Author: Jocelyn Soriano

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Inspiration

Our Shared Memories

It’s so sad to lose our shared memories. It’s like losing a part of ourselves, especially when we want to travel back to those moments, but there is no one to go with us anymore. It is lonely, so sometimes, I try to think about eternity and how the past, present and future can exist together. When I enter eternity, I am no longer alone.

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.” — Henry Van Dyke

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Best Life Quotes

All is Quiet

 

Have you ever felt so sleepy, and all you ever wanted to do is lie down in bed for as long as you feel like resting? Times like that you don’t worry about what deadlines loom closely before you. Times like that and the world goes by as it does and you find out its okay to be left behind from the rat race that never seems to end. Times like that and you find silence. You find peace. You find what you’ve always wanted to have.

Sometimes all is quiet
And all is peace,
And there is nothing much to say
In the rustling of the leaves;
A child sleeps,
And a bird flaps its little wings;
And there is nothing much to say
In the rustling of the leaves.

Crossroads

Directions, directions, directions!

We’re all so worried where we’re supposed to be going that we often fail to appreciate right where we actually are.

Do I become less of a person merely by standing still? By all means no! Better to stand in peace than be urged to walk on out of fear.

Screaming



Ever felt like screaming? Sometimes the saddest part is not that somebody’s stopping you from doing so, but that nobody’s even there to hear you when you do.

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My Hope

Herein lies my hope:
That for every flower that withers,
another one blooms within me,
one that will remain
forever fragrant and fresh,
never ever to pass away.