Everything Happens For A Reason

Sometimes people come into your Life and you know right away that they were meant to be there to serve some sort of purpose, teach you a lesson, or to help you figure out who you are or who you want to become.

You never know who these people may be, a roommate, a neighbor, a professor, a friend, a lover, but when you lock eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will affect your Life in some profound way.

Sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful and unfair at first, but in reflection you find that without overcoming those obstacles, you would have never have realized your potential, strength, will power, or heart.

Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul.

Without these small tests, whatever they may be, Life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere. It would be safe and comfortable but dull and utterly pointless.

The people you meet who affect your Life and the Success and downfalls you experience help to create who you are and who you become. Even the bad experience can be learned form. In fact, they are sometimes the most important ones...

If someone hurts you, betrays you, or breaks your heart, forgive them for they have helped you learn about Trust and the importance of being Cautious to whom you open your heart to.

If someone Loves you, Love them back unconditionally, not only because they Love you, but because they are teaching you to Love.

Make every day count. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.

Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Let yourself fall in Love, break free and set your sights high. Hold your head up because you have every right to.

Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself: for if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you, either.

You can make of your Life anything you wish.

Create you own Life and then go out and live it with absolutely no regrets.

Have a Fighting Spirit and never hesitate to get back in a struggle!

Most importantly, if you Love someone tell them, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.

And learn a lesson in Life each day you live. Someday everything will all make perfect sense.

So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, and keep reminding yourself that Everything Happens For A Reason!

Live Life to the Fullest! Very Inspiring...

* "Your Personal Philosophy is the Greatest determining factor in how your Life works out." Jim Rohn

* Combine your Knowledge. None of us is Smarter than All of Us.

* Welcome Greatness... it Lives all around you.

* Choose to: Think the Best about others. Believe the Best about others.

* Be Enthusiastic!

* Put people up, not down.

* Develop the Ability to find the Ability in others. It's Priceless!

* Help others... Be Liked... Be Right... Be Comfortable... Be Winners.

* Get your ego out of the way.

* Replace the word "I" with the word "We".

* Inspire someone to be the Best they can be.

* Be an Exception, not an exemption.

* Think like a person of Action, act like a person of Thought.

* Commit to something  bigger than yourself.

* Act as if what you do makes a Difference. It does!

* Go for it!

* Start an Epidemic of Enthusiasm.

* Throw your Heart over the bar, and your body will Follow.

* Don't waste time waiting for Inspiration. Begin, and Inspiration will find you.

* Be on a Mission.

* Never let weeds grow under your Dreams.

* Never mistake Knowledge for Wisdom.

* Never chase a lie.

* Never laugh at anyone's Dream.

* Never make excuses.

* Celebrate what you want more of.

* Make promises Sparingly. Keep them Faithfully.

* Develop a Tolerance for failure.

* Have no Limits.

* Keep your Promises.

* Never kill an Idea.

* Pursue Character before Prosperity.

* Be Loyal.

* Ask, "What if?"

* Give so much time to the Improvement of yourself that you don't have time to criticize others.

* Create an Atmosphere of Forgiveness.

* Make your word your Bond.

* Don't belittle, Be BIG!

* Learn to say NO! to the good... so you can say YES! to the Great.

* Be unpopular when necessary.

* Never be ashamed of what you Believe.

* Never let up when you are Ahead.

* Don't blow your own horn or you might miss the music.

* "Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." Jim Rohn

* You're Alive... Live it that way!

Nick Vujicic: Author of Life Without Limits

Nick Vujicic is an Australian preacher and motivational speaker. At aged seventeen, he started his own non-profit organization, Life Without Limbs. A longtime resident of Australia, he now lives in southern California. It was in recent years that Nick made the move from Australia to Southern California from where he now continues to passionately travel around the world, spreading a message of hope to all people.This is a short edited clip from one of Nick Vujicic's talks.

Nick Vujicic:
Thank you, thank you very much! Good Morning everybody. Morning. How you doing? All fine? All sweet? Nice to see you! My name is Nick Vujicic and it's a pleasure to be with you. I have no arms and no legs and I was actually born this way. I have no limbs but I have a chicken drumstick. We call this a little chicken drumstick because first of all it looks like one and second of all sometimes my dog thinks it's one. And I tell you, man, it's so funny, he comes up to start biting on it and I have to hit him in the head a couple of times.

So with my little foot I can also write. This is my pen here. I can actually write and type with my foot and I learned how to draw and all this sort of thing, so that's pretty cool.
I play drums. Do you believe me?
You like that? Wouldn't it be really cool if I could get this on my wheelchair and play it while I'm driving? And get some techno going like, here we go... one, two, three, four...

But honestly, along the way, you might fall down like this, alright? So what do you do when you fall down? Get back up! Everybody knows to get back up, because if I start walking, I'm not going to get anywhere. But I tell you there are some times where you fall down, you feel like you don't have the strength to get back up, so you sort of put a mask on your face and come to school and pretend that everything is okay when it's not and you go home, and lay in your bed when no one's looking at you, when you don't have to impress anybody and you're yourself.

And fear comes in. You know the fear that you have as soon as you walked into the doors of your house? Maybe it's a broken home. Maybe you have doubt in your life. Maybe you don't know for sure what's going to be happening in the future and it scares you.Maybe you're worried about what people think of you, what people say about you. Just that fear that paralyzes you and I just wan to ask you today, do you think you have hope?

Because I tell you I'm down here, face down, and I have no arms and no legs, it should be impossible for me to get up. I mean, you go home and tie up the legs and arms of your brothers and sisters and like push them down and see how long it's going to take them to get back up.You know what I mean? You know you can tell them that you'll see them tomorrow. You know what I mean? But this is the thing - it should be impossible for me to get back up. But it's not.You see, I'll try 100 times to get up and if I fail 100 times - if I fail and I give up, do you think that I'm ever going to get up? No. But if I fail and I try again? And again and again? For as long as I try there is always that chance of me getting up. Does that make sense? And it's not the end until you've given up. And just the fact that you're here, should persuade you that you have another chance to get back up.

There's still hope.I'm not here today to tell you that I understand your pain.I don't know how it feels to be abused.I don't know how it feels  to feel quote "fat" or you've got an eating disorder.I don't know how it feels to have a broken home. I don't know how it feels. But I know how it feels to have a broken heart. And I know how it feels to be alone. And I want you to know that I've found  my strength in Jesus Christ and you're going to find your strength in whatever you find in it. But I just want you to know that it's not the end. It matters how you are going finish. Are you going to finish strong?And you will find that strength to get back up, like this...

Don't give up. And you know that there is always someone out there who believes in you and who loves you just the way that you are.

A Motivational video created by a 13 year old

QUOTES FROM THE VIDEO:

Ernest Hemingway: Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.

Abraham Lincoln: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.

Emily Dickinson: Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.

Dale Carnegie: People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they're doing.

Albert Einstein: Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.

G. K. Chesterton: I owe my success to having  listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Arthur C. Clarke: The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Confucius: Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Thomas J. Watson: Encouragement is a necessary part of supervison.

Aristole: We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in the kingdom of the blind.

George S. Patton: Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Thornton Wilder: Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment everyday.

St. Clement of Alexandra: If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Albert Einstein: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.