dream. dream. dream.

Lately, I've been feeling like I'll never accomplish anything, like none of my dreams will come true or that they're too big for my own good. It's a horrible feeling to feel so inadequate. So small in a world so big. Today, I realized something. I realized that if I work at it and have compassion for what I'm doing, I'll have the power to become my dreams and make a difference......right? I sure hope so because I love my dreams, not the ones I have when I'm sleeping, the ones I can control and come from my heart. I love dreaming big and I think that we all should. Sometimes we should dream huge! I think that it's healthy for us to take a break once in a while and see what our heart and our imagination can create, sometimes it's beautiful and we just want it to come true and if it's our true heart's desire and if it's possible, I think that we should try our best to work at it. I know that in this new year, I'll be working on my dream. I'll be trying to make a million hearts smile. I don't know how it will work, but I'm going to try. I'll go into more detail when I get it started but I think I'm really going to make it work. I was so happy when I realized that I'm not just stuck in one place. I cried when I realized that it's possible for me to do bigger and better things. I felt like I was being held back but no one is holding me back because I believe in myself. If you believe in yourself, if you have hope for you and your future, no one can keep you down, no one can keep you away from what's yours. "When you have hope, you're nobody's prisoner." It's true! Don't forget to believe in yourself and follow your dreams. be safe and be careful. be beautiful. be you. be strong. be brave. be true to yourself. be the best you that you can be. be amazing. be powerful. be loving. be you. be a dreamer. it's okay. don't be afraid. :)

the more than average girl.

Once upon a time, in an average town, in an average house, there lived an average girl named Amani. Amani was always very sad and confused because she felt like everyone in the world was always really sad or really angry. She spent most of her days crying for all the sad hearts in the world. When she couldn't take the confusion anymore, she decided to ask God for help. Her special prayer went like this:

Dear God,

Help the world to smile again. Please end the pain, the sadness, and the tears. Please bring people happiness. Comfort the sad, the sick, and the lonely. Heal the broken hearts. Help us bring happiness back to our faces. Help us achieve peace. Help us to let love into our hearts again. I don't want to cry anymore. Please help.

Amen.

It's possible for the world to be happy again. It's a goal that we all need to work together to achieve. It's possible and we can make it happen. We need the help of ourselves and othes. We need to know that we can't do it alone. We need to know that it's possible to make this work. :)

Also, the power of prayer is amazing. If you've never tried it, go ahead and go at it. It has the power to work wonders. :)

because I believe too.

this is one of the most beautiful things I have ever read :)

Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

"DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. "Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. "Papa says, 'If you see it in THE SUN it's so.' "Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

"VIRGINIA O'HANLON."115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET."

VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except [what] they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no VIRGINIAS. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, VIRGINIA, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

hi. i love you.

• ek is lief vir jou.
• unë të dua.
• i love you.
• Ana Behibek
• Te dua
• yes kez shat em siroom
• eu te amo
• Ngo oi ney
• Wo ie ni
• Ik hou van jou
• Je t'aime
• Ámote
• S'agapo
• Wa ai lu
• aina nangbu nunshi
• Main tenu pyar karda haan
• Ti amo
• Aheri
• Te sakam
• Wo ai ni
• Gwa ai lee
• Mo ni efe re

I don't know what language you say it in but I hope you know that love is important and it's meant to be shared. I love you. You are loved.

steps to loving you!

• It starts with knowing who you are. Knowing your values, what you believe in, what you stand for, what's important to you.
• Then you have to understand, that as beautiful as you are, you have flaws. Flaws that you need to embrace because they make you who you are. You can't spend your life stressing out over your flaws. They're beautiful and you need to love them. They're a part of you.
• After you've learned to love your flaws and leave them be, find the good in yourself. Figure out what makes you special and what you love about your body, your self, and your personality. Focus on the good for a while and let it make you happy.
• It's not all easy, but this may be one of the hardest parts. You need to learn to love and respect others. Accept them for who they are. It's possible and you can do it.

when you love yourself, you believe in yourself and anything and everything is possible. It'll make you stronger and when you love yourself, your beauty shines through for all people to see!

love project

Hey, it would help me a bunch if you could fill in these sentences.

I am beautiful because...
I am strong because...
my favorite part of my body is...
One thing that is worrying me right now is...
One thing I'm looking forward to ...
I'm different from my closest friend because...
I'm similar to my closest friends because...

