Everyone loves quotes and here are some for you!
1. “If I so choose, I can regard everything that happens in my life as a gift from which I can learn and grow. Today I will find something positive hidden within a difficult situation and allow myself to be grateful. I may be surprised at how much a little gratitude can help.” ~ Courage to Change
2. “This often happens when people get sober; all of a sudden, positive energy springs forth that they’d suppressed during the years they were using.” ~ Marianne Williamson
3.”No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.” ~ Louis Brandeis
4. “When it gets dark enough, you can see the stars.” ~ Charles A. Beard
6. ”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 has been opened for us.” ~ Helen Keller
7. ”Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”
~ e. e. cummings
8. ”What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” ~ T.S. Eliot
9. ”Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be.” ~ Raymond Charles Barker
10. ”Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
11.”The moment of enlightenment is when a person’s dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.” ~ Vic Braden
12. ”Hope is not a dream, but a way of making dreams become reality.” ~ Cardinal Leon Joseph Suenens
13. ”Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.” ~ Dr. Joyce Brothers
14. ”Choices are the hinges of destiny.” ~ Pythagoras
15. ”Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.” ~ Louisa May Alcott
Do you have a favorite quote to add? I would love to know…
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Thanks VJ. Those are wonderful quotes. I will keep them for a future post.
Hi Cathy — how wonderful of you to put together such a powerful (and free!) ebook! One of my favorites is the second half of the Serenity Prayer:
Grant me Patience for the things that take time,
Appreciation for all that I have,
Tolerance for others with different struggles, and the
Strength to get up and try again, one day at a time.
Hi Lisa, I love that! What a great idea. I will definitely put that in. You do not hear the second half of the serenity prayer that often, so great reminder. Thanks.
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive– to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.” -Marcus Aurelius
Love that one! Thanks Deb.
thank you for these wonderful quotes! One thing I’ve noticed about being tense (and preoccupied with worry) is that wise and inspired thoughts are few and far between — these quotes are truly nourishing!
Quotes can be powerful and get us to think about things in a new way. Thank you for your comment.