“Oh how wonderfully you have grown since November of last year.”
"Hey. I don’t know what kind of day you’ve had so far, but I do know this is true you made it here, through the wild of June, and I hope July holds something beautiful for you. And if ‘something beautiful’ is small, and it does not seem like much, I do hope it’s just enough to remind you that even here, there is room for love. And while love might show up in subtle and seemingly fleeting ways, and you might find yourself with big questions lingering at the edges of seemingly ordinary days, I hope this July has one of those moments where your playlist shuffles in just the right way, to that one song that makes you feel like you’re going to be okay, and you are free to be just here, in July’s unknowns, breathing deep, anyway."
- Morgan Harper Nichols
Hope
"It is taking everything within me to keep waiting, but this is the miracle that I am coming to know; this desert journey has made me weary but my heart is still slouched toward hope. And I will believe I can know peace without knowing what comes next. I will trust in the waiting everything connects. Today is not in vain. And I will grow and I will change in beautiful, meaningful ways."
- Morgan Harper Nichols
Hope
"The same light you see in others is shining within you, too."
- Morgan Harper Nichols
Self-awareness
"Words to repeat to yourself at the end of July: I am proud of the ways I am learning to let go. I am free to feel what I need to feel for everything that happened this month. I am free to be gentle with myself as I work through those feelings. The small amounts of progress I've made this July are integral parts of my growth. I am grateful for the progress I’ve made in learning when to say ‘no’ and when to say ‘yes.’ I am grateful for every opportunity I’ve had to grow in empathy and compassion. I am grateful for the good music that found me this month. I do not know all of what the future holds, but I will be grateful for slow and steady growth. No matter what awaits me in August, I will continue to breathe deep. I will travel through each day seeking big and small ways to practice peace. Somehow, after everything, I am learning to fall in love with the journey."
- Morgan Harper Nichols
Personal Growth
"One day you will look back and realize that all along you were blooming."
- Morgan Harper Nichols
Personal Growth
"We are all capable of change, both in our actions and our hearts."
- Beauty and the Beast
Personal Growth
"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
- Paulo Coelho
Personal Growth
"If the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person."
- Clayton M. Christensen
Personal Growth
"I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself."
- Arianna Huffington
Personal Growth
"The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you find out why."
- Mark Twain
Personal Growth