Quotes and Inspiration

"Obstacles"

For every hill I've had to climb
For every stone that bruised my feet
For all the blood and sweat and grime
For blinding storms and burning heat
My heart sings but a grateful song....
These were the things that made me strong.

For all the heartaches and the tears
For all the anguish and the pain
For gloomy days and fruitless years
And for the hopes that lived in vain
I do give thanks for now I know
These were the things that helped me grow!
Author Unknown



“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt


A gem is not polished without rubbing, nor a man made perfect without trials. - Chinese proverb


"Only as high as I reach can I grow,
Only as far as I seek can I go,
Only as deep as I look can I see,
Only as much as I dream can I be."
KAREN RAVN




"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
George Bernard Shaw


"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
Henry Ford


"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."
Edward Everett Hale


"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."
--Ft. Jerome Cummings



"When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at."
Epperson's Law


"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
William Butler Yeats


"God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick our selves too easily."
Unknown



"The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement."
George Will


"Patience with others is Love,
Patience with self is Hope,
Patience with God is Faith."
Adel Bestavros


"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
Albert Einstein



"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein


"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
Abraham Lincoln


"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
E.E. Cummings




"Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one."
Robert Brault


"Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live."
Nancy Moser


"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
Alan Saporta



You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Robert Louis Stevenson


Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you
the momentum necessary to get over it!
- Peter de Jager-


"If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Pearl Bailey



At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury,
the sturdiest trees are found.
- Hudson newsletter-


The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
- unknown -


Tough times never last, but tough people do.
- Robert H. Schuller -



"Count these among your blessings...
the friendly morning sky,
the peaceful night,
and all the colors,
beauties,
and splendors of a living earth."
ED CUNNINGHAM



"If you open your heart to beauty, you’ll find it
In all of the kind, caring deeds people do...
If you open your life to beauty, you’ll show it,
And others will find it reflected in you."
K. RAVN

“Life is a cup to be filled, not drained.” -Anonymous



“Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.” -Adam Lindsay Gordon



You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
- Robert Louis Stevenson


"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."-Walter Elliott




"If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Pearl Bailey


"If you can imagine it,
you can achieve it,
if you can dream it,
you can become it."
-William Arthur Ward



"If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path."
-Mary Webb



"A kind word is like a spring day."-Russian proverb



“In the quiet hours when we are alone with ourselves and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are,
we come sometimes upon a weak moment in which we wonder...what good we are doing.”
-A.A. Milne


“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
-Ursula K. LeGuin




“Sing or hum something today, in the shower, the car, or just your home, and notice how it lifts the spirits.”



“When strangers start acting like neighbors...communities are reinvigorated.”-Ralph Nader

“It is love, very ordinary, human love, and not fear, which is the good teacher and the wisest judge.”
-Jane Rule




“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau


“It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.” -Eleanor Roosevelt


“Yes, it’s a drag, but why not put your shopping cart back in its appointed place in the parking lot?”




Difficulties

Difficult challenges can come into your life when you least expect them, and when you can ill afford them. Yet there they are, bullying their way into your world. If you try to ignore them or deny them, they just get bigger and more problematic. The more you let them worry you and get you down, the more helpless they make you. A life full of challenge is often stressful and uncomfortable, but it is vastly better than the alternative, which is a life full of nothing. Your own particular challenges may seem extremely unfair, and they probably are. But that doesn't make them any less real, nor does it make you any less obligated to confront and endure them. Accept the challenges when they appear, and you're well on the way to overcoming them. Though they bring disruption and pain, they also bring growth and power. Sometimes what is best for us, is not what we would choose. Life is difficult and in it we find unimaginable joy. Accept it all and live it for all it's worth. -- Ralph Marston

Opportunities For Growth

Life brings opportunities,
and from these opportunities come growth.
To some "opportunities" are seen as problems,
and not as the building blocks for growth they can be,
forming the foundations for positive change.

Change can either be embraced or rejected,
the choice is ours.
When life - the universe - brings us challenges and obstacles,
we can choose to embrace each opportunity as spirit work and discover what riches it may contain.


Sometimes, we must pause in the dark corners of our soul in order to shed light on what is hidden behind the curtain of our fear.


However, we can also choose to turn a blind eye to what benefits may be offered,
hide from potential pain,
and become paralyzed by our own timidity.


If we choose to embrace that fear,
and pass through it,
then we choose to accept life and all it offers,
which in turn helps us to become the positive light- bearing individuals we are meant to be.


If, on the other hand,
we choose to close our eyes to our pain, and throw away the box,
shielding our inner vision from what it may contain,
then we choose to live our life as half a person; eventually closing ourselves off to even positive emotions.
By living as "half a person," we become people constantly seeking to fill our other halves with material comforts,
which bring only temporary relief and fleeting satisfaction.
When we choose to embrace our personal pain and experience the grief and the joy that life offers;
we choose to live our life to the fullest and accept all the universe has to offer.
When we allow the universe to work with us,
accepting everything it has to offer,
choose to make things happen for us,
instead of letting things happen to us.
The universe is not your enemy,
God does not choose to make us miserable;
only to further our capacities for love by providing opportunities for enlightenment and growth.
We make ourselves miserable by remaining stuck in the problem,
or lingering in those dark corners, and constantly complaining about our lives;
rather than striving to overcome our difficulties,
embracing our pain,
and moving beyond it into the shining beacon of acceptance and personal growth.
author: Kristie Kusch

As Ellenor Roosevelt once said, "Behind ever Good Man there is a GREAT LADY!"

The future belongs, to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams ..." --Ellenor Roosevelt

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