while traveling
1.) Cherish the time you have with family. Make beautiful memories that are worth remembering. Don’t take family for granted. Friends come and go, family is forever.
2.) Your true friends will always be there for you, regardless of how many countries apart you may be.
3.) I never regret yoga after doing it. The hardest part is just getting started, but the way my body feels afterward is worth every minute I spend stretching and re-connecting my mind with my body.
4.) God is everywhere. I never have to feel lonely because He is everywhere we are, before we even get there.
5.) Appreciate everything. Every bite of food. Every minute spent with a good friend. Every sunset. Every kind encounter with a stranger. Every sunny day. Every rainy day. Every Bible verse. Appreciating the little things is my key to contentment.
6.) If something doesn’t make you happy – get rid of it.
7.) It is so much better to give than to receive.
8.) Money truly doesn’t matter. The happiest I have ever been is when I didn’t even have a wallet or a cent to my name.
9.) It is so important to spend time outside. I slept outdoors for weeks on end in Barcelona, and I have never felt more peace.
10.) No matter how you feel, there is someone else out there who feels the exact same way. Open yourself up to others and gain insight from people who have already been thru whatever issues you have in your life.
11.) You are never too old to create something new or learn a new skill.
12.) Those who matter don’t mind what you look like. Those who mind, don’t matter.
13.) True beauty is healthiness. The times in my life I have felt the most beautiful were the times I was being truly healthy. Not drinking, not eating processed foods, doing yoga daily and spending lots of time outdoors.
14.) The people you surround yourself with are of upmost importance in life.
15.) Don’t whine or complain. There are people out there who have far less than I do and far harder lives.
16.) Treat everyone the way you want to be treated and you will never be friendless.
17.) As long as you are a good, honest and loving person, good people really don’t care about much else.
18.) Age doesn’t matter. It really is important to spend time daily with both young and old.
19.) Respect animals and respect nature. We are all one or none.
20.) Time learning something new and having new experiences is never time wasted.
21.) Put time into relationships that matter. A hand written letter means far more than a facebook message. Things that take more time are appreciated when it comes to staying connected with each other. Show people you love how special they are to you.
22.) Give everyone a chance. There are too many good people in the world to live closed off to strangers. I have met some of my best friends by being open and aware to people around me. I met Ritchie on a plane while flying home from Monterey, Brittany while she was riding her bike outside my place in Paris and Sarah in the yoga tent during a rain storm in Barcelona as she was passing thru taking pictures.
23.) God is in control of my life. Since I am His princess, He keeps me safe if I allow Him to.
24.) Love is the most important thing in life; attempt to keep the spirit of love alive every day. True love is rare : 1 Corinthians 13 “1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
25.) Hard work pays off and when I say work, I don’t mean slaving away for a master to make more money, I mean creating something beautiful and new – either in my own life or in someone else’s.
