Wonder...

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

E. B. White

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This Year...

"This year I am choosing to live my wildest dreams. 

I wonder where they will take me."

Oprah Winfrey 

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To Strive... To Seek.. To Find...

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

Let it be your manifesto. Your credo. Your mantra...

Let it be your prayer.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Like Shakespeare and Michelangelo...

"And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don’t just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn’t do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."

Martin Luther King Jr.

Whatever you are going to do today?

Do it like Michelangelo painted pictures.

And do it like Shakespeare wrote poetry.

Awe the world with your passion!

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Angela.

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Passion is Purpose...

"Find something you are passionate about 

and keep tremendously interested in it."

Julia Child

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The Path...

"Do not go where the path may lead. 

Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Discover...

"Discover what you don't know about you."

Ann Charisse Kelley

I read these words. And I fell in love with them. They penetrated beautifully within and found me asking the question...

What do I still want to discover about myself?

And that's what these simple words provoke.

The reminder to taste life, devour it. Each precious moment. To discover what it is you want to discover. Your life. Your one beautiful, God given gift of privilege and honour to be alive and born into this world.

Nothing is ever without reason. And nothing is without purpose. And especially you being here. Alive. Awake. Right now. You came into this world with the instinct and yearning and the fight to breath and to be birth yourself into this world. The Italians have such a majestic name for birth... "Dare alla Luce". To give to the light.

And that's what each and every day should be for us. To seek with all our determination, the light... That light being our purpose, our passion, our lives, our selves. And not just to seek that light, but to live with the realisation, that we too, are light. As long as there is life in us, there is light in us.

So go on a journey within yourself and towards yourself. Awe at every little bit of you, be in fascination. Discover yourself. Discover your life. And make every day a part of this journey. A beautiful, beautiful, passionate treasure hunt. Create new maps. Take the backroads and sideroads. Surrender to the detours and sometimes even the stumbling stones, because there's something beautiful to be discovered there too.

Discover. Journey. Taste. Devour. Breathe. Touch. Feel.

Be passionately curious.

And Ann Charisse, thank you so much my dear for leaving those simple and provokingly powerful few words behind here, for me to read.

Ann Charisse is a darling reader here at My Beautiful Words. I almost dare to say, I believe she found me since the beginning days, when I only had a handful of readers. Ann, I adore you so.

Mind you, I believe I adore all of you. I do.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Wanderlust...

And it starts in the heart.

"Wanderlust. The irresistible desire to travel, 

and to understand one's very existence."

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Explore. Dream. Discover.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you did not do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor and catch the winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Mark Twain

My wish for you today...

Explore. Dream. And discover.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Bring on the Wonder!

"Bring on the Wonder!"

Angela Gwinner

Are you ready? I know I am.

And if you are ready too, then write it beautifully below...

"I am ready."

Proclaim it. Declare it. Shout it out.

I know I am ready to find the wonders. Hunt them high and low.

I am ready to be the wonder, for myself, a friend or a stranger.

I am ready to create them and celebrate them.

Each and every wonder.

"Bring on the wonder! Bring them on!"

Much Loves, 

Angela.

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Climbing Mountains...

"You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you have climbed a mountain."

Tom Hiddleston

Step by step. Because each step matters.

You might stumble now and then. Leap now and then.

Sometimes even dance a step now and then.

But never lose your intention.

Step by step. Because each step matters.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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The Promise...

"I promise if you keep searching for everything beautiful in this world, 

you will eventually become it."

Tyler Kent White

Search for the beautiful in everything. And the wonder of it all.

Make it your purpose today. And each and every day.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Personal Callings...

"I have come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that is as unique as a fingerprint. And that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."

Oprah Winfrey

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Saying Hello... And Goodbye...

"You get a strange feeling when you are about to leave a place. You will not only miss the people you love, but you will miss the person you are now, at this time and this place, because you will never be this way ever again. But you are excited for the person you are swimming towards and look forward to the new you that awaits in the distance."

Azar Nafisi
Excerpts from "Reading Lolita in Teharan"

For all those wandering hearts and souls...

All those discovering hearts and souls, on their journeys.

Either from place to place, city to city, country to country.

Or simply, on a journey within. To your own dear self.

Much Loves,

Angela.


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Relax. Let Go.

"Relax. Let the steering wheel go. 

Spin around through the world. 

She is so beautiful."

Kurt Tucholsky

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Full of Wonder...

"Look for the little wonders of life today."

Angela Gwinner

Look for the little wonders of life today.

Because that is when you find the magic.

The magic in those little wonders, that we often forget.

And often neglect.

Make it your purpose, to discover things today.

To see them with new eyes, as though for the first time.

Or even as though for the last time.

Things, that have already always been there before you.

And even within you.

Be on a treasure hunt today. Find those wonders. Everywhere.

And in everyone. Yourself included.


And don't forget to smile, and say thank you.

For each and every wonder.

Because that's when it begins.

Wonderful happens when you realise, life is full of wonder.

And more importantly, that you too, are full of wonder.

Much Loves,

Angela.

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Lost and Found...

"We lose ourselves in the things we love. 

We find ourselves there too."

Kristin Martz

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What We See...

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for."

John Lubbock

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Please Be a Traveler...

"Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what is right in front of you. Because those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in."

Andrew Zimmern

Are you a traveler in life?

Whether across oceans or countries, or simply in that place you find yourself right now?

Will you try to understand this amazing world you live in today...

As though you've just discovered it for the very first time?


Much Loves, Angela.
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Find Your Light...

"Find your light. 

Because the world can't find you if the world can't see you."

Bette Midler

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