You should never listen to anyone who says you can’t. Only lend an ear to those who say you can. However, on occasion, you should probably listen to those who say you shouldn’t.

C.L. Harmon

It is not until we are beaten down that we realize the light we need to see and its warmth we need to feel are made not found. Once we learn others cannot do it for us, we will create the light we need to guide ourselves out of the darkness.

C.L. Harmon

The moment you sacrifice your principles, is the moment you become a slave. No one owns another who refuses to relinquish themselves. Regardless of the relationship, your principles, kept or surrendered, dictate how you will be treated.

C.L. Harmon

Because of past scars, we tend to proceed with caution when we move toward our desires. Often we miss or lose out on something worthwhile because we wish to control the natural rhythm inside us. Whether we move slowly or not, the possibility of failure is still real. But to lose a desire because we didn’t simply follow the rhythm of our hearts is an injustice to ourselves and to that or those which we desired.

C.L. Harmon

The value others have of you matters little if at all. No one knows your true worth but you. You can’t tell others, convince them or sell them your value. They will either know it or they won’t. And if they don’t it won’t matter. Because value lost to those who didn’t see it weren’t worth what you would have given them anyway.

C.L. Harmon

There are those with the skill to build instruments, those with the talent to play those instruments and there are those with the creativity to write the music for both. Each of us is given a gift and they all intertwine. As such, we should never envy the ability of another. Because what they do with their gift may provide exactly what we need to utilize ours.

C.L. Harmon

What you build through your pain is a monument. Not what you will leave behind but to what you are creating tomorrow. Our suffering is only the foundation which must be laid before we create the apex we call happiness.

C.L. Harmon

When God answers those who have been wronged, persecuted and abandoned, the reason for their suffering will be, I was waiting on the righteous to act on your behalf. We should always embrace that power of benevolence we possess and never shy away from the opportunity to be someone’s salvation.

C.L. Harmon

When you decide to take control, someone else’s control becomes nothing more than their opinion. And with that decision it becomes your choice to either respect or deny that opinion.

C.L. Harmon

What you want most in life might only take one more step forward, be one single step away. Barefoot on broken glass with a broken leg would I take that step if only to know I took the chance to learn how small the distance between where I am and where I desire to be.

C.L. Harmon