It's a step to loving yourself. I'm going to put them together and it will be really cool. It will help you relfect on yourself and how wonderful you are. if you can please finish the sentence and then leave it in a comment
I would really appreciate the help!

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love quote

"Love isn't love 'til you give it away."

-Disney's Circle of Friends

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deeper than the ocean

Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
he wrote a
poem
And he called it "Chops"
because that was the name of his dog
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and a
gold star
And his mother hung it on the kitchen door
and read it to his
aunts
That was the year Father Tracy
took all the kids to the zoo
And he let them sing on the bus
And his little sister was born
with
tiny toenails and no hair
And his mother and father kissed a lot
And the
girl around the corner sent him a
Valentine signed with a row of X's
and
he had to ask his father what the X's meant
And his father always tucked him
in bed at night
And was always there to do it

Once on a piece of
white paper with blue lines
he wrote a poem
And he called it "Autumn"
because that was the name of the season
And that's what it was all about
And his teacher gave him an A
and asked him to write more clearly
And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
because of its new
paint
And the kids told him
that Father Tracy smoked cigars
And left
butts on the pews
And sometimes they would burn holes
That was the year
his sister got glasses
with thick lenses and black frames
And the girl
around the corner laughed
when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
And
the kids told him why
his mother and father kissed a lot
And his father
never tucked him in bed at night
And his father got mad
when he cried
for him to do it.

Once on a paper torn from his notebook
he wrote a
poem
And he called it "Innocence: A Question"
because that was the
question about his girl
And that's what it was all about
And his
professor gave him an A
and a strange steady look
And his mother never
hung it on the kitchen door
because he never showed her
That was the
year that Father Tracy died
And he forgot how the end
of the Apostle's
Creed went
And he caught his sister
making out on the back porch
And
his mother and father never kissed
or even talked
And the girl around
the corner
wore too much makeup
That made him cough when he kissed her
but he kissed her anyway
because that was the thing to do
And at
three a.m. he tucked himself into bed
his father snoring soundly

That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
he tried another poem
And he called it "Absolutely Nothing"
Because that's what it was really
all about
And he gave himself an A
and a slash on each damned wrist
And he hung it on the bathroom door
because this time he didn't think
he could reach the kitchen.

This poem is called, A Person, A Paper, A Promise, written by Dr. Earl Reum.
Isn't it sad? My wish for you all is to understand that the world in which we live is brutal, it's rough, it's confusing, it's real but it can be beautiful. It will give us strength. You are not alone. You 're stronger than you think. You can make it. Please don't give up. You are beautiful. B-E-A-U-tiful. You are worth so much. You're not worthless, you never were, and you never will be. Sometimes things are hard but they'll make you stronger and you'll get past it. You're going to make it. I know you're tired but you can take it. You'll get the energy to make it through. You'll find the light to lead you out of the darkness and your heart will sing and be happy and you'll feel the love. The sadness will go away. You'll accomplish things you can't even imagine right now. Don't be afraid, don't run away. You're amazing and you're going to make it. You deserve the sun and the stars, the moon, the clouds, and all the smiles in the world. You deserve it all. Your life is precious and beautiful. It's wonderful and perfect. You may not see how precious your life is but treasure it. It's a wonderful thing. Please don't hurt it. Don't destroy it. Don't tarnish its beauty. Please! I love you. I'd love for you to be happy. I'd love to see you smile. A beautiful and happy smile. I'd love to see pain and sadness vanished from the world forever. I want all hearts to be healed. I believe that we can work together to achieve that. We can make it happen through love. Love is magical. Hope is magical but they're both real. They're real and we can use them to change the world and make it better place. A place that we deserve and a place that our children and their children deserve. A beautiful place built on love and fed with happiness. It can happen and it will. It's possible if we all believe and know that it's real. Know that a better tomorrow is possible and we can all work towards it. Tell someone how amazing they are. Tell someone that their smile is beautiful and that it warms other people's hearts. Tell someone that they are loved and not alone. Believe it. Understand it and spread the word. Together we can spread love to every heart and the world will be a better place. We can do it. I believe. Do you?

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What is your definition of beauty?

hmmm....beauty is being yourself, believing in your dreams, believing in yourself, caring about others, loving yourself, loving others, being respectful, being thankful,being as strong as you can, and being true to yourself.

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