Encouraging Quotes
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I've found myself trying to drown all of my thoughts out in music lately, whether punishing my guitar or just listening to music as loud as the speakers can handle w/o distortion. For me it's been pretty theraputic. (apart from the blistered fingers) Here's some thoughts I share:
Just what's on my mind right now
Just what's on my mind right now
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I'm shooting for some smiles today
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."-Flip Wilson
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."-Douglas Adams
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."-Carl Jung
"If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments."-Flip Wilson
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."-Douglas Adams
"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."-Carl Jung
hehe Blue, very goodYesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
And today?
Today is a gift
That's why we call it 'The Present'
Unwrap it with a smile!
the desire to forget the past is a form of suicide.
I have come to believe that many of us would sooner die than remove our masks and stand barefaced before the world.
-richard bode
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
-anais nin
Hmm yeah re-reading that quote I completely see your point. I had only read it in context of my own 'issues', i.e. I have often felt like i want to die.. when really what i mean what i wanna do is stop the pain, i.e. the past. And it's at these times that I don't wanna face up to my feelings and the real underlying problems that are causing me the pain.
But no I don't think that trying to forget your past is a form of suicide. Hmm thinking about it I'm not sure what the quote's trying to say! Sorry.. silly quote really.. sorry
But no I don't think that trying to forget your past is a form of suicide. Hmm thinking about it I'm not sure what the quote's trying to say! Sorry.. silly quote really.. sorry
"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives." -Sidney Madwed
"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be." -David Viscott
"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be." -David Viscott
" The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. " - Michelangelo
"Sometimes you have to realize you're exactly where you're supposed to be. If you can just get out of your own way, you will go where you were meant to go." - Author Unknown
"Sometimes you have to realize you're exactly where you're supposed to be. If you can just get out of your own way, you will go where you were meant to go." - Author Unknown
"We can't become stronger unless have something to test us." - Julia
"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." -William James
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne
"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired." - Robert Southey
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." - Joseph Addison
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself." - Unknown
"Reality bites... and doesn't let go." - Source Unknown
"Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos." - David Cronenberg
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." -William James
"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it." - Lena Horne
"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired." - Robert Southey
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." - Norman Cousins
"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." - Joseph Addison
"A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself." - Unknown
"Reality bites... and doesn't let go." - Source Unknown
"Friendship consists of only one soul; inhabiting two bodies." - Aristotle
"There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another." - Oliver Schreiner
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
"You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires." - Marcia Wieder
"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." - Henny Youngman
"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open." - Harry Edwards
"There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another." - Oliver Schreiner
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
"You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires." - Marcia Wieder
"If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." - Henny Youngman
"We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open." - Harry Edwards
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srry guys, got carried away with the quotes, enjoy
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. -Confucius
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo
If we were supposed to TALK more than we LISTEN, we would have two mouths and one ear. -Mark Twain
Too many people go through life running from something that isn't after them. -Unknown
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -F.P. Jones
The hardest thing in life is watching the one you love love someone else. Seeing that look in their eyes, knowing that they never looked at you with such love, such a sense of wanting, needing, and desire. Then, have them not even know that that's the way you look at them. -Unknown
It takes a minute have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone; but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. -Unknown
Do you ever put your arms out and spin and spin? Well that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you keep going. -Unknown
Some say life is a field of flowers, or an ocean with rocky waves. I say it’s a garden full of thorn-bushes, you just have to watch where you walk. - anon.
When you hold someone, hold them like it's the last time you'll ever see them. And when they go, don't make reasons for them to stay, only reasons for them to return. –Unknown
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think it safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible. -Unknown
"Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push...You live, you help."
Author:Ram Dass
"We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness."
Author:Unknown
"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor.
But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
Too 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 a potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." Author:Albert Schweitzer
"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."
Author:Pema Chodron
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." Author:George Washington Carver
"There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." Author:Unknown
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." Author:Francis Bacon
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
Author:Mark Twain
"It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you."
Author:Cort Flint
"Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how."
Author:Unknown
"A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle."
Author:Unknown
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Author:Benjamin Franklin
"No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one."
Author:Unknown
"Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it."
Author:Christine M. Huppert
"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind." Author:Malaysian Proverb
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
Author:Winston Churchill
"If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"
Author:Nonpareil
"There are times that when truth and kindness conflict, one ought to choose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot."
