Inspirational quotes/sayings etc

[Mo34]

My counsellor gave me this to read for various reasons. I have read it somewhere before but had forgotten it. Kind of sums up my sa journey (hopefully including the end bit too with a bit more work!).

***8220;I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost... I am helpless.
It isn't my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don't see it.
I fall in again.
I can't believe I am in the same place.
But, it isn't my fault.
It still takes me a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in. It's a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault. I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I walk down another street.***8221;

[Oddity]

"Sometimes a man needs a soft mattress, but a firm pillow."

[purplerose]

Don't rush things, when the time is right it will happen.

[wjfox]

[Z.]

^ Ah, good old ASMR

[wjfox]

"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
-- Marcus Aurelius

[purplerose]

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.

[Rianne]

" what other people think of you is none of your business"

Very true and one I need to tell myself constantly because what other people think of me is something I'm concerned with pretty much all the time. The truth is they probably don't think about me at all , it's just that I'm sure that if and when they do its all negative, and that really gets to me.

[wjfox]

"We spend our whole lives trying to get to a certain place or acquire certain things so that we may be happy. But true happiness is when you realise you are never going to get to that place or that even when you do you will still be dreaming of a new place or new things. So happiness has to start now, with what we have."
-- Anon

[purplerose]

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and focus on what could go right.

[Z.]

"Uuuuuuuuuuuur Ahhhhrrrrr Uhrrrr Ahhhhrrrr Aaaaarhg." - Chewbacca

[Ronnie_Pickering]

“Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.”
***8213; David Gemmell, Lord of the Silver Bow

[purplerose]

Don't fear failure.
Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.

[Ronnie_Pickering]

Don't like that. Don't fear that at all, because if it happens then you feel terrible, when there's no need to.

[purplerose]

It makes me want to make changes to my life no matter how small the changes are.

[wjfox]

[narlo]

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

[Coffee]

Great thread, really enjoying reading everyone's quotes!

[Dandelion10]

If you have absolute and wholehearted belief in yourself, NOTHING and NOBODY can ever hurt you.

Look in the mirror and tell yourself with absolute conviction that you are a worthwhile person, you are truly loved, you are unique, you have total health, you have inner peace, you are free, you will achieve all the things you want.

Do it everyday. X

[Ronnie_Pickering]

“We human beings are social
beings. We come into the world as
the result of others’ actions. We
survive here in dependence on
others. Whether we like it or not,
there is hardly a moment of our
lives when we do not benefit from
others’ activities. For this reason, it
is hardly surprising that most of
our happiness arises in the context
of our relationships with others.”
~Dalai Lama~

[Baboo]

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."
***8213; Arthur Ashe

Originally Posted by SuBo

"Uuuuuuuuuuuur Ahhhhrrrrr Uhrrrr Ahhhhrrrr Aaaaarhg." - Chewbacca

"Beep boop beep boop boop."
***8213; BB-8

[TTSP]

"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."

[Armadillo]

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

George Bernard Shaw

[wjfox]

[Ronnie_Pickering]

treasure chest of quotes:
http://www.khmerkromrecipes.com/pages/quotes.html

[Dub]

The one quotation that has always stayed with me came from a former karate Sensei of mine, "Even monkeys fall from trees"! In other words, it doesn't matter how "expert" the expert is, they'll always be suceptible to making mistakes!

[Coffee]

^ the indescribable fear of nothing - I like that. Well I don't like it, but you know what I mean.

[wjfox]

[Ronnie_Pickering]

I got new favourite quote:
'Any accomplishment requires effort, courage, and will'
It's true in it, even in day to day tasks.

[mossystone]

This is an excerpt from an article I read online about crushes

... the facts of life have deformed all of our natures. No one among us has come through unscathed. There is too much fear: mortality, loss, dependency, abandonment, ruin, humiliation, subjection. We are, all of us, desperately fragile, ill-equipped to meet with the challenges to our mental integrity: we lack courage, preparation, confidence, intelligence. We don't have the right role models, we were (necessarily) imperfectly parented, we fight rather than explain, we nag rather than teach, we fret instead of analysing our worries, we have a precarious sense of security, we can't understand either ourselves or others well enough, we don't have an appetite for the truth and suffer a fatal weakness for flattering denials. The facts of a perfectly good human emerging from the facts of life are non-existant.

I'm not sure how inspirational this is ... but it is about understanding and forgiving which is inspirational, so yeah