Christina

I love to travel there are so many beautiful places in the world I haven't been to yet. I love spending time with my child and my nephew. I like to paint when I am feeling inspired. I read myself to sleep every night. I enjoy spending time with my friends and family. I am deeply blessed with many wonderful people in my life.

"The soul has greater need of the ideal than the real. It is by the real we exist, it is by the ideal that we live."Victor Hugo
"What you find in your mind is what you put there, put good things in there." Mary Ford
I haven't a clue as to how my story will end, but thats alright....when you set out on a journey and night covers the road, thats when you discover the stars." Nancy Willard
"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached." Frank Kafka
"The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of the morning or evening. It is a little stardust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched." Henry David Thoreau
"Above all watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."Ronald Dahl
"We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us." Edward Lewis
"Do more than exist...live Do more than touch.....feel Do more than look...observe Do more than read.....absorb Do more than listen....understand Do more than think...ponder Do more than talk....say something."John H Rhoades
Persevere...life is tough Choose your friends wisely Humility is a greater virtue than pride Always be honest Count your blessings Forgive & Forget Treat each other as you treat your friends Remember you are in charge of your own attitude Never stop learning and improving All the flowers of tomorrow are the seeds of today....
"To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life."
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
To live with the conscious knowledge of the shadow of uncertainty, with the knowledge that disaster or tragedy could strike at any time; to be afraid and to know and acknowledge your fear, and still to live creatively and with unstinting love: that is to live with grace.
l The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Ancient Chinese Proverb
" Men are so simple and so ready to obey present necessities, that one who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived."Machiavelli "My will was perverse and lust had grown from it, and when I gave into lust habit was born, and when I did not resist the habit it became a necessity. These were the links which together formed what I have called my chain, and it held me fast in the duress of servitude." St Augustine

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing. It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive. It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon... I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow if you have been opened by life’s betrayals or have become shrivelled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain mine or your own without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy mine or your own if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful to be realistic to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes.” It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children. It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments. ~Oriah -