"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." — Rabindranath Tagore — — — #RabindranathTagore #quote #quotes #clouds #hardships #challenge #light #bright #storms #rainbows

Midnight thoughts on #success:

How do we #define success? For some it will be achieving a certain thing they’ve been working towards for a long time. For others it will be something as seemingly simple as getting out of bed.

Why is success such a hard thing to define? Because it is #unique to an #individual and to a #situation. There are no hard and fast rules definitively stating what success is and how to achieve it.

We don’t have any right to #judge others based on their success or lack thereof if we are using our own values as the metric against which someone else is being judged. We can admire their #achievements. We can encourage their #efforts. We can empathise with them in their #hardships. But we do not get to say what is or what isn’t a success because of how we regard it in our own lives.

Maybe success was getting to the end of this toot. Maybe it was finding 5 minutes to scroll on the socials. Maybe it was waking up in the first place.

#DefineYourOwnSuccess

#Matriarchs are often seen leading #protests on the #Caribbean island beset by widespread discontent and #economic #hardships.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/links/mothers-emerge-as-leaders-in-cuban-resistance-movement/

#sapevatelo They live in another world-The agios are for them 🤔 #Hardships for ordinary people who work with difficulty🤔

#December 4, 1841
#OTD Theodore Vogel, #German #Botanist got #Sick.
On the #Niger #Expedition, he shared #Hardships in his #Jounal.

"After endless #Labor, [I have] ill-conditioned #Plants. I have
#Sacrificed every convenience to gain room, & overcome #Dampness of the #Ship...but
w/o #Success."

The #Mineralogist Charles Roscher tended to Ted for 13 days. On Dec 17th, Ted asked if they were set for their trip & then peacefully passed away.

#PlantExplorer #Garden #Botany #Horticulture

> "Is Jehovah among us or not ...?" In this rebellions outburst, the subtle shift had taken place in the sinful hearts of men which actually pervert the truth "that we are the Lord's," making it to be, "the Lord is ours!" The rude and rebellious demands of Israel were most sinful and unbecoming a people so recently redeemed from slavery, but it should be remembered that long years of slavery had left their mark upon the minds and hearts of that people. In their dreams and imaginations of freedom, they had somehow overlooked the price and requirements of freedom. Free men should not expect that God will exempt them from every hardship. "They thought incorrectly that it was God's business to see to it that His people were rendered marvelously immune to the hazards of existence, time, accident, and environment."[11] And yet, are not Christians today sometimes tempted to doubt the providence of God because of hardships encountered in the way of life?
https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/bcc/exodus-17.html

#hardships #Bible #Israel #suffering