Today I am updating my collection of quotations. When I first separated one of the things I did to keep my spirits up was to write down uplifting quotes I picked up from various sources. I have continued that collection for four years now. So, today I have assembled all my various scraps of paper and am busy typing to put them in my binder. Sometimes, as a gift I print off a copy for people in hopes it helps them in the way it helps me. Here are a few I hope you'll like.
When we die, we lose everything that life gave us except love ~ Henri Noewen
Where you're at is where the blessing is ~ Joel Osteen
Fear and faith both ask you to believe in something you can't see ~ J.O.
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have ~ Thomas Merton
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them ~ T.M.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony ~ T.M.
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another ~ T.M.
We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us" T.M.
Perhaps I am stronger than I think ~ T.M.
the cure for pain is the pain ~ Rumi
Sadness to me is the happiest time ~ Rumi
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn~ Rumi
Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it ~ Rumi
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form ~ Rumi
Within tears, find hidden laughter. Seek treasures among ruins, sincere one ~ Rumi
