Quotable Quotes 2

[David Baxter PhD]

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Psychotherapy

I'll show you me, what there is to see,
the dreams, the fears, the anger inside.
I'll bring you into the darkness with me
if you hold the flame high
and warn me of demons
dancing in the shadows.
You've walked these caves before,
you know the sharp edges
and where the path narrows.
You've seen the ancient pictures
of hunted beasts.
You've seen this place, though not with me.
You can show me where the water flows,
where the sun breaks through,
where the gems glitter under the sand.
I'll show you me,
what there is to see,
if you walk ahead and hold the light.

? 1995 Veronica A. Shoffstall

 

[Cat Dancer]

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"The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - and never knowing."
- David Viscott

"Remember to be true to your essential uniqueness."
- Max Dixon

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity."
-Gilda Radner

"The best lesson you can learn in life is how to pick yourself up off the floor, dust yourself off, and get on with things, because if there's one certainty in life, it's that you'll get knocked down many times."
-a.c ping

 

[Cat Dancer]

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Someday I will smile
And find the warmth of my smile
Reflected back to me
Someday I will reach out
And find that I only have to reach halfway
For someone will be reaching out to me
Someday I will find
The true meaning of the word Love
That many use so carelessly
Someday I will find
Someone with whom I can share
But for now I must try to know myself
And the world around me
So when the time comes for me to give
I will know the meaning of my gift

Javan

 

[Cat Dancer]

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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
~ Dale Carnegie

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth?is potentially to have everything.
~ Joan Didion

 

[Cat Dancer]

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"A gentle word is never lost...
It cheers the heart when sorrow-tossed,
And lulls the cares that bruise it."
-Hastings

 

[stargazer]

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"First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight with you. Then, you win."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
-- Albert Einstein

 

[Lana]

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"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children"
~ Sam Levenson

"The worst sensation I know of is getting up at night and stepping on a toy train."
~ Kin Hubbard

"Children really brighten up a houshold - they never turn the lights off"
~ Ralph Bus

"Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million-dollar Stradivarious to a gorilla."
~ Jim Bishop

"Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate"
~ Woody Allen

"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your head."
~ Martin Mull

"There are only two things that a child will share willingly - communicable diseases and its mother's age"
~ Benjamin Spock

"I don't feel old -- I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap."
~ Bob Hope

"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old."
~ Jean Kerr

 

[Cat Dancer]

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Hope seeps in through the chinks in your denial, your pain, your inertia. It erodes your cynicism.
~ Kimberly Ridley

And yet, when I look up to the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.
~ Anne Frank

 

[Cat Dancer]

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Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
- The Buddha

Today is the only time we can possibly live.
- Dale Carnegie

 

[Cat Dancer]

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Don't let yourself be paralyzed by fear, which prevents so many people from living out their dreams.
- Mark Fisher

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott

 

[stargazer]

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"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

[David Baxter PhD]

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Most of the quotes people have posted here are way deeper than my favorites, among which is this one:

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." ~ Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)

 

[David Baxter PhD]

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"I took a course in speed reading and I was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia."

~ Woody Allen

 

[Cat Dancer]

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"In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost."
~ Anne Sophie Swetchine


"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
~ George Eliot

 

[Cat Dancer]

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So you made a mistake. It isn't the end of the world. You'll never be a perfect human being, but learning from mistakes makes you perfectly human.
-Renee Duvall

 

[Cat Dancer]

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
- John F. Kennedy

And the days went by like paper in the wind
Everything changed, then changed again
- Tom Petty

 

[Cat Dancer]

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
- Lord Byron

There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
- Elie Wiesel

If you can't fly, then run.
If you can't run, then walk.
If you can't walk, then crawl.
But whatever you do, keep moving.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

[Cat Dancer]

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"The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach, is joy.Take joy."
--Fra Giovanni

 

[Cat Dancer]

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Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
- Robert Johnson

 

[Into The Light]

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"Courage is about doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
-Eddie Rickenbacker