Words of comfort, encouragement and wisdom

[Birdy77]

To all the beautiful people 🌞

Words placed in a particular order can have a profound effect on us.

Words can bring us a moment of comfort, give us a different perspective, or change the course of our thinking and outlook entirely.

I would like this to be a space where we share quotes that have meaning to us or that have the potential to bring some comfort or encouragement to somebody, even if just for the moment in which they are reading it.

I will start.

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow." - Mary Anne Radmacher

Go gently with yourselves lovely people.

🌻birdy

[PamelaR]

Thank you Birdy.

I like your quote for letting go by May. If only we all imitated the trees, what a wonderful world it would be.

Following on the lines of letting go here is a little something from Lao Tzu

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.

[smallwolf]

On dealing with depression (a quote from Gandalf)

With care and compassion. No life untouched by darkness but remember that every storm cloud must yield eventually to the sun and the wind no matter how heavy it began.

[Birdy77]

Thank you so much Pammy for your words from Lao Tzu, letting go comes up so often doesn't it?

Wolfy, your quote is really powerful and beautiful. Thank you so much for joining in and sharing that. I hope you can keep those words in your heart to remember at this time.

🌻birdy

[Birdy77]

I would like to thank our wonderful friend Demonblaster (DB/Deebs/Deebi/The Deebsta 😉) for introducing me to Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann Here is a short excerpt, but it is worth your while looking it up if you are unfamiliar with it. Thanks again to The Deebsta.

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in
silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
...
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
...
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
It is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

[demonblaster]

Onya tweety, careful I did see a puddy tat 😆

The version I like is from Les Crane I think but is that who you said who wrote it?

Highly recommend this thanks Birdy I hadn't thought to pop it in here 🤗❤

[Birdy77]

Hello Deebs,

Yes Max Ehrmann wrote the poem in I think 1927, I read that many have done sound recordings of it, including your friend Les Crane in the 70s I think I read.

It's a really lovely piece, thanks so much Deebsta 😊

🌻birdy

[Birdy77]

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both. Appreciating the gloriousness inspires us, encourages us, cheers us up, gives us a bigger perspective, energizes us. We feel connected. But if that's all that's happening, we get arrogant and start to look down on others, and there is a sense of making ourselves a big deal ... On the other hand, wretchedness -- life's painful aspect -- softens us up considerably. Knowing pain is a very important ingredient of being there for another person ... The wretchedness humbles us and softens us ... Gloriousness and wretchedness need each other. One inspires us, the other softens us. They go together.

excerpt from Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living by Pema Chödrön

[Speak Your Truth]

I’d like to add this contribution please

"My Declaration of Self-esteem"

In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me - everything that comes out of me is authentically mine, because I alone choose it - I own everything about me - my body, my feelings, my mouth, my voice, all my actions, whether they be to others or to myself -
I own my fantasies, my dreams, my hopes, my fears - I own all my triumphs and successes, all my failures and mistakes.

Because I own all of me, I can become intimately acquainted with me - by so doing I can love me and be friendly with me in all my parts - I know there are aspects about myself that puzzle me, and other aspects that I do not know - but as long as I am friendly and loving to myself, I can courageously and hopefully look for solutions to the puzzles and for ways to find out more about me -

However I look and sound, whatever I say and do, and whatever I think and feel at a given moment in time is authentically me - If later some parts of how I looked, sounded, thought and felt turned out to be unfitting, I can discard that which I feel is unfitting, keep the rest, and invent something new for that which I discarded -

I can see, hear, feel, think, say, and do.

I have the tools to survive, to be close to others, to be productive, and to make sense and order out of the world of people and things outside of me -

I own me, and therefore I can engineer me -

I am me &

I AM OKAY

by Virginia Satir

[Birdy77]

Thank you so much SYT for your great contribution.

You are you, SYT and everybody, & you are okay.

🌻birdy

[Birdy77]

I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged, damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude