Quotes are my favorite. I like quotes because they inspire me. They are like a snapshot in time ... when someone said a sentence that captured how I have felt, how I'm feeling now or how I would like to feel someday ...
There are books of quotes in most book stores, but the Internet has made them even easier to find. Just type in "Quote + Healing" or "Quote + Love" or "Quote + Hope" or if humor cheers you up, "Humorous Quotes" ... No telling what you will end up with "GOOGLE-ing" that one!
Here are a few I found to get you started:
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.
- Eli Wiesel
When you are going through hell, keep on going.
Never never never give up.
- Winston Churchill
Be the change you wish to see in the world.
- Ghandi
If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison
Peace.
It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise,
trouble or hard work.
It means to be in the midst of those things and
still be calm in your heart.
- Unknown
Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising each time we fall.
- Confucius
The world is a dangerous place to live,
not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything about it
- Albert Einstein
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
Experience is not what happens to you;
it's what you do with what happens to you.
- Adlous Huxley
Never be bullied into silence.
Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
- Harvey Fienstein
I can only be responsible for my own happiness.
- Paul
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an
invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
- Theodore Parker
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
- Marcel Proust
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
- Abraham Lincoln
Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.
- Allen K. Chalmers
One may not reach the dawn save by path of night.
- Khalil Gribran
The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
- Jacques Bénigne Bossuet
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
- Nietzsche
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile...
initially scared me to death.
- Betty Bender
What should I be but just what I am?
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of the overcoming of it.
- Helen Keller
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Confucius
Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy,
for it means pushing back a boundary-line and
adding to one's liberty.
- Henri Frédéric Amiel
Our sorrows and wounds are healed
only when we touch them with compassion.
- Buddha
What I am is good enough if I could only be it openly.
- Carl Rogers
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems,
but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred,
and rarely at the summit of courage.
What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom.
The freedom that comes with the knowledge
that no earthly thing can break you.
- Paula Giddings
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you
to believe your critics are right.
To map out a course of action and follow it to an end
requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
Peace has its victories,
but it takes brave men and women to win them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You may be deceived if you trust too much,
but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.
- Frank Crane
<FONTFACE=ARIAL>The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
The world is a dangerous place to live,
not because of the people who are evil,
but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have,
and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
- Carl Sandburg
Finish each day and be done with it.
You have done what you could;
some blunders and absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
Tomorrow is a new day;
you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit
to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why?
Just as the seed of health is in illness,
because illness contains information,
your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge
if you explore them.
- Marilyn Ferguson
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intent of throwing it at someone else -
you are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
- Kahlil Gibran
Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than fear.
- Ambrose Redmoon
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