Destiny...

"We make destiny with every turn, every choice."

Nora Roberts

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Greatness.

You Have a Power...

"Wish someone well, 

as if you had the power to make their greatest dreams come true."

Danielle LaPorte

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Inspiring Life. Inspiring Love.

Only the Gentle...

"Only the gentle are ever really strong."

James Dean

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Greatness.

Break Free...

Break Free.

Simple words, powerful words.

Maya Fiennes wrote those words as her resolution for this year.

And here we are, today. And the new year already feels so far away.

We may have forgotten a few of those promises made to ourselves.

And there is no need to shame for that. Today itself, it is a new day.

And it is this day that matters, this moment that matters.

It's not just the year, but every single moment and day.

So let's Break Free. Free of shame or guilt.

Break Free of past beliefs. Free of once upon a time.

(If it was an unhappy ending.)

Break free from a cage. Just to dare ourselves to fly.

Break Free of doubt. Free of fear.

Break Free of what holds us down, holds us back.

Break Free of whatever it is you decide, you want to be free from.

What a powerful liberty. What a beautiful choice.

Now let's see you run with that.

And I'll see you and meet you there. Flying... and Free.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Greatness.

It's a New Day...

"It‘s a new day. Say thank you. Show yourself to the world. 

And shine. Because here you are. A new day. A new beginning."

Angela Gwinner

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Life Lived.

That Inner Child...

"I believe that everyone else my age is an adult,
whereas I am merely in disguise."

Margaret Atwood

Never lose your inner child...

Your playful, trusting, passionately curious and brave inner child.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Inspiring Life. Inspiring Love.

Heart Touching...

"I was never really insane. 

Except upon the occasions when my heart was touched."

Edgar Allan Poe

Let your heart be touched today...

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Sharing Life. Sharing Love.

You Make a Difference...

"What you do makes a difference, 

and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Dr. Jane Goodall

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Greatness.

My Mission...

"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I cannot be loved as I am."

Anaïs Nin

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Encouraging Courage. To Be Yourself.

Big Dreams...

"Never give up on what you really want to do. 

The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts."

Albert Einstein

Step into your power. Step into your dreams.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Greatness.

The Push and Pull of Life...

"Life is like a door. 

If it is written 'pull', please do not 'push'."

Paulo Coelho

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Encouraging Courage. In Each Other.

Start Your Day...

"Watch now, how I start the day. 

In Happiness. In Kindness."

Mary Oliver

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Inspiring Hearts. Inspiring Souls.

White Hot and Passionate...

"I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be."

Roald Dahl

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Sharing Life. Sharing Passion.

Be the Love...

"Be the love you want to see in the world."

Angela Gwinner

Gandhi once said, "Be the change you want to see in the world."

Maybe that change can happen, if we, ourselves, simply start being the love we want to see in this world. And we, ourselves, start being the love we want to feel in this world.

What would happen if everything we do, everything we think and we say, if every way in which we respond, was simply done with love? The intent, the purpose, the soul and ambition of love...

There will be change. And wonders and miracles beyond our imagination. And yes, it begins with us.

Now... This Moment...

"The only thing you ever have is now."

Eckhart Tolle

This moment, right here and right now...

It is yours. Your moment.

Live it. Love it. Embrace it dearly.

With all your awareness. And all your gracious gratitude.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage. Together.

Kinds and Queens...

"We are all Kings and Queens 

in a Kingdom called 'My Life'."

Angela Gwinner

Be noble. Be majestic. Be humble. Be gracious.

Be loyal. Be grateful. Be gentle. Be strong.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Greatness.

Trust...

"Trust shows the way."

Hildegard von Bingen

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Greateness.

Your Path...

"You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, 

because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination 

you will ever need."

Jerry Gillies

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Greatness.

Your body has a language...

Your body has a language...

This morning I shared the words, "It is all in your mind. It is all in your heart." Now I believe, I have to add the thought, "And it is all in your body."

Elizabeth Gilbert shared this on her page. And I can only recommend you to watch Amy Cudder's amazing and powerful TED Talk. (Here it is)

Stand tall and hold your head to the sky, open up to tell the world you are here. But most important, tell yourself you are here. The world is waiting to hear you, to see you.

And share this with your friends. Let's get the word out there. There's room and space for the greatness in all of us!

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Greatness.

A Simple Smile...

"I will never understand all the good 

that a simple smile can accomplish."

Mother Teresa

Go out and put some goodness into the world today!

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Inspiring Hearts. Inspiring Souls.

The Power of Your Mind. The Power of Your Heart.

"It is all in your mind. 

It is all in your heart."

Angela Gwinner

Everything you are. And everything you want to be.

It is all in your mind. It is all in your heart.

See it. Feel it. Believe it.

The secret of the secret's secret.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Greatness. In Each Other.

What Are We Waiting For?

"What are we waiting for? 

Now is the time to live our life, our passion and our purpose. Now."

