Do you find that you would rather hold on sadness than wanting to feel happy?, waiting hopefully to hear from your person? Do your friends find you tiresome to be with because all you can do is talk about your ex and so they no longer invite you out? Do you find, if you are…
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The Rainbow Promise
“There’s always been a rainbow hanging over your head.” — Kacey Musgraves “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou “You’ll never find a rainbow if you’re looking down.” — Charlie Chaplin “Life can be a storm, but your hope is a rainbow and your friends and family are the gold.” — Steve Maraboli🌈❤️🌿🌈❤️🌿🙏🌈☀️🌻🙏🌈🙏🌻☀️ The…
I believe in taking risks
“Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” – Helen Keller On the Zambian side of River Zambezi the water is almost still near the bank of the river. In there you can swim to mere centimetres away from the edge, and look…
Are you ready for a dive in a Shark Tank?
The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But when it comes to their waters – they haven’t held many fish for decades. Naturally, the fishermen had to go further out into the sea to secure their supply of fish. Their fishing boats just got bigger and bigger. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took them to…
Don’t think about tomorrow. Just try to make today excellent!
“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam “Life is short, and if we enjoy every moment of every day, then we will be happy no matter what happens or what changes along the way.” – Gretchen Bleiler The January 2013 issue of National Geographic Traveler highlighted cultural exchange between a high-school…
Open the flower of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” –Henri Matisse “The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated.” –Lester Cole “The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.” — Kahlil Gibran “The rose is a rose…
Your destiny depends on you
“Everybody thinks of changing the world, and nobody thinks of changing himself.” Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) I Wanted To Change The World (Poem) When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn’t change…
Seeing beauty in all things-imperfect
Wabisabi describes a way of looking at the world. It’s about accepting the transcience and imperfection of things. And thus, for the time we have left, seeing beauty in the things around us. For example, take a rough, cracked, asymmetrical, simple piece of pottery – seeing beauty in that is wabisabi. The term is made up of…
Koffee with Joe 