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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 5, 2013 20:44:37 GMT -5
"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety or fear try to call me, they keep getting a busy signal--and soon they'll forget my number."--Edith Armstrong
“Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.”--Brian Tracey
“If time heals all wounds, then why don't they make Band-Aids with clocks?"--Unknown
"No matter what form of depression you may suffer from, love and acceptance are the two essential elements necessary in developing control over your symptoms."--Amy Weintraub
"Hope is the eternal tool in the survival kit for mankind."--Sidney Poitier, Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-GranddaughterNeed a little TLC? Check out this list for more than 100 ways to take care of you:demandingjoy.com/?p=1024 Hi Mimi! I have not read that book in years, but since you've posted that quote, I now want to give it a second look. Thank you for the contribution, both to the thread and my reading list. Ramatama, that quote certainly describes me as well (as I'm sure it does a lot of other people who are on or visit our board). Thank you for sharing it with us.
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 6, 2013 20:41:27 GMT -5
“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of."--Rachel Naomi Remen
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”--H. Jackson Brown
“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”--Wm. Paul Young, The Shack
"The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being."--Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 7, 2013 22:08:17 GMT -5
"There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect."--Julia Cameron
"Always remember to be kind and loving and patient...with yourself."--Unknown
"Befriending myself seems to be about opening my heart as a homeless shelter for all the destituted and prostituted aspects of my being that I have been running from for years without even knowing that’s what I have been doing."--Dawna Markova, I Will Not Die an Unlived Life: Reclaiming Purpose and Passion
"Discover that you are the one you've been waiting for."--Unknown
"...[We must] get out of our heads and learn to experience the world directly, experientially, without the relentless commentary of our thoughts. We might just open ourselves up to the limitless possibilities for happiness that life has to offer us."--Mark Williams, The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
"You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you."--Dan Millman
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 8, 2013 23:22:40 GMT -5
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”--Mark Twain
"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business."--Norman Vincent Peale
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts."--Penelope Sweet
More Food for Thought:
“It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless.”--Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
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Post by ClutterBlind on Mar 9, 2013 0:14:04 GMT -5
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 9, 2013 19:54:22 GMT -5
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”--Buddha
"It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down."--George MacDonald
"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three--all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."--Edward Everett Hale
"So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done."--Marian Wright Edelman
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."--Ralph Waldo Emerson Clutterblind, I love that pic--I can just hear Maggie Smith saying that to someone on Downton Abbey.
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Post by angela on Mar 9, 2013 23:37:10 GMT -5
Oh that Countess has some really good lines, this is one of them! She said this to Edith I think.
These are some really potent quotes Dragon. I am learning some new ways to think about things as well as some confirmations of ideas I have been trying to apply to my thinking.
Thank you!
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 10, 2013 20:48:50 GMT -5
“For true success, ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?”--James Allen
“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”--Norman Vincent Peale
"You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith."--Mary Manin Morrissey
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”--Alan Cohen
"There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us."--Linda EllerbeeMore Food for Thought:"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."--Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" Angela, I can so see the Countess saying this to someone. I've just started watching Downton Abbey on Netflix--a friend convinced me to give it a look--and I'm absolutely hooked. But since it's already been on for three seasons, I've got a lot of catching up to do. (I'm so glad you're finding this month's quotes so helpful--that makes me very happy. )
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 12, 2013 14:57:06 GMT -5
"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."--Sandy M. Bushberg
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."--Joseph Campbell
"We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are."--John Maxwell
"The thing that is really hard and really amazing is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."--Anna Quindlen
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.” --Richard Bach, One
And a special quote for our brand new board:
"Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights."--Pauline R. Kezer
A special cup of tea and/or coffee to all the admins that worked so hard to make this conversion happen. (Especially Celeste, our resident tech goddess, who is continuing to hammer out all the bugs and problems we might have. Celeste, I have given you my best English china tea cup with some lovely calming tea. And a sedative on the side. )
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Post by CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity on Mar 12, 2013 14:59:50 GMT -5
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Post by Celeste on Mar 13, 2013 1:34:00 GMT -5
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 14, 2013 0:18:03 GMT -5
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."--Albert Camus
“Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you not being authentic somewhere in your life or with someone in your life. Being fake about anything creates a block inside of you. Life can’t work for you if you don’t show up as you.”--Jason Mraz
"I'd much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself."--Brittany Renee
"All of us feel shamed by life. All of us consider ourselves failures of some kind, screw ups in something really important to us. Notice how shame, consciously or unconsciously pulls us away from risk, ratifies our negative sense of worth through self-sabotage or compels us into frenetic efforts of overcompensation or yearning for the validation from others that never comes; how much each of us needs to remember one definition of grace as accepting the fact that we are accepted despite the fact that we are unacceptable."--James Hollis, Ph.D., What Matters Most
"Being strong means rejoicing in who you are, complete with imperfections."--Margaret Woodhouse Celeste, you are most welcome for the tea and scone--I know you need them (and you most assuredly deserve them).
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Post by ramatama on Mar 14, 2013 14:11:56 GMT -5
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."--Albert Camus
I'm going to use that quote -for a bit - I change them periodically- as a signature, it seems to fit these days (for several aspects).
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Post by disorganizeddragon on Mar 14, 2013 18:37:15 GMT -5
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."--Albert Camus
I'm going to use that quote -for a bit - I change them periodically- as a signature, it seems to fit these days (for several aspects). I like that quote by Camus quite a bit. To be honest, it could probably fit me on a lot of days. Here's another for you in the same vein in case you're ever feeling this way in the future, but might like to use a different signature: "Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so."--François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
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Post by messymimi on Mar 14, 2013 20:15:41 GMT -5
"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future." ~ Sivananda
"If only it were always that simple." ~ me
messymimi
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