"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." – Kahlil Gibran

 

Life is a movie, pick your own role—Climb your own ladder or you dig your own hole!

J. Cole

Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Benjamin Franklin

While chaos may cause uncertainty, it also offers opportunities that can create hope and bring about change.

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. -Oprah Winfrey

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. -Oprah Winfrey

I’m sitting on the clouds, I’ve got smoke coming from my seat. I can play basketball with the moon, I’ve got the world at my feet.

Lil Wayne

Ziploc Double Zipper Freezer Bag.

If life brings an opportunity to stretch outside of the comfort zone for a positive outcome, might as well do it!  The road back to what is considered to be the norm is more than likely still going to be available, should things not unveil as planned.  Sometimes that tug on the heart means a little more than heartburn or heartache. Sometimes it means all of the above!  Life’s sense of humor is rarely preferred, however that’s not the end all be all.   In the wise words of Lil Wayne, ‘Nobody gives you a chance, you’ve gotta take chances—your family tree, I will break branches!’  Put the abundance of meaningless excuses in an irreversible Ziploc Double Zipper Freezer Bag and toss it in the recycling bin for another individual to exhaust.  Be the difference.  It may prove to be invaluable.  Who said feeling vulnerable was necessarily a bad thing?

Happiness keeps you sweet, trials keep you strong, sorrows keep you human, failures keep you humble, success keeps you growing, but only family keeps you going.