Sources of inspiration: 2011

Well, some of them

• Born This Way by Lady Gaga


• Not Alone by Darren Criss


• Fuckin Perfect by P!nk


• Harry Potter!


• Demi Lovato


• Skyscraper by Demi Lovato


• Darren Criss


• Dianna Agron


• My fellow feminists


• The love of demoracy


• seeing people fight for what they believe in


• Self-love and body love campaigns


• Movements like SlutWalk and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes


• people who are dedicated to helping others recover and heal


• happy people


• people standing up for themselves


• Jordin Sparks


• Maya Angelou


• the poem Still I Rise


• Beautiful Flower by India Arie


• The Help (novel)


• Tales of the City (novel)


• Looking for Alaska by John Green


• Winnie the Pooh


• A Thousand Splendid Suns (novel)


• Neil Patrick Harris


• Pretty/Unpretty by Dianna Agron and Lea Michele


• Jesse Tyler Ferguson


• Quote Blogs


• Christmas


• Winter

This isn't a complete list but it's accurate to the things and people that I found inspiration in.

Our Inspiration #4

A beautiful girl with a beautiful smile and a beautiful voice. Jordin Sparks is absolutely amazing.

She was also on my get up and go playlist that really made my mornings something beautiful. Her song "Faith" really touches my heart. I cry almost every time I hear it. It's really a song that everyone needs to hear at least once. It's important to know your strength and to know that it's important to believe in yourself and to keep carrying on. As if listening to this every morning didn't already brighten my day, her song "One Step At a Time" occasionally came on during lunch and I think I tweeted about it every time they played it during lunch. Some days, I really needed a mid-day boost like that.

We love her because of her incredible and contagious energy. It's really catchy. When she's performing, you can really tell that she's doing something that she loves what she does.

We love her because of her self-love. It inspires us to love ourselves. She rocks out with confidence because she is beautiful....she helps us remember that we're beautiful also.

Jordin Sparks is amazing.

songs I love

These are all songs are songs that I love that mean a lot to me. I love the lyrics and I can just listen to them when my heart needs to smile or when my mind is going crazy and I just need to relaaaaxxxx.

...quote.

"I know the world can be a brutal place but please don't let it steal your smile away."

-Jordin Sparks

The world loves your smile!

To all girls everywhere,

here are some songs that we should all listen to.
when we feel week or inadequate. when we think that it'll rain on us forever. Here are some songs to remind us how strong, brillant, and beautiful we are.

It can't rain forever.

=)

make the most of all the stress?

stress: physical or emotional tension; emphasis; pressure.

People always say that "dealing with stress makes you stonger." It may be true that stress makes us stronger but why does it have to be so hard to handle sometimes. When it makes us feel like there is a mountain on our backs and we feel like giving up because we can't see the point anymore, we need to keep going. We can't give up. I think there just may be a reason for all of our stress problems. I think we go under so much stress so that we can appreciate it more when our lives are going "normal" and things are going "smoothly." Apparently, everything is a lesson and the "stress lesson" teaches us that we can get out of those dark days and that there are better days are ahead. I'd still like to know why is has to be so hard but I understand that it can show us strong and powerful we can be.

"It Always Rains the Hardest on the People Who Deserve the Sun"

Clearly, a lot of stress and hard times means that we're special. Overcoming it and finding a way to smile makes us more powerful that we've ever known ourselves to be before. We can get through the dark days. It's possible. We just have to know that we can never give up hope!


These are somethings I look to when I'm stressed:

and MUSIC =]

It may be silly but they do relax me a lot and I love them.
listen to Faith by Jordin Sparks

"when the sky is darkest, you can see the stars. when you fall the hardest, you find how strong you are. Close your eyes rest a while, it's been a long long day. So come on baby baby, have a little faith."

-Jordin Sparks

Quite Possibly The Coolest Person Ever.

This is Christa Black. If you don't know who she is you must get on myspace and listen to her music at http://myspace.com/christablack! It should be mandatory and if you like something you should share it right?

Christa Black is very beautiful. Inside and out. Her songs are amazing! I don't know her personally but based on her tweets on twitter, she seems to enjoy life and we all know how important that is. She seriously has enough talent for a small army. A talent that the whole world should see and enjoy. Everything about Christa Black reminds me of the song Bottle of Sunshine by Milkshake. (listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PHGVJ-DaSA ) The lyrics in Christa Black's songs are powerful. She makes the kinds of songs that you feel were written just for you. I fell in love with each song the moment I heard it.

She's touring with the Jonas Brothers, Jordin Sparks, and Honor Society this summer playing in their band. I'm lucky to be going to them all and I'm super excited for it!

Basically, Christa Black inspires me so thank you Christa Black!!!

read her blog. she's such an inspiration! Her blog is more proof that we all need to know her. She's so special!!!

http://christablack.blogspot.com