More Inspiration
Here's some more inspirational stuff!
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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,
and success achieved." ~ Helen Keller
"If you're going through hell, keep going!" ~ Sir Winston Churchill
"Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique." ~ Anonymous
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time." ~ Anna Freud
"When you're having one of those 300 bad days you will have this year, just think of the 65 good days you will have and the memories you'll gain!" ~ Val, one of my FST workers
"Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understandings with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for a while, leave footprints on our heart, and we are never ever the same." ~ Unknown
"Let your heart guide you but listen closely because it whispers." ~ Land Before Time
"Life is about who you love and who you hurt.
It's about how you feel about yourself.
It's about trust, happiness, and compassion.
It's about sticking up for your friends and replacing inner hate with love.
Life is about avoiding jealousy, overcoming ignorance, and building confidence.
It's about what you say and what you mean.
It's about seeing people for who they are and not what they have.
Most of all, it is about choosing to use your life to touch someone else's in a way that could never have been achieved otherwise.
These choices are what life's about." ~ Unknown
"Some things are true even if you don't believe in them." ~ City of Angels
"In the long run, the pessimist may be proved to be right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip." ~ Daniel L. Reardon
"If I had never met you, I wouldn't like you. If I didn't like you, I wouldn't love you. If I didn't love you, I wouldn't miss you. But I did, I do, and I will.” ~ Unknown
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ~ Margaret Thatcher
"It can't rain all the time." ~ Brandon Lee, "The Crow"
"There were those empty threats and hollow lies...
you tried to hurt me. But you were history with the slamming of the door. And I made myself so strong again somehow, and I never wasted any of my time on you since then." ~ Celine Dion, "It's All Coming Back To Me Now"
"How lucky I am to have known someone who is so hard to say goodbye to!" ~ Unknown
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
~ Helen Keller
"Freedom comes when you learn to let go." ~ Madonna
"He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness." ~ Shakti Gawain
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Act as if it were impossible to fail." ~ Dorothea Brande
"I've learned there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat, I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me." ~ Dr. Seuss
"When I accept myself just as I am, then I can change." ~ Carl Rogers
"You can't smooth out the surf, but you can learn to ride the waves." ~ Anonymous
"Yesterday is the past, tomorrow is the future.
Today is a gift - that's why it's called the present." ~ Unknown
"There is no great genius without some touch of madness." ~ Aristotle
"Professionals built the Titanic but amateurs built the Ark." ~ Unknown
"Two paths diverged in the woods, and I
I took the one less traveled by
And it made all the difference."
~ Robert Frost
"The purpose of life is life." ~ Karl Lagerfeld
"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are." ~ Anonymous
"Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'" ~ S.I. Hayakawa
"Isn't it interesting, and doesn't it cut close to home, that without the 't', the word diet becomes 'die'?; you can chose not to diet, and in doing so, choose not to 'die yet'." ~ Susan Kano
"You can't hit a homerun unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try." ~ Kathy Seligman
To laugh often and love much;
To appreciate beauty;
To find the best in others;
To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived...
This is to have succeeded.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?" ~ Stephen Levine
"If you can DREAM it, you can DO it." ~ Walt Disney
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each one of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." ~ Albert Schweitzer
[about the past] ". . . the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it." ~ Rafiki in Disney's
The Lion King
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
I
I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in
I am lost . . . I am helpless
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.
II
I walk down the same street,
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place.
But it isn't my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.
III
I walk down the same street
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in . . . it's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault.
I get out immediately.
IV
I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.
V
I walk down another street.
"Be all that you can be." ~ U.S. Army
A well-known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. "Who would like this $20 bill?" he asked. Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 bill to one of you, but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the money up. He then asked, "Who still wants it?" Still the hands went up.
"Well," he replied, "what if I do this?" and he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor. He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?" Still the hands went up.
"My friends, you have all learned a valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled and ground into the dirt by decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel worthless. But no matter what has happened, you will never lose your value. Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless."
~Cliff Anchor
"There is no person on this earth who exhibits more strength, courage, and dignity on a daily basis than an addict in recovery." ~ Unknown
Would You Do This to Someone?
Reading this quote on a message board helped me to reconsider my suicidality. In part because of THIS QUOTE, I am no longer suicidal! (Names have been changed to protect privacy.)
R.I.P
....MICHAEL....
"Suicide isn't the cowards way out. You have to be
very strong to do what he did. I admire him a lot.
What he did wasn't very selfish at all.... - AUNT JILL
"No, you're right, it wasn't very selfish. What he did
was extrememly selfish." -LAURA
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