Follow Your Light

“The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”

“You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.”

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

“When you dance to your own rhythm, people may not understand you; they may even hate you. But mostly they’ll wish they had the courage to do the same.”

“I’m that complicated, mysterious, yet content with the “simple” things in life. Don’t try to understand me; you won’t figure me out. But you’re free to like me the way I am.”

“So what if you failed on your first try? So what if you failed on your second, third, and fourth as well. Does that make you any less of a person? Are you any less deserving of the love and goodness within the world? Are you any less capable of living within the beauty of each moment? No, not even close. Failure does not define you. It all depends on how you define it.”

“What’s yours will find you.”

“Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed.”

Some will call you you crazy. Some will think you’re absolutely insane. But really, you’re just chasing what you yourself know to be right; you’re chasing after your biggest dreams.

Be what the universe created you to be, not what men made for us to become.

Happiness is not handed to us on a silver platter. Happiness is something that we ourselves must be able to manifest all on our own, regardless of what else life gives to us.

You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.

There’s no need to feel out of place, for your place is everywhere. Your home is not in one place or another, but is instead within you. It goes where you go, it is a part of you, and you are an irreplaceable part of this universe.