As I am feeling strong and moving into the next stage of this transition, I also find I need some great quotations and resources that support the courage it takes to do this. So, in the spirit of community, I thought I'd start a place to post quotes that help people get through the ups and downs of these days. Here goes:
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. -- Richard M. Nixon.
"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." Anon
People are like stained glass windows; they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within." - Dr. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time." Anon
"What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly as important as what you become by reaching them".....Zig Ziglar
"The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow man, respect for justice and freedom will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we dwell. Meanwhile never flinch , never weary, never despair." Winston S Churchill 1952
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." -Albert Pike
"Our greatest duty and our main duty is to help others. And please, if you can’t help them would you please not hurt them?”…. Dalai Lama
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it." - John Ruskin
"We must be willing to let go of the life we had planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." E.M. Forster
"In the depths of winter, I finally have learned that within me there lay an invincible summer" ~Camus
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes." Proust.
"It is never too late to become what you might have been." George Eliot.
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi.
"Sometimes life's shadows are caused by our standing in our own sunshine." Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"If you get rid of the pain before you have answered its questions, you get rid of the self along with it." Jung
"Good morning. This is God. I will be handling all your problems today. I will not need your help."
"If there be anywhere on earth a lover of God who is always kept safe I know nothing of it for it was not shown to me. But this was shown: that in falling and rising again we are always kept in that same precious love." Julian of Norwich
"Overcome any bitterness that you are not up to the magnitude of the pain that was entrusted to you by the universe. Like the mother of the world carries the pain of the world in her breast, each one of us is a part of her heart. Therefore each is endowed with sharing in the totality of that cosmic pain. You are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity." Sufi saying.
Thanks for the opportunity of gathering together a few of my favourites!
Jaybee
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers
Goal, My dad said that one too, and, ironically, he used it when H&me got engaged after dating for five years: he said all relationships come to a point where the people have to sh*t or get off the pot... Hmmm, maybe we should have sat and not sh*t quite so quickly. Would that have helped us?
Thanks for adding a great quote that hits the spot. I'm getting off my pot and back on my upward climb (or am I supposed to get on the pot and get busy?)
