I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
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Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
Interpretation
Letting go of negativity enables personal growth and creativity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of releasing anything that causes unhappiness or holds you back in order to uncover your genuine self and unlock your creative potential. It suggests that by purging negativity from your life, you create space for positivity and self-discovery.
In practice
Use this quote when encouraging someone to remove toxic relationships from their life.
I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.
My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
What is love but a second-hand emotion?
My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.
You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.
You take your problems to a god, but what you really need is for the god to take you to the inside of you.
I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.
We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the “thick of thin things.” In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul.
I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself.
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.
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