A
cheerful heart is good medicine.
Proverbs
17:22
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Sir
Winston Churchill
I am confronted by insurmountable opportunity.
Pogo
Possum
I am an old man and have a great many troubles, but most of them
never happened.
Mark
Twain
Humor is the great thing… the minute it crops up, all our
hardnesses yield, all our irritations and resentments slip away
and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark
Twain
Laughter is the lubricant and elixir of life. Being able to laugh
at yourself and the everyday incongruities of your daily situation
is the best way to quell stress. Lighten up and enjoy life!
Susan
Smith Jones
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
Scottish
Proverb
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being
carried on great winds across the sky.
Ojibway
Indian saying
The sun shines not on us, but in us.
John
Muir
Birds sing after a storm, why shouldn’t we?
Rose
Fitzgerald Kennedy
There are two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is
a miracle. The other is as if everything is a miracle.
Albert
Einstein
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the
bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds
in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark
Twain
Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever
is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything
is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Philippians
4:8
This time, like all times, is a very good one if we but know what
to do with it.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
I don’t think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can
do it. If you are determined enough and willing to pay the price,
you can get it done.
Mike
Ditka
To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest
hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing
does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and
sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and
love.
Leo
Buscaglia
Faith is the only known cure for fear.
Lena
Sadler
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
African
Proverb
I will go forth in perfect faith in the power of Omnipresent Good
to bring me what I need at the time I need it.
Paramahansa
Yogananda
What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home
runs.
Babe
Ruth
When one door closes, another opens; but often we look so long at
the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for
us.
Helen
Keller
Faith is not a matter of trusting that events will always occur
to our liking, but of trust that, whatever happens, our inner resources
will be equal to the moment.
John
Robbins and Ann Mortifee
Worry is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William
James
Grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage
to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold
Neibuhr
The secret of abundance is to stop focusing on what you do not have,
and shift your consciousness to an appreciation of all that you
are and all that you do have.
Wayne
Dyer
Remember that not getting what you want sometimes is a wonderful
stroke of luck.
Dalai
Lama
You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing
is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have
to give.
Eleanor
Roosevelt
The decline of vigor in old age is largely the result of people
expecting to decline; they have unwittingly implanted a self-defeating
intention in the form of a strong belief, and the mind-body connection
automatically carries out this intention.
Deepak Chopra
The body is truly a miracle of miracles . . . and should be highly
respected and loved. To experience total aliveness, don't let your
health take a back seat to anything. Cherish, appreciate and nurture
your body.
Susan Smith Jones
When man is serene, the pulse of the heart flows and connects, just
as pearls are joined together or like a string of red jade, then
one can talk about a healthy heart.
The
Yellow Emperor's Canon of Internal Medicine, 2500 B.C.
If we could loosen the grip we have on the mechanical view of our
own bodies and the body of the world, many other possibilities might
come to light. We could exercise the nose, the ear, and the skin,
not only the muscles. We might listen to the music of wind in the
trees, church bells, distant locomotives, crickets and nature's
teeming musical silence. We could train our eyes to look with compassion
and appreciation. . . . The ensouled body is in communion with the
body of the world and finds its health in that intimacy.
Thomas Moore
The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through
my veins night and day and dances in rhythmic measure. It is the
same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into
numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of flowers.
Rabindranath Tagore
Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing
pattern.
Wilhelm Reich
Our mental and emotional diets determine our overall energy levels,
health, and well-being to a far greater extent than most people
realize. Every thought and feeling, no matter how big or small,
impacts our inner energy reserves.
Doc
Childre and Howard Martin
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive
without zest.
Christian
Dior
If we knew how powerful our thoughts are, we would never think a
negative thought.
Peace
Pilgrim
Our cells are constantly eavesdropping on our thoughts and being
changed by them. A bout of depression can wreak havoc with the immune
system; falling in love can boost it. Despair and helplessness raise
the risk of heart attacks and cancer, thereby shortening life. Joy
and fulfillment keep us healthy and extend life. This means that
the line between biology and psychology can't really be drawn with
any certainty. A remembered stress, which is only a wisp of thought,
releases the same flood of destructive hormones as the stress itself.
Deepak Chopra
The best medicine is to stop thinking about yourself, and start
thinking about other people.
Frederic Loomis
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person
or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness
is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Catherine
Ponder
Peter came up and said to Him, “Lord, how often shall my brother
sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?”
Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy
times seven.”
Matthew
18:21-22
Disturbing the peace is a crime. When you rant and rave and stomp
and fret over life’s petty grievances, arrest yourself!
Carol
Ann Morrow
Don’t take yourself and your life so seriously, forgetting
that life is meant to be a great adventure to be lived fully. When
you become too serious, life loses its luster and you have a hard
time being happy.
Susan
Smith Jones
Care more than others think wise. Risk more than others think safe.
Dream more than others think practical. Expect more than others
think possible.
Howard
Schultz
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well
that no one at all would find fault with what he has done.
Cardinal
Newman
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you
up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done
against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale
Carnegie
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift.
Albert
Einstein
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great
days.
Lance Armstrong
(cancer survivor and multiple Tour de France champion)
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and
look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find
them, make them.
George
Bernard Shaw
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into
enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order,
confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into
a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past,
brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody
Beattie
As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if
you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among
the sweetest in a person’s life.
Seneca
Health depends on a state of equilibrium among the various factors
that govern the operation of the body and the mind; the equilibrium
in turn is reached only when man lives in harmony with his external
environment.
Hippocrates (circa 400 B.C.)
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will
flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow
their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while
cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John
Muir
Learn to be a radiant human, and then shine on others.
Sark
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world.
Anne
Frank
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy
and keep you from love.
Leo
Buscaglia
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother
Teresa of Calcutta
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also
what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston
Churchill
“There’s no use in trying,” said Alice. “One
can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you
haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When
I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes
I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis
Carroll
Things work out best for the people who make the best out of how
things turn out.
Art
Linkletter
Life is full of obstacle illusions.
Grant
Frazier
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is
because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca
In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert
Einstein
I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is
the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to
quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the
joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.
Eknath
Easwaran
How necessary it is to cultivate a spirit of joy. I believe we are
called to the duty of delight.
Dorothy
Day
No matter what the question, Love is the answer. No matter what
the pain or illness, Love is the answer. No matter what the loss,
Love is the answer. No matter what the fear, Love is the answer.
Gerald
Jampolsky & Diane Cirincione
He who fears something gives it power over him.
Arab
Proverb
The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself
immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.
Gerald
Jampolsky
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of it? We must have perseverance
and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we
are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie
Curie
To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone.
David
Joseph Schwartz
Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
Joan
of Arc
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your
strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender,
that is strength.
Arnold
Schwarzenegger
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know
that everything in this life has a purpose.
Elisabeth
Kubler Ross
No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can
hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything other than what
you allow inside.
Wayne
Dyer
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary
project, all your thoughts break their bonds; your mind transcends
limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and
you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces,
faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to
be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
Patanjali
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