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Comforting Quotes And
Readings
"If you get up one more time than you
fall, you will make it through."
-- Chinese Proverb
"Life may not be the party we hoped
for, but while we're here we should dance."
-- Unknown
"When I let go of what I am, I become
what I might be."
-- Lao Tzu
"One of the secrets of life is to make
stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."
-- Jack Penn
--Grenville Kleiser
"Happiness is like a butterfly. The
more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your
attention to other things, it comes softly and sits on your
shoulder."
--Unknown
"Without emotion, man would be nothing
but a biological computer. Love, joy, sorrow, fear, apprehension,
anger, satisfaction, and discontent provide the meaning of human
existence."
--Arnold M. Ludwig
"Fear is the lock and laughter the key
to your heart."
-- Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, written by
Stephen A. Stills
"The strongest oak of the forest is
not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the
sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to
struggle for existence against the winds and rains and the scorching
sun."
-- Napoleon Hill, American Speaker,
Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
"When tears come, I breathe deeply and
rest. I know I am swimming in a hallowed stream where many have gone
before. I am not alone, crazy, or having a nervous breakdown . . .
My heart is at work. My soul is awake."
-- Mary Margaret Funk in Thoughts
Matter
"Never fear periods of darkness in
life. They are the atrium to new phases of life, the threshold to
new experience, the invitation to move on from where you are to
where there is more for you to learn."
-- Joan Chittister in Light in the
Darkness
"To Practice This Thought: The next
time you face darkness, think about what it is inviting you to
learn. There is nothing in your life too terrible or too sad that
will not be your friend when you find the right name to call it, and
calling it by its own name hastening it will come upright to your
side."
-- Laurens van der Post quoted in
Behold Your Life by Macrina Wiederkehr
"In trying to control everything, we
make our world smaller. Instead, we can open into a larger world
where we are not in charge, but are a part of something much larger
— something deeply wondrous."
-- Philip Martin in The Zen Path
through Depression
"You have to do your own growing, no
matter how tall your grandfather was."
-- Abraham Lincoln
"There are places and moments in which
one is so completely alone that ones sees the world entire."
-- Jules Renard
"Happiness is a conscious choice, not
an automatic response."
-- Mildred Barthel
"Keep your face to the sunshine and
you cannot see the shadow."
-- Helen Keller
"Courage is the power to let go of the
familiar."
-- Raymond Lindquist
"You gain strength, courage, and
confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear
in the face."
--Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962
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