"The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be."

I know, its been a very long time since I posted but its time to get back up on these quotes of the day!

"The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be."

Gosh, how true is that, right? It's funny how we hear all the time people complaining about life, about how horrible their life is. I admit, I've done it. I've done it more than once, more than twice, heck more than 20 times!

I always thought my life was horrible, every little problem that would hit me hard in the face made me feel it was all over. But, little by little I was beginning to realize that all these little obstacles and difficulties were simply lessons in life. I live by "No Regrets, simply Lessons Learned."

If we live everyday by having no regrets, we learn to live by our mistakes which end up being lessons learned. They are our knowledge to help us out in the future, our inspiration to keep going on another day.

It's better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. It's better to have felt what true "love" really is, to have had that moment in your life even if it gets taken from you one day than to have never felt what "love" trully is and what "being in love" is like. You could tell yourself one day in the future after whatever heartbreaking moment took that love from you, that you lived through it. That you felt it, that you know what its like to love someone like you've never loved another. When that moment was there, it was special, it was beautiful. You were able to experience a little extra in life.

I like to think of challanges and difficulties in life as a stairwell. In life, were moving up, moving forward, then suddenly something hits us right in the head. Do you really want to move a step down? After all those steps you've already taken to get to them top, is it worth it to take one or two steps down? No! You want to keep moving forward dont you? Because if you do, you know at the top is exactly all you wanted! When you get to the top, you know you've made it! You've made it to that point in life you've always wanted! Don't let any little problem get in the way of you continuing to go up those steps. Don't be a failure, don't ever be a failure and give up and decide to walk down the steps in life you have worked so hard to go up.

If life ever throws you those curve balls, you take them on and let that be your inspiration to keep on going. To tell life "I'm not going to let you get to me!" Brush it aside, be strong. Let it make you a stronger person, the bigger person.

I could tell you that I am a stronger person now than I was years ago, simply because of all those curve balls I've had in life. I held on to them, and I told myself I wasn't going to let them keep me down. I was going to take them as lessons learned in life, and as my inspiration to keep on going another day and in the end it has made me the stronger person.

So remember, when life hits you hard in the face, take that as a lesson in life and to help you be the bigger person in the end to help you get to the top.