Joy
Joy isn’t acquired through having a lot of money, a lavish lifestyle or a prestigious job. To experience joy you have to tend to it and nurture it before you can fully experience it. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
Joy isn’t acquired through having a lot of money, a lavish lifestyle or a prestigious job. To experience joy you have to tend to it and nurture it before you can fully experience it. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
How we show up in the world is determined by how we think of ourselves. Self assurance is a prerequisite to showing up as we truly are, an embodiment of knowledge, creativity and experience. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2025
We have to be conscious of what we dwell on. Thoughts are seeds, we gestate them, breathe life into them and they become one with us. We are the precursors of our life experiences. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2024
Getting old has nothing to do with maturity. Maturity is attained when we learn from our experiences. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2023
Pain is quantified by the person experiencing it, not by bystanders. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2023
Strength is who we are at our core, not the means we have to intimidate, subjugate, and annihilate. Life is a blank slate, we draw on it whatever we need to experience. Let people be. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2023
What we are experiencing or seeing right now might only be the symptom of a larger problem. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2022
We have to be grateful for all the seasons in our life. Whatever we are experiencing now is only for a season. Seasons don’t last they are only temporal. It’s the lessons learned that would propel us on our journey © Norma Bobb-Semple 2022
Some of us don’t experience life because we dwell in a place of compliance, not hearing, seeing or feeling, and thinking that always being in compliance is the only way to save oneself. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021
Things don’t occur in a vacuum. What we experience in this moment is the result of a decision we made. This is the reason why we can’t allow ourselves to be swayed by the opinions of others in our decision making. © Norma Bobb-Semple 2021