Angela Gwinner

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Encouraging Courage. To Live Your Life.

Go...

"Go where your best prayers take you."

Frederick Buechner

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Encouraging Courage. In Each Other.

The Beginning...

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. 

That will be the beginning."

Louis L'Amour

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Bringing Out the Best. In Each Other.

Namasté...

Namasté.

My soul recognizes your soul. I honour the love, light, beauty, truth and kindness within you because it is also within me. In sharing these things there is no distance and no difference between us. We are the same. We are one.

Namasté.

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Inspiring Hearts. Inspiring Souls.

Think...

"Think with your Heart wide open."

Unknown

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Encouraging Courage. Of the Heart.

Today. Tomorrow.

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Encouraging Courage. Within Yourself.

Imagine...

"Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace 

if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles."

Sheila Burke

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Inspiring Hearts. Inspiring Souls. Together.

Wonder...

"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."

E. B. White

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Encouraging Courage. Hand in Hand.

You Are a Superhero...

"A superhero is someone who invites her wisest, bravest, most alive self to come out and play. This doesn’t mean having all the answers, being unshakably strong or performing dramatic feats of heroism. It means being someone like you and someone like me. Someone who is anxious and uncertain. Someone who wants to live a juicy, full, courageous life, but doesn’t always know how. And someone who understands that vulnerability just might be the greatest superpower of all."

Andrea Scher

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Love Life. Passionately. And Out Loud.

Courage is Just an Anagram...

 "Courage is just an anagram for Happiness."

Julia Engelmann

In Germany, there is a video being passed around. A video of Julia Engelmann, a poetry slam and her words. And it is making people stop, and think, and be touched.

And the words that personally and most powerfully struck me...

"Courage is just an anagram for Happiness."

This is just a simple and rough translation of her message.

Do not let us only speak of staying up until the skies turn purple. Do not let us only speak of all the stories we could have written. Let us do the brave things, the crazy things. Let us have the courage to take off our masks, and see that underneath it all, we really are the same. Let us have the courage to look each other in the eye and to let someone know, just how much they really mean. Because one day we will be old. And one day there won't be enough time. And let us have courage. Because courage is just an anagram for happiness.

Thank you Julia.

I think we all needed that message. That little reminder.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Happiness.

Here's to Love...

"I wish I'd a knowed more people. I would of loved 'em all. 

If I'd a knowed more, I would a loved more."

Toni Morrison
Songs of Solomon

Here's to Love...

Here's to Everyone.
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Encouraging Life. Encouraging Love.

Shall We Dance?

"Life is a spiritual dance and our unseen partner has steps to teach us if we will allow ourselves to be led. The next time you are restless, remind yourself, it is the universe asking 'Shall we Dance?' "

Julia Cameron

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Inspiring Hearts. Inspiring Souls.

Today...

"Do something today, that will one day be a story you will love to tell. 

Make today a day, you will never forget."

Angela Gwinner

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Encouraging Courage.
To Dare. And to Believe in Yourself.

Be Yourself...

"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."

Oscar Wilde

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Encouraging Courage. Of the Heart.

Education of the Heart...

"My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'Education of the Heart.' Just as we take for granted the need to acquire proficiency in the basic academic subjects, I am hopeful that a time will come when we can take it for granted that children will learn, as part of the curriculum, the indispensability of inner values. Love, compassion, justice, and forgiveness."

Dalai Lama

Education of the Heart...

It could change the world.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage. To Love and Live All the More.

Your Time is Limited...

"Your time is limited, so do not waste it living someone else’s life. Do not be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Do not let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your own heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Steve Jobs

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Encouraging Courage. To Live Your Life.

Random Thoughts... You Have a Choice.

"You have a choice.
You always have a choice. Always."

Angela Gwinner

Reflecting on words of a conversation yesterday. Someone close to the heart telling me, "I didn't have a choice."

I heard those words on the surface and the conversation carried on and then suddenly I realised. Stop. Rewind. Go back a moment.

Did you just say, you didn't have a choice?

Maybe in that moment, I didn't hear those words. Rather I heard all the times in the past in which I spoke those words myself.

And I suddenly I realised how wrong those words are.

We have a choice. We always have a choice. Always.


I have a choice when I decide what I'm going to wear in the morning. I have a choice when I'm sitting at the café, declaring which coffee I want to have.

I have a choice when I see the homeless man sitting on the bridge, whether or not to give him a dollar. Or to smile at him to say "I see you, hello."

Or simply to walk on by, as though I didn't see him at all.

I have a choice when someone hurts me, on how I respond.

I can bend down to their niveau and throw hurt back, or I can rise above them.

With magestic dignity and greatness. And with calmity.

That choice is my ability to respond.

And that word in itself already says it all. My ability to respond is "My responsibility".

I have a choice when something doesn't go as planned. I can mourn. I can complain.

I can throw a tantrum like a little child that didn't get that toy they wanted.

