I've been trying to focus on the positive, and in doing so I've discovered that inspirational quotes seem to life me up and inspire me. I'll try to post them as I come across them, but for now please enjoy these that I have found:
"Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful." ~ 14th Dalai Lama
"To understand everything is to forgive everything." ~ Gautama Siddharta
"Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know." ~ Zen Proverb
"The basic fact is that all sentient beings, particularly human beings, want happiness and do not want pain and suffering." ~ 14th Dalai Lama
"Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected." ~ Sogyal Rinpoche
"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows." ~Buddha
"In your hopelessness is the only hope, and in your desirelessness is your only fulfillment, and in your tremendous helplessness suddenly the whole existence starts helping you." ~Osho
And, just a few more to ponder....
"There comes a point in life when you get tired of chasing everyone and trying to fix everything, but it's not giving up. It's realizing you don't need certain people and the drama they bring. " ...“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.” ~Mercedes Lackey “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” ~Sydney Smith "when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." "Life is too short to sleep on low threadcount sheets" "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” ~Maria Robinson “For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.” ~Flora Whittmore “There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction” ~Winston Churchill "Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two." -St. Augustine There is only one happiness in life -- to love and to be loved. ~George Sand "When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams." ~Dr Seuss You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly. ~Sam Keen To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. ~Heather Cortez "A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."~ Agatha Christie "By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class."~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh "A mother is she who can take the place of all others but whose place no one else can take." ~Cardinal Mermillod "A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary." ~ Dorothy Canfield Fisher "Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother." ~ Lin Yutang "You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes. ~Walter M. Schirra, Sr. Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy. ~Author Unknown “I would 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.” |
