"The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Former President of Liberia)

I was looking up women in leadership quotes for this club I’m in and I saw this one. I related to it instantly.

Whether it’s writing or jewelry making, I get scared. Scared that I can’t make it. Scared...

Jill: Mom I’m gonna go to school!

Mom: Okay sweet pea just make sure that you come home as soon as possible I have a surprise!

Jill: Okay mom love you thanks!

As Jill walks down the street she sees a old woman DONT the street in distress she goes to help her

Older Jill: Don’t help her

Jill: Um? Who was that?

Older Jill: Your older spirit

Jill: Haha! Good one who are you really?

Older Jill: I ...

“You rush into things,” the old man said with a grim smile, “without consideration for the repercussions, my dear child.”

He peered over his spectacles at her, his kindly face laced with worry that his smile couldn’t quite mask.

Esther made a face. “Could you at least have the decency to stop calling me that?” she snapped as she removed the floral silk scarf from around her head, wisps of hair ...

I sat at the kitchen table. It faced into the kitchen, not into the table. Leg room. I watched as the pot slowed its final drips. A watched pot never boils, and a Mr Coffee perhaps falls into that category, too. But I had nothing else to do but sit and prepare my nerves, so I spaced out while eyeballing the warm elixir visibly create itself into being, like the Egyptian god Atum from the dark expa...

Why do you listen

To all the things people say?

It's crap, you don't deserve it

But you believe it anyway.

You're quick to give love

Yet so guarded to receive

You can't seem to fathom

That not everyone's gonna leave.

Avoiding the mirror

It's like you're trying to hide

The person you really are

And the feelings you hold inside.

Your words have become the bricks

You use to build your wall

If you ...

They stared after him, and watched him go.

Alexander sniffed, tears streaming down his cheeks. He looked up at the tall, greying wizard, silently pleading for comfort.

The old man knelt, letting his staff lean against the tree, and smiled kindly. He wrapped his arms lightly around the boy, who sobbed into his robes, and he patiently patted his back.

“There, there, little one,” he said, voice ge...

“Ryoko?”

I kept my eyes closed as she pulled at my hair, not wanting to see my reflection. “Yes, Gwen?”

“I know you want to visit Caenum.”

“And you’re going to tell me that I’m never going to leave Lucernas.”

“No,” she sighed. “I’m telling you this because I know how to get you there. Listen very carefully, because this is dangerous…”

“Wait-“

“Visit General Eliso’s quarters as soon as you ca...

I walked home from school thinking of my recent breakup. My mom saw me crying and told me that if my situation was really that bad and if my partner didn’t treat me right, they weren’t the one for me. She told me how she stuck with my dad for years after he cheated on her and things did not improve....

Hey Chris, why are you so sad looking?

I been watching you just sitting there, what are you thinking?

Well you know Mr. Rex, things are not going so good. Why, what do you mean?

You see I been thinking about how I can make money. Well what have you come up with? I haven’t That’s the problem. You see Chris,there are doers and there are dreamers which one are you? I’m a doer. Ok if you are than...

Slivers of light pooled in from the thin wooden slates of the crate, splashing heat against Jianyu’s skin. He shut his eyes, trying once more to calm his breathing. How long had he been in this crate? Had they boarded the trains yet?

No, they wouldn’t have, not yet. His father promised he would come see him before he left the city. He promised he would come say goodbye.

The crate was small and s...