Perspective

I’ve been working out a few days a week since March 14th. Usually I’d be giving up around now, but I have a feeling this time it’s going to be different. Not only do I have a goal, Spartan Race, but I have a different mindset. Usually I try to be perfect, creating a workout schedule, and sticking to it, making sure every single meal is healthy etc. But the minute I skip a day or have a snickers instead of an apple I give up. I figure everything I’ve done up to that point was ruined by that one bad decision…or 3. Not this time. This time I’m focusing on just doing my best. If I mess up I’ll just get back on track. A scattered work out is better than no workout at all right?! 

International Women's Day

brooklyn-savvy-tv:

womenrockscience:

Happy International Women’s Day everyone. Here we are celebrating lesser known women who have dramatically advanced science and humanity as a whole. 

Sources: UNESCO, Scientific American, The Smithsonian, NLM, Stephan, HoF , NWHM

Looking to celebrate International Women’s Day in NYC? Visit this website for a list of events —> http://www.internationalwomensday.com/esearch.asp?country=223&town=New+York+City#.VPxxIIHD9Ds

twloha:

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”-Confucius

Source: restlessmess

Live not for Battles Won.
Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.
Live in the along.

Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One
(via bookmania)

Your mother did not raise you with a wolf in your chest so you could howl over losing a man.

read this on here today and i haven’t stopped thinking about this quote since (via pluiedem)

‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all.

Emily Dickinson (via twloha)

firstbook:

Today is International Day of the Girl. Celebrate & strengthen your sisters, daughters, mothers, & friends around the world.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Anna Quindlen, Every Last One   (via exoticwild)

No Repeats

She said “I want us to be great, to make a difference, to follow our dreams.

I said "I don’t want to have this conversation in 2 years.”

I wonder how many times I’ve practiced self sabotage.

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cleophatrajones:

caramelblackness:

flightlesslexxii:

Jeralean Talley is 115 years old 

the oldest living American

These are her hands when she was 113

I hope her kids, grandkids, great grandkids, whoever her family is, is taking advantage of being in the presence of living history…

Bless

humansofnewyork:

“There have been very good parts and very bad parts, but in the end, I love life. Every night before I sleep, I ask God for three more years, so that I can make it an even one hundred. Then I recite a blessing that my mother gave me when I left her in Poland. It was the last time I saw her. The blessing is much more powerful in Hebrew, but it says: ‘Wherever you go, may people always recognize that you have a beautiful heart.’”

(Jerusalem)

tulipnight:

Orbit by Ben Stieger

you who weigh your worth like dust,
why do you walk with
the posture of a whisper?
you tiptoe even when you’re alone,
as if your footsteps are not
important enough to be
heard by the ghosts you store underneath your floorboards.

do you tire of apologizing
for your existence?

if only you knew that it is
you who diamonds envy.
it is you who the sun
looks to for light.
who told you to be anything
but majestic?

“you matter”

- afro-virgo

(via afro-virgo)

kushandwizdom:

Motivational quotes

spiritualinspiration:

www.facebook.com/naeemcallaway

I do not need someone to complete me
but if you wanted to
we could walk next to each other
into whatever is coming next.

Meghan Lynn (via skeletongarden)

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people…but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

― Steve Maraboli  (via raychillster)