Or I can give it another go. I can make the choice to see it as a treasure map hunt and that was the wrong clue.

Or I can simply decide that maybe, just maybe, that wasn't meant to be after all.

Something better is on the way. And that situation was just one of the stepping stones needed.

So suddenly I realised the defeat in those words "I didn't have a choice."

That in itself, was a choice as well.

So maybe that is how we have to perceive each moment. As a choice.

And with the same simplicity, as choosing what I want to wear, what I want to eat.

Asking myself in each moment, is this how I want to feel? Is this where I want to be?

Is this how I want to respond? Is this how I want to tell the world "This is who I am."?

I have a choice to change, or not to change. I have a choice to love, or not to love.

I have a choice to receive, or to keep my hands and heart closed.

I have a choice. And I can decide.

You have a choice. And you can decide.

We always have a choice. Always.


Just my little thought of the day.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage.

You Were Born With Wings...

"You were born with wings. 

Why do you prefer to crawl through life?"

Rumi

Photograph Credits: Gregory Colbert

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Inspiring Life. Inspiring Love.

Once You Make A Decision...

"Once you make a decision,
the universe conspires to make it happen."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What decision are you going to make today?

Much Loves,

Angela.
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Encouraging Courage. And Life with Passion.

Blessed Are They...

"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places 

where other people see nothing."

Camille Pissarro

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Inspiring Fascination. Inspiring Curiosity.

You are Magic...

"You are unrepeatable. 

There is a magic about you that is all your own."

D.M. Dellinger

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Encouraging Courage. Of the Heart.

Everything You Do...

"Everything you do, do it with Love."

Those are the words I wrote to myself this morning. On paper. With pen. A loving reminder, I needed to remind myself of.

I want everything I do to be filled with love, the essence and core of love. I want it to leave little trails behind, a gold dust of trails... The words I write here, I want to those words to be written with love. When I sit down to do my work, put my projects in motion, I want that to be done with love. When I pick up the phone, either to answer or to call, I want that to be done with love. When I pour myself a cup of tea, that too, I will do with love. I don't want to leave anything out. Not a single step, not a single thought, not a single moment.

And I will speak these words again and again, remind myself again and again, "Do it with love. Do it with Love. Do it all with Love.".

I believe when put love back into the focus of all that we do, that is when a shift occurs. Within us, but also around us. It becomes the energy we nurture ourselves with. It becomes the energy we surround ourselves with. Yes, maybe it becomes this little gold dust that we laughingly throw into the air and it does this beautiful dance around us. Yes, maybe it becomes our secret supernatural power... That little something that leaves people around you, wondering and saying in a Harry and Sally kind of way... "I'll have what she's having."

And maybe we'll never know of all the wonders and miracles and changes that our love can give and put into the world. But then again, maybe it's not even about that. Maybe it's simply about all the wonders and miracles and changes that our love first puts into our own life and world. And the rest... It just all simply and easily falls into place.

I wanted to share that with you today. Because just maybe, you needed that reminder too...

So here it is, with Love.

Angela.

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Inspiring Hearts. Inspiring Souls.

Feel the World...

"Feel the world, instead of trying to understand the world."

Deepak Chopra

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Encouraging Courage. Heart to Heart.

Decide Right Now...

Decide right now, how you are going to choose to live your day...

There is clarity in decisions. There is power in decisions.

And liberty too.

And the moment you decide, you also declare. Deeply within.

You go into resonation with your declaration. And life joins you.

And should something or someone bring a challenge along to test your decision, your declaration... Take a deep breath, silently decide and declare once again. And remember, there too, you have a choice... Your resonation. Or their resonation.

The choice is always yours.

So go ahead, decide right now, how you are going to choose to live your day.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Passion.

Being Love...

"Love should be like breathing. It should be just a quality in you, wherever you are, with whomsoever you are, or even if you are alone, Love goes on overflowing from you. It is not a question of being in Love with someone, it is a question of being Love."

Osho

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Inspiring Hearts. Inspiring Souls.

Desiderata...

Desiderata...

Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

Max Ehrmann
[written 1927]

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Encouraging Life. Encouraging Love.

A Subtle Truth...

"This is a subtle truth. 

Whatever you love, you are."

Rumi

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Inspiring Hearts. Inspiring Lives.

Your Depth...

"How deep do you live?
How deep do you love?"

Angela Gwinner

Question of the day. Answer of the day.

Be honest to yourself.

No one else, simply yourself.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Encouraging Courage. Encouraging Passion.

The World Needs More Hugs...

"The recommended daily requirement for hugs. Four hugs a day for survival, eight hugs a day for maintenance. And twelve hugs a day for growth."         

Virginia Satir

I believe, the world needs more hugs.

And I also believe, it's up to us...

How many hugs can you give today?

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Sharing Love. Sharing Passion.

Kindness and Mischief...

"I believe in kindness. Also in mischief."

Mary Oliver

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Inspiring Life. Inspiring Passion.