The following are the sayings and prayers that appear on the sidebar of the site:
Waking up Full of Awesome;
There was a time when you were five years old ( you pick your age)
and you woke up full of awesome
You knew you were awesome
You loved yourself
You thought you were beautiful,
even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers.
you thought you were strong.
You knew you were smart.
Do you still have it?
The awesome.
Did someone take it from you?
Did you let them?
Did you hand it over, because someone told you you weren't beautiful enough, thin enough, smart enough,
good enough?
Why the hell would you listen to them?
Did you consider they might be full of shit?
Wouldn't that be nuts, to tell my little girl below that in another five or ten years she might hate herself
because she doesn't look like a starving and Photoshopped fashion model?
Or even more bizarre, that she should be sexy over smart, beautiful over bold?
Are you freaking kidding me?
Look at her. She is full of awesome. (look at yourself so are you!)
You were, once(still are). Maybe you still are in the process of getting it back (the awesome is alive and well inside of you).
All I know is that if you aren't waking up feeling like this about yourself, you are really missing out.
This being human is a guest house, Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and attend them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
-Thirteenth-century Persian poet - Rumi