INSPIRATION...


Following are some quotes that have provided inspiration to me during one of the most trying and difficult times I have experienced thus far in my life. I hope that there are at least a few that you can relate to, and perhaps draw strength from.

Pain is the great teacher...[it] forces us to think, and to make connections, and to sort out what is what, to discover what has been happenening to cause it. ~May Sarton

When you get ti the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.~Annonymous

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need. ~Epicurus "Vatican Sayings"

The family--that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. ~Dodie Smith, "Dear Octopus"

There is a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ~Pearl Bailey, "The Raw Pearl"

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. ~Audre Lorde, "Black Women Writers At Work"

What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down. ~Mary Pickford, "Readers Digest"

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony. ~Catullus

Sorrow is a fruit; God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it. ~Victor Hugo

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