Quotable Quotes 2

[Into The Light]

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I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face...
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along...
We must do the things that we think we cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[Into The Light]

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(my apologies if any of these have already been posted before; i haven't read the entire thread.)

To see the world in a grain of sand
and heaven in a wildflower
hold infinity
in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
- William Blake


The world we have created is a product of our thinking.
It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
- Albert Einstein

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu

I was always looking outside myself
for strength and confidence,
but it comes from within.
It is there all the time.
- Anna Freud

Truly it is in the darkness that one finds the light,
so when we are in sorrow,
then this light is nearest of all to us.
- Meister Eckhart

Stop leaving and you will arrive.
Stop searching and you will see.
Stop running away and you will be found.
- Lao Tzu

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves.
We must learn to respect them.
We must learn to listen.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach

Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
- Marshall McLuhan

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha

The appearance of things change according to the emotions,
and thus we see magic and beauty in them,
while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
- Kahlil Gibran

When one door of happiness closes another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one which is opened before us.
- Helen Keller

 

[Cat Dancer]

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Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
-- Isak Dinesen
(I really, really need to remember this one.)


A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
-- Seneca

 

[Cat Dancer]

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Do not belong so wholly to others that you do not belong to yourself.
-- Baltasar Gracian

 

[Cat Dancer]

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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
-Samuel Beckett

"The control center of your life is your attitude."
-Norman Cousins

 

[Cat Dancer]

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I define comfort as self-acceptance when we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
- Jennifer Louden

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
- Louis Nizer

 

[Cat Dancer]

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Old past, let go
And drop into the sea
'Til fathomless waters cover thee;

For I am living
But thou art dead,
Thou drawest back,
I strive ahead
The day to find.

-Unknown

 

[Cheyenne]

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"When you feel like letting go, remember why you held on for so long." - Unknown

^ I'm not sure if this one has been posted before or not.
I like a lot of the quotes here, I actually wrote down a lot of them in a notebook and I read through them on rough days

 

[Into The Light]

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about depression:

It's not a pit, it's merely a dark tunnel that you must journey through until you emerge back out into the sunlight at the other end.

 

[HA]

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A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it. ~Frank A. Clark

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely. ~M*A*S*H, Hawkeye

When love is not madness, it is not love. ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. ~Author Unknown

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. ~Author Unknown

 

[Into The Light]

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. ~ Marcel Proust

 

[David Baxter PhD]

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