“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”

~Anthony de Mello

"The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;
it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I find that some people have such a hard time trusting and letting someone trust them.  Have you found people in life that just bewilder you because they can't trust?  I've been burned by people and have been scarred by it but for some reason I'm always able to go back and trust.  With age, it takes me a bit longer to find that vulnerability again but it always seems to come back.  

"People won't remember what you say or did, they will remember how you make them feel" - Maya Angelou

 

Working on finding forgiveness in my heart, letting down my pride and apologizing for the wrongs that I have done and accepting that no one is perfect.  All we can do is be real with our feelings, our words, and express them to the ones that matter.  Finding my inner strength to be vulnerable... 

With that said, the tough, fiesty, little Italian in me, loves this song... HA.  Enjoy.  

These are words that I strive to live by while maintaining that nice balance with discipline and reliability. 

Who's going with me??

"There can be only two questions that are asked with regard to human relationships:

1. Where am I going?
2. Who is going with me?

Do not invert the order of the questions.
Do not - under any circumstances - invert the order of the questions.
Is that clear?
Are you clear about that?
Good. Then we can move on."
 
~ Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God - Book I 

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drown your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." ~ Steve Jobs

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” ~Ambrose Redmoon

"be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire." -- St. Catherine of Siena

 

"cause honestly you turned out to be the best thing i never had... thank God I found the good in goodbye... what goes around comes back around..." ~ beyonce