Wed 24 Sep 2008
Sorrow and Grief
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Quotes
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We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, ‘Why did this happen to me?’ unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.
… joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He’s going to be up all night anyway.
Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.
The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Sorrow makes us all children again – destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing.
Tears are words the heart can’t express.
You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
Tears have a wisdom all their own. They come when a person has relaxed enough to let go and to work through his sorrow. They are the natural bleeding of an emotional wound, carrying the poison out of the system. Here lies the road to recovery.
What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see life with a clearer view again.
What can appear to be your worst moments in life are sometimes just an invitation to yourself and to your next magical journey – a journey that we would never have had the courage to take unless forced to do so.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.
Mon 22 Sep 2008
Adversity
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Success, Overcoming Adversity & Overcoming Failure
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemy.
Rodrick Thorp
Never bend your head, always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr
Oh God – Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.
Author Unknown
I am an idealist. I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg
As I grow to understand life less and less. I learn to live it more and more.
Jules Renard
You never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
Charles W. Eliot
The greatest possession is self-possession.
Ethel Watts Mumford
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. it doesn’t matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life.
Henry James
Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess today the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow, when we are building up our being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself loses misery.
Matthew Arnold
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward John Phelps
it is only because of problems we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch
Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you submit to your grief- your time for joy will come, believe me.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington
Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.
Special Olympics Motto
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is the promise of daylight.
London Times
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau
The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Robert Frost
Updated Nov. 1, 2008
We cannot change the direction of the wind; but we can adjust our sails….
Author Unknown
Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisner
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
Author Unknown
The greatest glory in living, lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Nelson Mandela
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark
As long as you keep getting born, it’s alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card
One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
Unknown Author
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell
Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
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Fri 5 Sep 2008
Love
Posted by Heidi under Love/Friendship, Quotes, Ramblings & Such
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I love quotes and I have oodles I’ve collected over the years….sharing some of my favorites relating to LOVE…
To love and be loved is to feel the sun on both sides.
David Viscott
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
Author Unknown
It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
Bertrand Russell
Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
Author Unknown
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
Oscar Wilde
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is love.
Sophocles
You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
Author Unknown
To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Brandi Snyder
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same.
Flavia Weed
Life without Love is like a harp without strings.
Author Unknown
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
Charles Morgan
For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
James Earl Jones
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Author Unknown
What the heart gives away is never gone … It is kept in the hearts of others.
Robin St. John
Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it’s letting go.
Sylvia Robinson
Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
Author Unknown
Updated June 27, 2009
To Love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
We are not held back by the Love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
M. Williamson
To the lamp of love: May it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial
Unknown
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
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Wed 3 Sep 2008
Goals
Posted by Heidi under Goals/Dreams, Quotes, Ramblings & Such
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In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins-not through strength, but through persistence.
Buddha
Sometimes the path you’re on is not as important as the direction you’re heading.
Kevin Smith
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Author Unknown
When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
Charles C. Noble
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshniko
If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Lawrence J. Peter
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.
Author Unknown
I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Charles F. Kettering
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Abraham Lincoln
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
Author Unknown
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Robert Collier
Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson
The best angle from which to approach any problem is the “try-angle.”
Author Unknown
Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right
Henry Ford
One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Sidney Howard
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown
If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.
Author Unknown
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Anthony Robbins
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Cavett Robert
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Zigla
Updated June 22, 2009
It’s not if glass is half full or half empty that matters. It’s whether your goal is to ration what’s left or to fill it up again.
Unknown
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Woodenabout
You can do anything, but not everything.
David Allen
Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
C. Myss
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King
The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Les Brown
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
G. B. Shaw
The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
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Mon 1 Sep 2008
Dreams
Posted by Heidi under Goals/Dreams, Quotes, Ramblings & Such
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Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Wayne Dyer
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert Heinlein
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.
Henry David Thoreau
A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask.
Fox Mulder
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend’s hand~ and hold on forever.
Traci Brown
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Author Unknown
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward Kennedy
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Martin Luther King
Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream?
Ashleigh Brilliant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant
Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.
Phantom F. Harlock
God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.
Author Unknown
Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinowitz
In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow.
Louise Driscoll
Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.
Karen Ravn
You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.
John Lennon
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Anias Nin
Some men see things as they are and say ‘why’? Others dream things that never were and say ‘why not’?
George Bernard Shaw
Dreams are … illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Galileo Galilei
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marde
Let your dream devour your life not your life devour your dream.
Author Unknown
If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J.M. Power
Dream as if you’ll live forever… live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson
Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Louise Driscoll
Updated June 22, 2009
Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
L. Frank Baum
Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.
Flavia
Imagination is everything! It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert Einstein
Reason can answer questions but imagination has to ask them.
Ralph Gerard
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet
We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.
Jeremy Irons
Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
Astrid Alauda
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Thu 21 Aug 2008
Beginnings
Posted by Heidi under Beginnings, Quotes, Ramblings & Such
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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu
Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
Alexander Clark
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.
Jim Rohn
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill
The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
Marquise du Deffand
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress,
and working together is success.
Henry Ford
Seems like I’ve been here before, can’t remember when
I get this funny feeling, we’ll be together again;
No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends;
No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.
Tom Chapin
Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
Author Unknown
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
Dave Weinbaum
Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Native American Proverb
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle
All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene F. Ware
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest
The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Henry S. Hoskins
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Joe Sabah
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland
What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.
Author Unknown
Updated June 22, 2009
To Love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm
Sir Winston Churchill
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Tue 15 Jul 2008
Hope
Posted by Heidi under Hope/Sorrow, Quotes, Ramblings & Such
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Hope, Courage & Faith
Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.
Christopher Reeve
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Author Unknown
The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
Author Unknown
Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all.
Emily Dickinson
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Albert Einstein
Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
Author Unknown
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
What can appear to be your worst moments in life are sometimes just an invitation to yourself and to your next magical journey – a journey that we would never have had the courage to take unless forced to do so.
Mark Hoog
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
Isaac Asimov
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James Baldwin
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
Hope is grief’s best music.
Author Unknown
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucious
Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment.
William Penn
While there’s life there’s hope.
Cicero
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Oscar Wilde
Hope is but the dream of those who wake.
Matthew Prior
He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw
Updated Nov. 2, 2008
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
I start to think there really is no cure for depression that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn’t one I’ll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it’s worth it.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
We could never learn to be brave and patient , if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
Courage is the strength to stand up.. when it is easier to sit down
Author Unknown
And the day came when the risk it took to remain inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Anais Nin
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
Christopher Robin to Pooh
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandria
Trust your hopes, not your fears.
David Mahoney
He who has health has hope. And he who has hope has everything.
Arabian Proverb
Hope ever tells us tomorrow will be better.
Tibullus
Hope to the end.
1 Peter 1:13
We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Muriel Chen
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer
The light of humanity never shines brighter than those moments in which someone reaches into the darkness of another’s suffering to offer comfort.
David L. Weatherford
Updated June 22, 2008
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Some days there won’t be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
Emory Austin
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Colton
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
Daisaku Ikeda
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
I can make it through the rain I can stand up once again on my own and I know that I’m strong enough to mend. And everytime I feel afraid I hold tighter to my faith and I live one more day and I make it through the rain
Mariah Carey
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Gandhi
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Mon 14 Jul 2008
Gratitude
Posted by Heidi under Kindness/Gratitude, Quotes, Ramblings & Such
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