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“I sit down and I close my eyes and I'm alive, really alive. Maybe more alive then I've been in a long time. More alive than I was before there was death in my life. It's a good feeling; knowing that death killed a part of me but brought life to another. There is a balance to it all and today I didn't quite nail it but it's not so much that I need to slow down or rest or sleep or eat, it's that I need to channel the vibration and feel it and own it and hone it in and center it around my heart. So I do. All this energy gathers at my chest and I feel it all and it's so fucking powerful everything goes silent. I hear nothing. Not the waves, not the dogs, not my busy mind. Just the beating of my heart and the stillness that arrives at the end of working hard and breathing deep.
It's drinking in the air that is a golden sunset. It's love.
It's life.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Energy, Life, Death, Stillness, breathing, alive
“I've come to terms with the fact that I'm broken. Not in a sad way, just in an it-is-what-it-is kind of way. Life happened and I've adjusted accordingly. We're all a little bit shattered. Pain and heartache comes our way and with time we develop patterns that we think will protect us... But that only keep us in fear.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Protect, broken, hurt, Heartache, Life
“We all just want to be loved. All of us. Deep down, every decision we make is based on our wanting to feel accepted and cared for. We all want to be loved and we can use that longing to create both heaven and hell.
Trusting in life, seeing the goodness in the people around us and staying present in our day-to-day actions will draw us toward love. We'll feel like we are flowing with life, things run smoothly and there will be a deep sense of calm beneath the ups and downs of our life situation. Moving towards love will always lead to more love.

It's when we let the fear of not having enough take over that our decision making takes a wrong turn. Suddenly we start directing our attention away from our true purpose and instead move towards ego, judgement and material things. Instead of trusting in the bigger picture we let fear take the reigns. Suddenly we get agitated. Stressed. Angry. We start looking at other people and feel threatened, jealous and insecure. So much of this world is build on fear and competition and it's a vicious cycle we have to break if we ever want to find true peace of mind. You'll know that you're on the right track when you can look at someone succeeding in the same field as you and feel genuinely, truly happy for them. Can you?

Take a step back and look at your current state of mind. What does your life look like right now? Are you moving in a direction of love? Or are you letting fear run your life? Do you feel safe or insecure? Trust or doubt?

Here is the key: Always choose love. Every time. That doesn't mean that you'll be avoiding difficulty for the rest of your life - it simply means that you've made the decision to let your heart guide you instead of your mind. Let feelings of insecurity be a sign to take a deep breath and become aware if what's stirring within you. Listen to the nudges of irritation that you are overcome with from time to time. They are here to teach you great things! Every difficult moment is an opportunity for you to choose love over fear. Be grateful for the lows as much as you cherish the highs.
Move with love and love will move with you. Give love. Give all you got. You can never run out.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Love, Fear, Life, Give, grateful, Gratitude, Simplicity, Trust, Insecurities, Create
“There is nothing more precious
than you
and your offerings to this world.
Let every step you take be in honor of your own magnificence.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Life, Honor, Magnificence, Offerings
“God lives in wild, reckless abandon of structure. Shake things up. Say yes when you normally say no. Break all the rules. Follow your intuition. Travel. Talk to strangers. Laugh out loud. Dance like you don't give a fuck. Yell at the ocean. Hug a tree. Spend all your money. Cry when you feel like it. Be naked more. Eat whatever the hell you want. Quit your job. Start a new one. Speak your mind. Fall in love. Have your heart broken. Fall in love again.
Live your life for YOU! You were born a free spirit. Act like it.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: live, Life, Free Spirit, embrace change, Self-improvement
“Trust that life will always, always, take you where you're supposed to be.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Trust, Life, trust the journey
“Balance is key. In everything you do. Dance all night long and practice yoga the next day. Drink wine but don’t forget your green juice. Eat chocolate when your heart wants it and kale salad when your body needs it. Wear high heels on Saturday and walk barefoot on Sunday. Go shopping at the mall and then sit down and meditate in your bedroom. Live high and low. Move and stay still. Embrace all sides of who you are and live your authentic truth! Be brave and bold and spontaneous and loud and let that complement your abilities to find silence and patience and modesty and peace. Aim for balance. Make your own rules and don’t let anybody tell you how to live according to theirs.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Balance, Peace, embrace life, Life
“Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be held onto. Clinging to people and experiences that were never ours in the first place is what causes us to miss out on the beauty of the miracle that is the now. All of this is yours, yet none of it is. How could it be? Look around you. Everything is fleeting.

