Live Your Life Courageously

Waking up to Rose Lilies is kind of wonderful!!!

Live life courageously! If you donโ€™t, youโ€™re NOT really living, my dears!

Life is too short to live it any other way. So, if you find yourself doing what I do, oftenโ€ฆsecond guessing and over analyzing. Let me save you the trouble. Itโ€™s not worth it! Get OUT of your way and put yourself in the way of beauty!

If your Nerve, deny you —

Go above your Nerve —

He can lean against the Grave,

If he fear to swerve —

That’s a steady posture —

Never any bend

Held of those Brass arms —

Best Giant made —

If your Soul seesaw —

Lift the Flesh door —

The Poltroon wants Oxygen —

Nothing more โ€“

~Emily Dickinson~

25 responses to “Live Your Life Courageously”

  1. Live out loud!!!!! LOL!!!

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    1. Yes, Dee Min! YES!!! ๐Ÿ˜‰

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    Timothy Price

    Excellent advice. If we see the beauty that presents itself to us every day, each day differently, we can stand in the way of beauty, be run over by beauty, be won over by beauty, become beauty, and be beautiful. Those are lovely Rose Lilies. Are they from your garden?

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    1. Thank you! Your words are amazing: “If we see the beauty that presents itself to us every day, each day differently, we can stand in the way of beauty, be run over by beauty, be won over by beauty, become beauty, and be beautiful.” I love that! Yes, sir, you know it! ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

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        Timothy Price

        You are welcome, Eleanor. Your posts are inspiring.

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  3. The Wild meme is gorgeous, and so are the flowers!!

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    1. Thanks, Meg!!! ๐Ÿฅฐ

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  4. Oh, you have bagged the poem to the point yet again! Going above the nerves is the hard part, though. But one must strive ahead and try to battle his/her demons!
    Beautiful flowers, I must say๐Ÿ˜€๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ

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    1. Thank you ๐Ÿ˜Š so much! Youโ€™re such a sweetheart! ๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ’•

      ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธ๐ŸŒธThey really brighten up my bedroom and theyโ€™re very fragrant!

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  5. […] Live Your Life Courageously โ€” You Lil Dickens […]

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  6. ๐Ÿ˜‚ Quotidian philosophy for the querulous! Love it.

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  7. danse macabre the heel does throb living hurt in the dirt

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    1. Thank you, Chuck! Appreciate you ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  8. DiosRaw Avatar
    DiosRaw

    Thanks for sharing this, beautiful. ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿปโ™ฅ๏ธ

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  9. Yes indeed, one should always be brave. Wise and invigorating thoughts. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ˜Š

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  10. Exactly. Live life alive. Live life free. Live life happy even if only in moments. ๐Ÿ™

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    1. โค๏ธ โค๏ธ โค๏ธ

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  11. Needed this ! Great post !

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    1. Thank you, BrittnyLee! Iโ€™m so glad ๐Ÿ™‚

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      1. You’re welcome

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  12. Peter James Pienaar Avatar
    Peter James Pienaar

    Reminders are soo refreshing and by this I am refreshed. Thank you for a heart that longs to encourage others; surely, we all need it! Blessings, Peter.

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    1. Thank you, Peter! A cheerful heart ๐Ÿ’ is good medicine ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  13. Indeed! Love it, Eleanor. ๐Ÿ’™

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