Rory Lim

07/12/2025

Make happiness a priority…. . .

05/12/2025

Glimmers of Hope

Some days feel heavy,
as if the world has stacked
its burdens squarely on your shoulders.

Challenges come in many forms,
unexpected setbacks,
moments of doubt,
or the silent, persistent ache of fatigue and lonliness.

Yet even in these difficult days
a spark can be ignited,
a small kindness from a stranger,
a memory that brings a fleeting smile,
the gentle warmth of sunlight
spilling across your face.

Seeking out these small fragments of light
is a quiet act of resilience.
It does not erase the struggles,
but it reminds you
that even the hardest days
contain tiny glimmers of hope.

In the weaving of hardship and small joys,
life quietly teaches
that beauty and challenge coexist,
and that embracing the moments of grace,
no matter how small,
can be a lifeline
through even the darkest hours.

~ 'Glimmers of Hope' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Olamik

30/11/2025

27/11/2025

Keep Moving Forward

Keep moving forward,
not because the path is clear or free of obstacles,
but because something within you
still leans toward the light.

Grief presses its weight
against your ribs,
slowing every breath,
yet some small part of you
continues to rise,
to take the next
trembling step.

Moving forward isn’t forgetting,
and it never asks for heroics.
It asks only that you honor
the life still unfolding,
the mornings that break open,
the hands that reach for yours,
the tenderness that finds you
even in the darkness.

To keep moving forward
is to trust that healing
is a journey, not a moment,
a gradual shifting
toward a gentler place.

It is the quiet defiance
of choosing to breathe,
to feel,
to hope,
just enough
to meet the next hour.

And in time,
your small steps become a path,
and the path becomes a life,
one that carries
both the tender shadow of what has been lost
and the trembling possibility
of what might be.

~ 'Keep Moving Forward' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Olamik

22/11/2025

Soft Hearts Can Move Mountains

Remain soft,
for gentleness is the quiet grace
that shifts even the toughest of hardships.
Don’t try to force anything,
soft hearts can move mountains.

Stay open,
even when the world leans hard against you.
There is a tender bravery
in one that still listens,
that still offers warmth
freely and with an open heart.

A kind word,
a soft touch,
can loosen what force will only bind.
Water, wind, and time,
the earth’s most patient hands,
shape mountains grain by grain,
through quiet, gentle perseverance.

So remain soft,
not by simply yielding,
but as a gentleness that endures.
Let tenderness be your power,
your steady guide,
your way of moving in the world.

~ 'Soft Hearts Can Move Mountains' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art by Annacozysoul

09/11/2025

Find someone who will love you while you are at your worst and hug you when you are at your weakest. It’s not a real person who walks away when the situation is tough; it’s a loving person who stays when you’re falling apart. Not someone who sees through your flaws, flaws, and fears, but wrapped around your body every day. Look for someone who doesn’t make you feel like you are more or less. It is easy to love someone when you laugh and smile, but it is difficult when you work together and eventually you are both choose each other.
Neena Gupta.
ⓒ Love Is An Emotion of Strong Affection

08/11/2025

In the Quiet Spaces of Our Hearts

Even when they are gone,
their nearness hums in the quiet hours,
in the faint shimmer at the edge of night.

Loss awakens us to their presence,
to feel the warmth of our loved ones,
whose light lingers still.

Love does not vanish.
It changes form.
It becomes the pulse in the stars,
the hush before dawn,
the unseen hand that steadies us
when the world feels unsteady.

Those we love are not gone;
they remain near,
always beside us,
a soft light that never fades,
forever shining in the quiet spaces of our hearts.

~ 'In the Quiet Spaces of Our Hearts' by Spirit of a Hippie

✍️ Mary Anne Byrne

~ Art Olamik