Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
- Hippocrates
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My opinion is that you never find happiness until you stop looking for it.
- Chang Tzu
A successful woman is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.
If it does not get cloudy, it will not get clear.
- Albanian proverb
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
'Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional' - Dalai Lama
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen
Try not. Do or do not. There is no try. ~Yoda in The Empire Strikes Back
One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. ~Jack Penn
The only thing that has to be finished by next Tuesday is next Monday. ~Jennifer Yane
Life is full of obstacle illusions. ~Grant Frazier
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
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford
Goals are dreams with deadlines. ~Diana Scharf Hunt
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown
"And so the first thing to do, I think, is to accept that you have this condition, but do not accept that it’s going to run your life.” - Becky Halstead
“Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Life is like photography - you use the negative to develop.
"Promise me you'll always REMEMBER:
You;re braver thank you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smater than you think."
-Christopher Robin to Pooh
"Life is not waiting for the storm to pass...its about learning how to dance in the rain."
"Love is looking past someones faults and finding beauty in their imperfections."
Let's put the fun back in dysfunctional! - Mary Englebright
Precaution is better than cure.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
The Law of the Garbage Truck: Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you.So when someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be happier.
- David J. Pollay
Hope is the belief in your ability to recover from whatever has knocked you down on any given day. Resilience is the ability to recover from the punch and the land on your feet, or on your own butt, or whatever supports you at that time. To cultivate your physical resilience, you must have mental resilience that comes from a place called hope.
- Rosalind Joffe from her and Joan Friedlander’s book,
Women, Work, and Autoimmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend!
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
A wiseman once said (well a psychologist and neurosurgeon, to be exact)
"Before ailments manifest in the physical body, they manifest in the mind
Before ailments manifest in the mind, they manifest in the soul."
So the psychologist/neurosurgeon went back to teaching yoga and meditation, which he learned in his childhood!
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
Funny, from Garfield/Jim Davis:
"We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads. So I'm not fat, I'm just really intelligent and my head couldn't hold any more so it started filling up the rest of me! That's my story and I'm sticking to it!"
"Drugs are not always necessary, but a belief in recovery is."
- Norman Cousins
Don't frown because you never know who may be falling in love with your smile :)
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
The soul is healed by being with children.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
From a book that has been at my bedside and a great solace to me over the past couple months, "God Always Has a Plan B":
At times I feel as if the events of my life are riding on a pink golf ball that suddenly curves off in a direction Ii didn't plan, didn't want, and over which i have no control. In dismay, I watch as my life careens off the course I have carefully planned for. And in my rescue of my pink golf ball I have to wander off my chosen course to reinstitute my life. While this is an adventuresome experience, it is not a selected or always joyous one.
I've also experienced many unexpected curves that were delightful and enriching. I didn't see them coming, nor did i have time to prepare, they were just suddenly there.
but life is simply full of curves - sometimes gentle, pleasant, and surprisingly gratifying and sometimes threatening to overwhelm me in their sharpness. The seat belt insuring my survival in all this is that God is always there with me.
- Marylin Meberg
"You can be a blessing to the people you meet today. Yes, life has its serious moments. But being just a bit kooky may be the secret to seeing yourself and others through good times and bad. Go ahead, make someone's day - make her smile."
-- Thelma Wells, from God Always Has a Plan B
"Forget the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey."
-- Dove Chocolate
"How do you change the habits of a lifetime? I love the line of Mark Twain: 'You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.' Slowly and deliberately. Walking takes commitment. It takes the first step and the next and the next until you get to the door."
-- Sheila Walsh, from God Always Has a Plan B
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
- Horace Bushnell
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
- W. C. Doane
"Studies say that people who have friends live longer and have fewer illnesses, and that close circle of friends actually helps the immune system work. With this in mind, run, don't walk, to your nearest coffee house, church group, library or political club. You won't find that 'close circle of friends' by sitting at home reading National Enquirer and watching TV! You do want your immune system to work, don't you?"
-- Peggy Benson
from God Always Has a Plan B
"We all face adversity in life. It's what you do with those challenges that's important. They say diamonds are forged under pressure."
"When we bring sunshine into the lives of others, we're warmed by it ourselves. When we spill a little happiness, it splashes on us. Hope uncovers new possibilities and shows us what can be done. It wrestles with angels, looks impossibilities in the eye and winks, Hope springs eternal. Hope supersedes all good intentions. Keep going by the power of God's grace. Dare to believe that He has planned greater things right around the corner."
-- Barbara Johnson
from God Always Has a Plan B
“Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.”
—DR. DAVID M. BURNS
