Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

And he trusted his gut and his vision more than the small thinking of others. He’d made the decision that he would have his engine the way he would have it and nothing was going to stop him.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French author, Nobel Prize winner, fearless self-explorer

Stop insisting that people do things exactly the way you do them (especially the people in your life who have proven they most definitely won’t), notice where you’re being ridiculously demanding simply because it’s become your habit, and not because it’s really necessary, and constantly ask yourself “can I let this one go?”

This is when the real magic happens because mixing faith with gratitude is the High Holy Moly of Manifesting.

It’s the willingness to keep pushing through new challenges, not shrink from them back into your comfort zone, that separates the successful from the unsuccessful.

Using this scenario, some of the positive benefits of being rigid are that you’re always on time, you get shit done, etc. But there are also some negative advantages to being rigid too; you intimidate people into getting your way, you get to be right whenever someone messes up (which they’ll do often if you’ve really honed the rigid thing well),

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.