Journey

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” 
― Ernest Hemingway

You won't know what Sweet is until you've tasted Bitter.

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Moments

"It is the sense in every moment, that excitements fade, that everything moves on, that even the epiphanies and discoveries that seemed so exhilarating yesterday will soon be forgotten as the world flows on. You can't hold on to anything." -Peter Matthiessen, author of The Snow Leopard-

Memories are moments, moments are fragments of time, and time is fleeting.

The joy you experience today may decline into a strange sense of void the next day. It's really hard to hang on to the best moments in life. Even pictures and videos - the most powerful tools to capture special moments - fail to bring back the exact emotions you felt at the time the photo/video was taken. You may experience a slight tinge of happiness or nostalgia, but you won't feel the excitement from blowing off the candles on your 12th birthday, or the adrenaline rush when you passed your driver's test.

This is exactly why people say, "Cherish the good times." It's like a tape on replay; reminding you to constantly live in the present and enjoy the good moments because "good moments are hard to come by."

But no matter how hard we try to hold on to a good moment, it always manages to slip right out of our grip as time passes. Just as quickly as it happened, the moment fades into a memory, pocketed in our mind to be retrieved for future flashbacks.

Maybe it's true that we can't really hold on to anything. And maybe it's true that excitements fade as we endure new things. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy life to its fullest. It doesn't reduce us the ability to be happy, to be proud of ourselves, to honestly announce that we've lived a productive, blessed life. And if you think about it, time carries the weight of a new adventure beneath its wings, just waiting to be experienced.
So when one moment passes, another one is on its way. :)

Be ready.

You may not always end up where you thought you were going, but you will always end up where you were meant to be.

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Having faith in God gets you far, but sometimes all God asks of you is to just have a little faith in yourself.

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin-

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The crisp scent of autumn brings a warm rush of joy.

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If autumn was a flavor, I'd have it everyday.

"Life isn't measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that steal our breath away." -Maya Angelou-

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Clouds floated into my life, not to carry rain or storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

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Ming and I were driving to Melbourne city late one evening when the sky was a gorgeous canvas above us, and I thought to myself: "It's a blessing being able to witness such another lovely sunset. This is one of the reasons why life is beautiful."

If you can't live the life you love, love the life you live.

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Today is what you make of it. If you choose to be happy and have a good day, you will. So wake up every morning and put a smile on that lovely face. :)

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"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." -Albert Camus-

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In a single moment, all our lives changed. So many things are different now. It's how you handle those differences - those changes - that will determine the rest.

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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.  How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?  For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone.  That is where the writer scores over his fellows:  he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.  

Vita Sackville-West