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

[Birdy77]

Ah,
kindness.
What a
simple
way to
tell
another
struggling
soul that there
is love to be
found in this
world.

[blondguy]

Hey Birdy

Hope your weekend is being good to you 🙂

Paul

[Birdy77]

Be confused, it’s where you begin to learn new things.

Be broken, it’s where you begin to heal.

Be frustrated, it’s where you start to make more authentic decisions.

Be sad, because if we are brave enough we can hear our heart’s wisdom through it.

Be whatever you are right now. No more hiding. You are worthy, always.

S.C. Lourie

(P.S. thanks Paul, mine was quiet and included pizza, wine and sunshine 😊 hope yours treated you kindly)

[Peppermintbach]

Beautiful, just beautiful...thank you so much for sharing your latest quote, birdy 🙂

Love,

Pepper xoxo

[Music_Freak]

I like that last quote Birdy...I feel like it relates to me and uni a bit 🙂

I hope you're well, and I'm glad you're back on BB, I missed you 🙂

[Birdy77]

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognise that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. ... We were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realise that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

Alice Walker, Living by the Word

[Peppermintbach]

For our dear friends:

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not possibly born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

- Anais Nin

For those struggling:

I survived because the fire within me burned brighter than the fire around me.

- Joshua Graham

And finally...

But still, like dust, I’ll rise

- Maya Angelou

[Doolhof]

Hello Everyone,

I just want to thank you all for helping to provide such a wonderfully inspirational thread.

Sometimes we have no idea of the impact our shared words have on others.

Wishing you all a little less distress and may the wisdom of the words shared here penetrate your hearts and minds.

Cheers all from Dools

[Peppermintbach]

For all our dear friends who are going through a hard time.

This next one is for you:

Sometimes it’s okay if the only thing you did today was breathe.

- Yumi Sakugawa

Love,

Pepper xoxo

P.S. As always, Dools, you’re the gracious and uplifting CC that you are. Thank you for your words 🙂

[Ggrand]

“Hello everyone.....

“To often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around......Leo Buscaglia...

I want to thank everyone here who has talked, spoken, listened, helped, been there for someone here on BB or out in the real word...together we can make a difference to someone’s life.......you have done to mine.. 💜..