em

I think that the calmest feeling of all is in the belief that despite every sad and depressing thing that happens in your life, you still have hope that it’s filled with purpose and love. You can fail a thousand times and still have the strength in your heart that trying in itself is an act of bravery. You can be in a situation where it’s easy to let yourself be controlled by anger, hate, and bitterness and still have the persistence to be driven by kindness, warmth, and light. You can fall into the pits of despair, misery, and doom and still have fresh air singing in your lungs, tender blood flowing through your veins and the sun every morning that reminds your mind that there will always be forgiveness in the dawn for you to start over again no matter how many nights it rains. For you are the offspring of peace. For you are alive and are in the right to put yourself at ease. For you have the gift of rising each and every day.