“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso
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Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.
We must be our own before we can be another’s.
The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso
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But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out, is in.
We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.
“Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.”
— Alan Watts
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You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.
a gentle reminder that you did well this year. you met new people, learned new things and felt new feelings. you did so many things that made you scared. you picked yourself up off the floor after feeling completely defeated or heartbroken. there were some really tough nights but you survived them all. you made people happy just by existing. you accepted many goodbyes but the serendipitous meetings made up for them. it was your own hard work that paid off but you always downplay it or compare yourself to others. that’s not fair on yourself. you’ve come so far from the first day of this year. you have more wisdom and strength now. yes, other people seem more “successful” but does that even matter? please don’t think so lowly of yourself to only think about your failures. 2018 was your year of growth. I hope you take a moment to be kind to yourself, and believe that 2019 will be even better.
