Inspiring / Helpful quotes

[mellowout]

Sometimes people are able to nail down some pretty complex issues in very few words.  I like reading good quotes when I'm down, helps get my mind on the right track.  Feel free to add some to the thread.  I'll start it out with quotes from unknowns...

1.  If you are giving it your attention, you are giving it power. Is it something you want to give power to?
2.  If you tie your fulfillment to things that happen in your environment, you are at the mercy of the constantly changing environment
3.  Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy

[mellowout]

When doubt starts to creep in remind yourself that it is just a story that you are telling yourself!

[forwells]

Post on another forum but i think it great

Stress / anxiety Management is no joke

"A lecturer, when explaining stress control to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "how heavy is this glass of water?" Answers ranged from 20g to 500g.

The lecturer replied...

"The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance. "In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

He continued...

"And that's the way it is with stress control. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on." "As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden. So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can. Relax, pick them up later after you've rested. Life is short. Enjoy it!"

And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life...

* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
* Never buy a car you can't push.
* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.
* Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
* Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird, sleep late.
* The second mouse gets the cheese.
* When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
* Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
* 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.
* We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.
* A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour."

cheers kev 

[mellowout]

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.  ~Glenn Turner

[mellowout]

That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent.  ~Chinese Proverb

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Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[sixpack]

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

I like this one. 

Everybody lives in the same world.  We all have our own views and values.  And we have to know that everyone else has their own.  Trying to color everybody your own shade of blue never works AND it would make for a pretty boring box of crayons.

[mellowout]

Thoughts have no power. They are literally electrical toys that are powered by you. They have no power of their own.

[mellowout]

Nothing is more important than reconnecting w/ your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real. ~ Deepak Chopra

[BruiserBear]

Love reading the quotes everyone. 

[mellowout]

If you feel fear, you are listening to your ego; When you feel joy, you are listening to your spirit.

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Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen.  ~James Russel Lowell

[OhmeohmyPunk]

What does man actually know about himself? Is he, indeed, ever able to perceive himself completely, as if laid out in a lighted display case? Does nature not conceal most things from him — even concerning his own body — in order to confine and lock him within a proud, deceptive consciousness, aloof from the coils of the bowels, the rapid flow of the blood stream, and the intricate quivering of the fibers! She threw away the key. - Friedrich Nietzsche

[mellowout]

“The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.”  Wayne Dyer

[mellowout]

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
J. Donald Walters