Aspire to Inspire

Today marks six months since the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.  The massacre that left twenty children and six adults dead cast a shadow on our nation and prompted passionate debate about gun violence.  Today is a day to remember, grieve, and remind our loved ones how much they mean to us.

If you're like me, sometimes it gets hard to keep everything in this kind of perspective.  Work, school, commitments, hobbies, relationships, friends, family...it all begins to add up to a packed and often extremely hectic schedule that can become stressful and sometimes overwhelming.  It's important to remember that most of our stressors are blessings, even though sometimes they wear a disguise. Take a few minutes to read though the 53 Quotes That Will Make You Rethink Everything here, and you will do exactly that.  These five quotes were the most meaningful to me:

1.  "Everything you can imagine is real." -Pablo Picasso

12.  "The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy." -Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

22.  "Dwell on the beauty of life.  Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." -Marcus Aurelius

46.  "That's how stories happen - with a turning point, an unexpected twist.  There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.  It's like Tolstoy said.  Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story." -Haruki Murakami

52.  "Let yourself be open and life will be easier.  A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable.  A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." -Buddha