Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Courage doesn't happen when you have all the answers.It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life. ~ Shannon L Alder
I was going to post that same Abraham Lincoln quote on the same day you posted it, but I didn't quite get around to it - spooky! Or maybe we've just got down to the last few quotes left in the world...
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” ~ Mary Oliver
“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.” ~ Mary Oliver
“You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.” ~ Mary Oliver
“When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.” ~ Mary Oliver
“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.” ~ Mary Oliver
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.” ~ Mary Oliver
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” ~ Mary Oliver
“Love yourself. Then forget it. Then, love the world.” ~ Mary Oliver, Evidence: Poems
“It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.” ~ Mary Oliver
“By the time you've run your mind through it a hundred times, relentlessly worked out every tic of terror, it's lost its power over you...[Soon it's] a story on a page or, more precisely, everybody's story on a page.” ― John Gardner
Challenge is the pathway to engagement and progress in our lives. But not all challenges are created equal. Some challenges make us feel alive, engaged, connected, and fulfilled. Others simply overwhelm us. Knowing the difference as you set bigger and bolder challenges for yourself is critical to your sanity, success, and satisfaction. ~ Brendon Burchard
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
"We choose to stay, because we are all stories still going. Because there is still some time for things to turn around, time to be surprised and time for change. We stay because no one else can play your part. Life is worth living." ~ Jamie Tworkowski
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