Share an inspirational quote

[AGrace]

Hi All,

Just wanted to share a quote with you that someone shared with me a little while ago. It's certainly helped me see brighter days at times.

You are a person

You are not only your pain

You are not only scars and wounds;

You are also better things.

You are possibility and promise,

Hope and healing and daydreams.

You are favourite books and favourite songs.

You are the people you love, and the people who love you.

You are HOPE and CHANGE

and things worth fighting for.

This is your story

And your story isn't over.

(Jamie Tworkowski)

[Doolhof]

Hi All,

I have always been a little bemused by the question: Is the glass half full or is it half empty?"

I know it represents how we look at life, in a positive view or a negative.

I like to think it doesn't matter if it is half full or half empty, just drink what is in it and fill it up again!

It is a bit like those questions we used to have in maths class. If John is 6, Richard is 12, then how old is Tom? I used to write "Who cares?" Not quite the answer the teacher was after! Ha. Ha.

[AGrace]

"Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing, or walking on a bright morning smelling fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies?"

Erich Fromm

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.”

Unknown

[geoff]

dear Amber, I'm sure that there will be plenty more quotes, but I heard this on the radio while driving this morning and it's by Simon and Garfunkel and they sing this:

                 Silence like a cancer grows

                 Hear my words that I might teach you

                But my words like a silent raindrop fell

                And echoed in the walls of silence

as I believe it was WK who raised this earlier before, and the same happened with my ex, 'silence is like a cancer' and I have to admit that it is something which tormented me and if I can say also WK. L Geoff. x

[Doolhof]

Happiness is not the absence of problems;

But the ability to deal with them.

Author unknown

Tears may linger at nightfall,

But joy comes in the morning.

Psalm 126.5

May we all look forward to a brighter tomorrow!

From Dools.

[Daisyv33]

I made this one up and some people said that this was a pretty good one too:

"Depression and loneliness are the obstacles blocking the path to happiness"

(This is just a meaning) You can't go THROUGH all the pain to get pass the obstacle, you have to go OVER it.

Well, that's my quote!

[AGrace]

Thanks Daisyv33, I love the one you made up yourself...Quite the Philosopher!

Ok, so I have a few today that I've come across over the past week.

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results"

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do"

"Sometimes when I say I'm ok, I want someone to look me in the eyes, hug me and say 'I know you're not'"

Hope you all have a great weekend, whatever you are inspired to do.

AGrace

[AGrace]

Ok, so I just saw this quote and though it was both insightful and motivational.

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

So I guess in hindsight it's best to focus our attention to how we react to aspects/events in life, rather than what's actually happening.

Wishing you all a touch of Inspiration today.

AG

[AGrace]

Ok, so today's quote I have modified from the words of Mother Theresa...

Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.

Life is beauty, admire it.

Life is a dream, realise it.

Life is a game, play it.

Life is a promise, fulfil it.

Life is a song, sing it.

Life is an adventure, dare it.

Life is luck, make it.

Life is life, fight for it.

[AGrace]

Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things it will come and sit comfortably on your shoulder.

[HA1]

"You are not your mind"