Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

- Oprah

And once again, Miss O is spot on! I do believe that we choose our own path and when we already make a choice and made a wrong one, it is hard to go back and choose again. But we can do that. We can change our course. It’s all up to us.

If we agree that the bottom line of life is happiness, not success, then it makes perfect sense to say that it is the journey that counts, not reaching the destination.

I do believe that it’s really not the result itself but the quest to achieve that result is the one that really counts. Just like what the song says…

There’s always gonna be another mountain, I’m always gonna wanna make it move. Always gonna be an uphill battle…
Sometimes I’m gonna have to lose.
Ain’t about how fast I get there. Ain’t about what’s waitin’ on the other side…
It’s the climb.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been ‘lucky.’

- Oprah

I believe this, too!

Life can change in an instant. Sometimes it’s the result of a chance encounter, or the reading of a letter discovered at the bottom of a jewelry box…And sometimes it happens over office supplies.

- Maria Wilhelm & Dirk Mathison

Happy Monday everyone!

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain

I hope you are all enjoying your week. Remember what the quote said, sail away from the safe harbour. Get out of your comfort zone! There’s so much out there for us to explore and discover.

Happy mid-week everyone!

…There is no vocabulary for love… love that’s lived in but not looked at, love within the light of which all else is seen, the love within which all other love finds speech. This love is silent.

- T.S. Eliot

Any plans for tomorrow? Or are you one of those people who thinks Valentine’s Day is overrated?

Happy Love Day to all!

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to ever let us down, probably will. You’ll have your heart broken and you’ll break others’ hearts. You’ll fight with your best friend or maybe even fall in love with them, and you’ll cry because time is flying by.

So take too many pictures, laugh too much, forgive freely, and love like you’ve never been hurt. Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances. You just have to live life to the fullest, tell someone what they mean to you and tell someone off, speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someone’s hand, comfort a friend, fall asleep watching the sun come up, stay up late, be a flirt, and smile until your face hurts.

Don’t be afraid to take chances or fall in love and most of all, live in the moment because every second you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness you can never get back.

Happy weekend everyone!

Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.

- Grey Livingston

You can be beautiful when people look at you. But you have to have something sensible that will come out of your mouth to be able to sustain being beautiful in the eyes of the people looking at you. You know what they say about beauty and brains, right?

Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life.

- Oprah

Money isn’t everything. Sure, it buys and gives us comfort. But it can’t buy us happiness. We can get happiness in so many different ways, even in ways where money won’t matter.

Live the best life.

This year, I intend to do that. I intent to live healthy as well. Slowly until it becomes a habit and a lifestyle.

Found this quote today and I thought of sharing it with you…

I also read a quote from Paulo Coelho…

Don’t try to predict or forecast. May your life be full of adventures.

And both quotes are right! Where’s the sense of adventure for a person who knows his tomorrow?

Happy Monday everyone!

Christmas can’t be found on a tree or in a package. It comes with the rich connections we make with those around us and with the nurturing we extend to ourselves and others—those are the gifts that count.

- Oprah

Truth is, I cherish the greetings sent to me. Text messages sent, calls made, even the unexpected greeting cards. I cherish all those and I never forget. I am a person who’s easy to please. And when I feel like you really made an effort to remember me, it touches my heart like nothing else does.

There is one rule: If you aren’t having fun with your clothes—if you don’t enjoy wearing what you have—you are wearing the wrong things!

- Randolph Duke

I can be kikay but I don’t follow trends. I normally go with what’s comfortable. I’ve been that way ever since. I once tried following what’s “in”. I felt stupid the whole time. It just wasn’t me. It will never be me.

Go with something that will make you feel good and comfortable. It’s YOU that matters. Not the opinion of others. At the end of the day, it’s YOUR mind and body who will enjoy or suffer anyway.

The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances.

- Valerie Steele

Fashion is supposed to make us feel good about ourselves. We should create our own, one that will make us comfortable in our own skin and not one where we feel self-conscious at all times.

Don’t you think?

Whether we realize it or not, all of us are responsible for creating the body we live in.

- Deepak Chopra

We can blame everyone and everything around us for being unhealthy, for being overweight. But then at the end of the day, it is YOU and ME who decide to put that tasty morsel of food into our mouths that made us gain weight, made our cholesterol level shoot up.

Own up to it. And start from there.

Eat only what you truly enjoy, and truly enjoy what you eat.

- Martha Beck

I eat almost every food served to me and I enjoy eating all of it. Does that count? Hehe

Many of life’s failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

- Thomas Edison

Never give up!

I took advantage, sucked up the nutrients that I could find, forged relationships with others in order to grow, bathed in the sunlight of the moment.

- Novella Carpenter, from Farm City

I realized that I’ve been receiving a lot of quotes in my cellphone’s and Gmail’s inboxes. And since I’ve been receiving so many of these great quotes, I will be sharing it with you. ‘Yung iba nga di ko talaga dini-delete eh. I really find it touching and inspiring. I love quotes that leave me wondering what positive thing it can bring to my life.

Either I will post one daily or every other day.