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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." -- Ann Landers --

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." -- Eleanor Roosevelt --

"Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way...Only you can help yourself." -- Mikhail Strabo --

"To be nobody but myself - in a world which is doing it's level best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting" -- EE Cummings (1894-1962) --

Suicide is not chosen, it happens when pain exceeds resources from coping with the pain.

Happiness is not where you think it is.

Sometimes being surrounded by a lot of people is the lonest place to be.

People who question your sexuality usually have something to hide.

The most important things are the hardest to say.

Don't like people for what they have, like them for who they are.

There is a flame in each of us that must never be allowed to go out. As long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed. -" the power of one"

I have been laughed at that many times that it doesn't hurt anymore

Silence is the most powerful cry - "life is beautiful"

When one door of happiness closes, another one opens.

Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say.

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them, I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them" --Mother Teresa--

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle." --Plato--

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (1926- )

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. --William Connor Magee

And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars --Dante Alighieri

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." --William Arthur Ward"

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill

"Only those who will risk going too far can possible find out how far one can go." --(author unknown)

Skilful sailors never learn their skills on calm seas. --(author unknown)

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." --Dale Carnegie

"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear." Marcus Aurelius (121-180 BC)

"Joy and sorrow walk hand in hand. It is impossible to truly know one without having experienced the other." --Anonymous

"Do not be 'against' anything. Being 'against' weakens you. Be 'for' what you want. Being 'for' empowers you." --Wayne Dyer

"To know how to wait is the great secret of success." --Joseph de Maistre

"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round.
Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy.
But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Victory belongs to the most persevering." --Napoleon

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off a if nothing happened." --Sir Winston Churchill

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing." --Agatha Christie

"Thank you for coming. But of course, you know I have nothing to offer you, only empty words."

"You have to have compassion for yourself before you can have compassion for other people."

"Self-hatred and self-loathing often comes from having too high expectations of yourself.
You may need to reduce your expectations of yourself, to accept yourself as you are."

"If you are too greedy or too competitive, you will make yourself unhappy, because you will almost never be satisfied."

"Some pain we experience through the senses, some pain comes from within.
For pain that comes from within, including depression, material things cannot help."

"Happiness is the difference between expectations and outcomes. Sometimes expectations are too high, or we can be too suspicious."

"Help people, because if you help people, you are the one who gets the help. If someone else is helped as well, that is a bonus."

"There are two types of feelings ­ spontaneous, intuitive feelings that come from within, and feelings as a consequence of thoughts. If you change your thoughts, you can change some feelings. For example, before I came to Australia, I had a strong pain in the stomach. Then I saw an old man who was very ill. I empathized with him and as I did so, I felt less pain in my stomach."

"Sometimes you can't do much to change a problem, but you can change how you think about it and in this way you can change how you feel."

"The important thing is to have a good heart, a sense of caring for one another, a sense of community, a sense of humanity. Without these values, a person will not be happy, there will always be some frustrations inside. If you are a believer in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and also if you are a non-believer in any religion, you can still have these values I am not promoting Buddhism. I try to promote human values to promote a happier and more peaceful human society."

"The essence of all spiritual life is your emotion, your attitude towards others. Once you have pure and sincere motivation, all the rest follows. Compassion and human affection: I call these human qualities spirituality."

"Even if only a few individuals try to create mental peace and happiness within themselves, and act responsibly and kind-heartedly towards others, they will have a positive influence in their community."

A creed to live by.

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself to others.
It is because we are different that each of us is special.
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important.
Only you know what is best for you.
Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart.
Cling to them as you would your life, for without them life is meaningless.
Don't let life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future.
By living your life one day at a time, you live up all the days of your life.
Don't give up when you still have something left to give,
Nothing is really over . . . till the moment you stop trying.
Don't be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect.
It is this fragile thread that binds us together.
Don't be afraid to encounter risks.
It is by taking chances, that we learn to be brave.
Don't shut love out of your life by saying it's impossible to find.
The quickest way to receive love is to give love;
the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly;
and the best way to keep love is to give it wings.
Don't dismiss your dreams.
To be without dreams is to be without hope;
to be without hope is to be without purpose.
Don't run through life so fast
that you forget not only where you've been,
but where you are going.
Life is not a race,
but a journey to be savoured every step of the way

Thoughts

Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun.

Birthdays are good for you: the more you have the longer you live.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?

Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.

You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.

Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.

Don’t cry because its over; smile because it happened.

We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to learn to live in the same box.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

Happiness comes through doors you didn’t even know you left open.

Oh yeah, don’t forget about the crayons

“We are not human beings on a spiritual journey.
We are spiritual beings on a human journey.”

-- Stephen Covey --

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret : It is only with the heart that one can see rightly ; what is essential is invisible to the eye. "

-- Antoine de Saint - Exupery, from 'The Little Prince' --

"You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should."

-- Ehrmann, Max --

"No hurt heals by itself. So although we do not choose the ways we are hurt, we can choose the ways we will heal."

-- Unknown --

To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

-- E. E. Cummings - American Poet --

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."

-- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross --

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

-- Mahatma Gandhi - Indian Political and Spiritual Leader --

"Work like you don't need the money, Dance like no one is watching, And love like you've never been hurt."

-- Lao Tzu --

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

-- T. S. Eliot - American-British Poet --

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

-- Helen Keller --

"Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side"

-- Unknown --

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 and 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 about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us; it's 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.

-- Credited to: Nelson Mandela/Marianne Williamson --

"In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to. Little things usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind—in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved.

No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles. When they are lighted, darkness goes away—and a touch of wonder remains."