Author:Leroy Jack Syrop
"The value of kindness cannot be measured in human terms. An act of kindness enriches the heart of both the giver and the receiver.
People who have received a little act of kindness so small as a grain from another, tasted it and then, even if they receive an unkind act or word bigger than a palm tree, when they think of that little grain of kindness, the palm tree of unkindness will disappear.
So powerful is the act of kindness. Let us plant it in the centre of our hearts."
Author:Br. Arockiam, kindness website builder
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"If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it, you would find
You'd soon forget to think 'twas true
That someone was unkind to you.
If you were busy being glad,
And cheering people who are sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You'd soon forget to notice it."
Author:R. Foreman
"Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used."
Author:Blaise Pascal
"Too 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."
Author:Leo Buscaglia
"When you do a kindness for others with the purest of intentions, you are letting its essence trickle out of you. If you do it enough it becomes a river. And I'm betting that its source is endless. I don't think you have to worry about giving too much of it away."
Authorave, Community Organizer, FL
"A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind." Author:Richard Dehmel
"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." Author:Plato
"Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never."
Author:Sathya Sai Baba
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. -Confucius
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo
If we were supposed to TALK more than we LISTEN, we would have two mouths and one ear. -Mark Twain
Too many people go through life running from something that isn't after them. -Unknown
Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. -F.P. Jones
The hardest thing in life is watching the one you love love someone else. Seeing that look in their eyes, knowing that they never looked at you with such love, such a sense of wanting, needing, and desire. Then, have them not even know that that's the way you look at them. -Unknown
It takes a minute have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone; but it takes a lifetime to forget someone. -Unknown
Do you ever put your arms out and spin and spin? Well that's what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but for some reason you keep going. -Unknown
Some say life is a field of flowers, or an ocean with rocky waves. I say it’s a garden full of thorn-bushes, you just have to watch where you walk. - anon.
When you hold someone, hold them like it's the last time you'll ever see them. And when they go, don't make reasons for them to stay, only reasons for them to return. –Unknown
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think it safe, dreaming more than others think is practical, and expecting more than others think is possible. -Unknown
"Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join the others and push...You live, you help."
Author:Ram Dass
"We wildly underestimate the power of the tiniest personal touch of kindness."
Author:Unknown
"The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor.
But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
Too 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 a potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt."
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into a flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." Author:Albert Schweitzer
"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."
Author:Pema Chodron
"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these." Author:George Washington Carver
"There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else." Author:Unknown
"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows that he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them." Author:Francis Bacon
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read."
Author:Mark Twain
"It is difficult to give away kindness. It keeps coming back to you."
Author:Cort Flint
"Don't wait for people to be kind, show them how."
Author:Unknown
"A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle."
Author:Unknown
"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Author:Benjamin Franklin
"No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one."
Author:Unknown
"Be nice and smile to everyone you meet. You don't know what they are going through, and they may need that smile, and treasure it."
Author:Christine M. Huppert
"One can pay back the loan of gold, but one lies forever in debt to those who are kind." Author:Malaysian Proverb
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
Author:Winston Churchill
"If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you ever spoke and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?"
Author:Nonpareil
"There are times that when truth and kindness conflict, one ought to choose kindness, especially when a little honesty is better than a lot."
Author:Leroy Jack Syrop
"The value of kindness cannot be measured in human terms. An act of kindness enriches the heart of both the giver and the receiver.
People who have received a little act of kindness so small as a grain from another, tasted it and then, even if they receive an unkind act or word bigger than a palm tree, when they think of that little grain of kindness, the palm tree of unkindness will disappear.
So powerful is the act of kindness. Let us plant it in the centre of our hearts."
Author:Br. Arockiam, kindness website builder
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
"If you were busy being kind,
Before you knew it, you would find
You'd soon forget to think 'twas true
That someone was unkind to you.
If you were busy being glad,
And cheering people who are sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit,
You'd soon forget to notice it."
Author:R. Foreman
"Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used."
Author:Blaise Pascal
"Too 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."
Author:Leo Buscaglia
"When you do a kindness for others with the purest of intentions, you are letting its essence trickle out of you. If you do it enough it becomes a river. And I'm betting that its source is endless. I don't think you have to worry about giving too much of it away."
Author
ave, Community Organizer, FL "A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind." Author:Richard Dehmel
"Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle." Author:Plato
"Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never."
Author:Sathya Sai Baba