To love and let go, love and let go, love and let go...it's the single most important thing we can learn in this lifetime.”
— Rachel Brathen, Yoga Girl
Tagged: Love, Life, Moments, Experiences
“We’ve all experienced the frustration of our 20s going nothing as planned, so why do we still feel like we’re the only ones who are struggling? This lie that we’re all alone in our struggle is a powerful magnifier of depression, anxiety, and confusion in our 20s. It’s vital we blow this ugly lie up. So right now, if you feel like you’re stuck between being adult and child, neither growing nor grown. —you’re not alone. If you feel like you’re struggling through a Quarter-Life Crisis you swore you’d never have. —you’re not alone. If you’re wondering when you’ll ever feel like yourself again. —you are not alone. If you’re searching for a place to hang up your coat because it actually feels like home again. If you’re staring at your gray, cubicle walls wondering how the heck you ended up here. If you’re wondering if God changed His number and forgot to pass the message on to you. —you know what I’m going to say. Call a friend. It’s up to you to make the first move. Share war stories and strategies for dodging bullets. You’re not alone. And just knowing that fact can be enough to breathe life into that which has felt suffocating.”
— Paul Angone, 101 Secrets For Your Twenties
Tagged: 20s, Alone, Twenties, Life, Growing Up, Quarter-Life Crisis
“We’re in our 20s. It’s okay to be single. It’s okay to be engaged. It’s okay to black out on occasion and throw up in your dresser drawers (oh it’s not? sorry). LIVE FOR YOURSELF. Figure out what you want. Find out who you really are. Don’t force anything or make choices based on what other people are doing. It’s just LIFE. Don’t feel like you have to abide by a timeline. DO YOU. What’s the rush?”
— Samantha Matt, Some Truths About Getting Older
Tagged: 20s, Twenties, Twenty-Something, Growing Up, Partying, Living, Life
“26 shows up in the middle of coffee one morning and hands you a freshly printed memo that reads: ‘You’re going to get old one day and die. You’re cool for now, but it will happen. You’re officially on notice. You won’t be young forever.’ And then 26 struts out of your office, like an unconcerned dick, having nonchalantly just changed your entire perspective.”
— Jessica Blankenship, What Happens When You're 26
Tagged: 20s, Twenties, 20-something, realization, Life, Growing Up
“I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there’s a life after that, I’ll love you then.”
— Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
Tagged: Brutally Honest, Love, True Love, Passionate, Life, romance
“I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.”
— Ian McEwan, Atonement
Tagged: Brutally Honest, Passionate, Love, Life, True Love
“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.”
— Stephan Hoeller, 15 Quotes That Lifted Me Up When I Was Depressed
Tagged: Don't Give Up, beauty, Injury, Pain, Suffering, Life
“[I was] feeling—probably for the first time in my life—the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: unknown, Embracing The Unknown, Life, Living On The Edge, Excitement Of Life
“But there was so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on.”
— Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Life, Living life, Simple Things, Simple Pleasures, Living, Existing, To Do, My Favorites
“I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death, Trying To Understand Death, Too Late, Understanding Life, Trying To Understand, Knowing Better, Life, Future, Knowing, Love, Always Loving
“He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death, Trying To Understand Death, Too Late, Understanding Life, Trying To Understand, Knowing Better, Life, Future
“We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: teenagers, Invincibile, Invincibility, Being A Teenager, Life, Cannot Fail, strength
“When adults say, "Teenagers think they are invincible" with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don't know how right they are.”
— Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska
Tagged: teenagers, Invincibile, Invincibility, Being A Teenager, Life

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