Imagine when meeting each other, instead of asking how life’s treating you, we asked what difference you had made in the world lately? How would you respond? Each day is freely given to us. Our gratitude towards it should be that we add something positive to fill it up.C.L. Harmon
Effort does not always provide an equal result. It is one of the aspects of life that values time more than reciprocity. Time offers lessons that have long-lasting implications which then become tools to hone our future efforts. And those tools are called wisdom, knowledge and experience which tilt each new effort from expected equal reciprocity to be heavily one-sided in our favor.C.L. Harmon
Every single human being has one thing in common; we all learn from those around us. This means we are all products of our environment and are vessels of what others instill in us. And that means we are influenced by imperfection. Knowing this means we should never trust the imperfection we know to become the absolute which we call truth.C.L. Harmon
The people who take risks and step out into uncertainty believing in a dream may not be the smartest people in the room, but they are certainly the only ones brave enough to fail and succeed on their own terms.C.L. Harmon
The truth doesn’t change because your opinion of it wants it to be different. And your opinion will not change unless you accept that the truth has no need or use for your opinion. C.L. Harmon
Unhappiness is life’s way of telling us something isn’t right with our circumstances. Uncertainty is life’s way of telling us circumstances can change unhappiness. Understanding unhappiness is life’s way of telling us that the change of circumstances must occur inside our minds before the world can reflect them on the outside.C.L. Harmon
Some people will always scribble outside the borders of the known reality. Because to them, if it can be thought of, then there is no border, but only the continuation of an incomplete slate to be written with the mark they place upon it.C.L. Harmon
Happiness is the realization that no one else can define it for us. Being happy, however, is the realization that that which defines us cannot come from anyone but us. C.L. Harmon
I once believed the world changes and I had to change with it. I have since learned people change and I don’t owe them a change. What I do owe is myself the option to grow towards the change I need to be happy in a world where nothing remains the same.C.L. Harmon
Gaining peace means first giving it to ourselves. And this means understanding what that costs. Peace is not free or even cheap. It has a price tag of cutting toxic people from our lives, being humble to those who are not, accepting unfairness with grace, and forgiving those who wronged us and have no remorse. It’s an investment where we buy from ourselves to keep others from selling us their baggage.C.L. Harmon
The only shortcut to any success is through failure and the only way through failure is learning how to succeed. If you want to master how to lead, to follow, to accept, to grow in wisdom and to succeed, then learn to listen, to be humble, to master grace, to live in faith and to fail without quitting. Only then will you know what it means to be successful. C.L. Harmon
There is so much more joy to life than what resides in our senses. What is interesting is that this joy is hidden outside those senses and can only be accessed through the actions of kindness, compassion, charity and forgiveness. To know how to access these, we must set our senses aside and take up residence in the senses of others.C.L. Harmon
If we change for others, but not for ourselves, we will always be a reflection of them. But if we change for ourselves, we then become a reflection for them as to how they can change themselves. C.L. Harmon
Travel through life with caution. Each leg of our journey defines our destination by who and what we choose to be and the speed at which we travel. Arrogance is a fast train to destruction while humility is a slow train to peace. C.L. Harmon
Human existence is a paradox where youth allows for the birth of beauty to live on the outside and aging allows for it to die and be reborn on the inside. C.L. Harmon
Laugh today because tomorrow may be absent of humor. Save another any way you can today because tomorrow may be their demise. Forgive today because tomorrow may be unforgiving to you. Speak today what is righteous because tomorrow may bring evil within the silence. Seek today what is hidden as tomorrow belongs to those who find the worth for it to exist. And seek who you will be tomorrow as today can only let you be so much. C.L. Harmon
There are two types of people in the world. Those who accept what is and those who embrace change. Those who accept seem to feel a sense of peace and those who pursue change seem to live with restlessness. But those who accept what is will never become what could’ve been because they do not seek change. And those who drive for change are always in motion, never knowing what it is to be at peace. But together they teach the other to become peace in an ever changing world. C.L. Harmon
I love you. I love you not because you provide for me, but because you exist. I love you because you are you and that is enough to love. I love you though you may hate me because hate leaves me small in a heart meant to grow. I love you though you fail me, because in failure I see I can be merciful. I love you not because you help me, but because you don’t. And in this I find I am okay on my own. I love you. I love you because I can love. And that’s enough…