feel that sometimes the world is conspiring against…
Last night I had an interesting conversation with a friend. At 31 she decided to let her hair go natural, which brought up some issues she didn’t expect. While she’s been loving the freedom of her natural hair—not worrying about it “going back” in a hot room after a hard press, for example—some folks in…
“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.” – John Allen Paulos. In my 30+ years of life, I’ve learned a lot of life lessons. One that I’ve been taught over and over again is that nothing ever stays the same. No matter how much…
“The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.” – Paulo Coelho There’s a reason why I haven’t dealt a lot with relationships in these Wise Words: love is a difficult animal to corral. No matter the type of relationship—friendship, romantic, familial—sometimes many of…
