The heart wants roots, yet the mind wants wings.

Understanding your heritage, your roots, and your ancestry is an important part of carving out your future.

Whether you are pursuing your dreams, and your life has taken a new direction, but you should always remember your roots and bonds which gave you the strength to be the person you are today.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Traditions are our roots and a profile of who we are as individuals and who we are as a family. They are our roots, which give us stability and a sense of belonging - they ground us.

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. Be like a tree stay grounded. Connect with your roots. Turn over a new leaf. Bend before you break. Enjoy your own natural beauty.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots. Be so rooted in your being that nobody’s absence or presence can disturb your inner peace. 

Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world. The forces change yet the essence remains the same. The heart wants roots, yet the mind wants wings. Wings to show you what you can become roots to remind you where you’re from. Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

It doesn’t matter how high you fly with the biggest wings you have, but remember that your soul is still trapped in the roots in the ground where you fell and you were so small and so empty.