Over the past couple of years I have made a habit of writing down quotes and passages from readings that I found inspiring, when I felt I needed a lift I would take out all the little scraps of paper and read them over, it always seemed to help. Today I was going over them, not because I was down but because I hadnt' done so for awhile. I'll share a couple that seemed significant tonight.
"In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another" Francois De La Rochefoudauld
"Bitterness is the greatest barrier to friendship with God" Rick Warren
"Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less" Rick Warren
"Do not give up hope or yield to despair because of that which is past, for to bewail the irretrievable is the worst of human frailties" Kahlil Gibran
"When you tell your trouble to your neighbour you present him with a part of your heart. If he possesses a great soul, he thanks you; if he possesses a small one, he belittles you" Kahlil Gibran
"We don't need to learn how to let things go, we just need to learn to recognize when they've already gone" Suzuki Roshi
"Being by oneself is not the same as being abandoned. The world is still there" Barbara Feldon
"Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage" Rainer Maria Rilke
"Our purpose in life is not to remain upright at all times but to collapse with grace when that is what has to happen" David Richo
"The fact that "love is blind" gives us all a chance to be loved by somebody" David Richo
"It is not so much our friends' help that helps us but the certain knowledge that they will help us" Epicurus
"To accept the things we cannot change does not mean we roll over but we roll on" David Richo
OK, that's more than a couple but it's my thread and I'll post what I wanna! Goodnight DBers.
