Tag: hope
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Love and Nurture
It’s often said that one shouldn’t speak about children and raising them unless they have had children of their own to raise. And yes, I absolutely believe that. I know nothing about raising one but I know a few things about being raised. Today I randomly came across a conversation between TD Jakes and Steve…
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Love yourself with tenderness.
When you love yourself, be deliberate and tender. You are uniquely you and no one can be a better you. You are God’s gift to the world; His masterpiece. When you look at yourself, say those same sweet things to you that you’d say to the person you love. Be unconditional while at it. Invest…
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Hope against cynicism.
There is nothing quite so sad as a young cynic; because it means they have moved from knowing nothing to believing nothing. Maya Angelou “To be sceptical is to say I’m willing to explore and learn and question. To be cynical is to say it is not true because nothing is ever true. To be…
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The man in the arena.
Let me borrow the words of this wise man, Theodore Roosevelt. He says, “ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,…
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Time a healer of all wounds ?
This is a common cliche. We tell our friends, family, the general universal population that in due time their wounds will heal. Today I am thinking that this phenomenon is in itself flawed. Time can not be an independent healing factor. Healing of tissues comes with fibrosis in which case scar(s) are formed. Some scars…
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You matter. I matter. We matter.
If we all put the goodness in use; that acquired by nature as human beings and everything we have learnt through nurture we shall realise that we are all an important part of the world. It’s like a symphony in which everyone finds their part and when we all play it right we create a…
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What if kindness became the new extreme ?
What if we filled the world with so much love and expressed so much kindness until we have given everything there is in us to give ? Kindness is expressed in all forms; simple as a smile offered to a total stranger, a good morning to the person who just stands next to you or…
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Everybody needs somebody.
Somebody who is your person. To the world you may be one person but to one person you can be the world. They are lucky who find someone like this in their lifetime. Their person. This is extremely special and would be the best experience in any human lifetime. Think about having someone in your…
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Hold out for love
I totally pulled this off of Facebook. Makes lots of sense. You can’t blame me. Am a sucker for love.