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Words of comfort, encouragement and wisdom

Birdy77
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

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

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And of the quote, it is not enough to be compassionate, you must act... what if you are unable to? Limitations, financial restrictions, rejections... setbacks... how does one maintain light and hope, without desperately grasping at delusions to make do with a sad existence, or living desperately in denial?

Birdy77
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

Hello JPeachy.

Welcome to the forums.

I think compassion can be enacted in small ways, that limitations do not restrict. I don't think the Dalai Lama meant large acts or great sums of money.

Mother Theresa said "We cannot all do great things. But we can all do small things with great love".

Thich Nhat Hang teaches that compassion is a verb. That sympathy is something you feel, compassion is something you do, something you choose to practice.

And Jack Cornfield reminds us that your compassion is incomplete if it does not include yourself.

I hope you can have compassion on yourself today JPeachy.

Be well.

🌻birdy

Hi JPeachy,

It’s lovely to have you on board here 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts, and fair enough, I get what you’re saying.

I was going to write a response but then saw birdy’s thoughtful reply...I don’t really have much to add to what she has said. I think she covered it nicely...

Thanks again for writing in, and I hope to see you around the forums 🙂

Kind thoughts,

Pepper

Let the version of yourself that you were, teach you. Let the version of yourself that you are currently, comfort you. Let the version of yourself that you are becoming, inspire you. You are the version that you need and have needed to be in every phase of your journey.

-Unknown

Rose_3
Community Member

"You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!

This moment begins the new process. Each moment is a new beginning, and this moment is a new beginning for you right here and right now! Isn't that great to know! This moment is the Point of Power! This moment is where the change begins!"

Louise L. Hay

On being whoever you feel you need or want to be. On self mastery 🙂

Belonging so fully to yourself

that you’re willing to stand alone

is a wildnerness - an untamed,

unpredictable place of solitude

and searching. It is a place as

dangerous as it is breathtaking,

a place as sought after as it is

feared. The wilderness can often

feel unholy because we can’t

control it, or what people think

about our choice of whether to

venture into the vastness or not.

But it turns out to be the place of

true belonging, and it’s the

bravest and most sacred place

you will ever stand.

- Brene Brown

Refuse to apologise for being.

You are not taking up space.

You are a mountain.

- Alison Malee

Don't tame yourself. Free
yourself. Don't quieten
yourself, let your fire
be. Live your life with
heart, with passion. You
are beautiful, electric.
Don't conform. Don't let
the world keep you small.

S.C. Lourie


Summer Rose
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me lies an invincible summer--Albert Camus

demonblaster
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

Hi Birdy (tweety) Rose and all

Almost all of these I love they have so much wisdom and meaning. Rose 4th up wow that got me at the right time, copied it. Also love your Avitar, the gentle droplets of water, not too many. Superb.

Thanks tweety for an amazing thread 🤗 and everyone contributing 🌱 new beginnings

Rose_3
Community Member

"This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before."

~Maya Angelou