motivating

To greet the present is to part with the past and future.

Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.

To act upon the outer world and change it, you must be first be fine to act upon yourself.

Jealousy, and attempting to match others in life and stride, is self-abandonment.

Control is an illusion that you must give up.

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.

Find your bones. Believe in what you are.

If you take society__ definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

Each of us has a mountain to climb. To reach the summit you need to understand who you are and what you can do. Without an idea of your strengths and weaknesses you cannot define your personal limits. Survival training helps you figure that bit out. It makes you stronger, more fearless and ultimatley resilient! There is no easy or pain free way to the summit _ you just have to endure and climb to it by yourself.

God would never place a dream in your heart that He didn't have the ability to fulfill.

You discover or re-discover yourself only through travel, and unplanned travel is the most exhilarating experience. I truly believe that not all those who wander are lost. But for the ones who are lost, wandering is the only way to find themselves.

Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.

Take too much time, and time will take you.

No story is worth telling without the twists and turns. Make them count instead.

Find what makes you happy and go for it with all your heart. It will be hard, but I promise it will be worth it.

In order to show your best skills and talents-you must share them, or no one will ever know they exist- Lorenzo Victory

It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I don't have to do anything but trust the process, trust my story and enjoy the journey. It doesn't really matter who I've become by the finish line, the important things are the changes from this morning to when I fall asleep again, and how they happened, and who they happened with. An hour watching the stars, a coffee in the morning with someone beautiful, intelligent conversations at 5am while sharing the last cigarette. Taking trains to nowhere, walking hand in hand through foreign cities with someone you love. Oceans and poetry. It was all very ordinary until my identity appeared, until my body and mind became one being. The day I saw the flowers and learned how to turn my daily struggles into the most extraordinary moments. Moments worth writing about. For so long I let my life slip through my fingers, like water. I'm holding on to it now,and I'm not letting go.