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12-13-2007, 10:40 AM
The ten most powerful two-letter words: If it is to be, it is up to me.
Sign on my wall reads: "Good morning. This is your Higher Power speaking. I will not be needing your help today."
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly!
It is not the YETS we have to worry about...it's the AGAINS.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
The ultimate lesson all of us have is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross~
Saying Hello to the unknown takes faith. Saying Goodbye to the familiar takes courage.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ~Proust~
Change is what happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of Letting Go.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness. ~James Thurber~
Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your own yardstick.
You can't think your way into right living... you have to live your way into right thinking.
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank~
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean standing on your own and doing something strange in the eyes of others.
Truly loving means letting go of unrealistic expectations. It means full acceptance...even celebration of another's personhood.
Life might be able to be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Learn to Let Go. That is the key to happiness. ~Buddha~
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
Worry is like a rocking chair -- it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.
Serenity isn't freedom from the storm; it's peace within the storm.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power within us.
No one can choose your mountain or tell you when to climb. It's yours alone to challenge, at your own pace and time.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings.
The goal of recovery is balance, but sometimes we get there by going to extremes.
Put as much energy into Letting Go as you have in trying to control. You'll get much better results.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Accepting doesn't necessarily mean liking, enjoying, or condoning. I can accept the reality of what is -- and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
~ Nathaniel Branden~
Hope is the thing with feathers...that perches in the soul...and sings the tune without words...and never stops, at all.
~Emily Dickinson~
Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand.
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
~Gloria Gaither~
We must each paint our rainbows from the colors we are given.
~Joan Walsh Anglund~
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln~
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Learn not to feel threatened by the future...take Life one day at a time.
When you are in doubt, be still and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists, as it surely will. Then act with courage.
http://www.geocities.com/alaura1942/QuotationsRecovery1.html
Sign on my wall reads: "Good morning. This is your Higher Power speaking. I will not be needing your help today."
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
Angels can fly because they take themselves so lightly!
It is not the YETS we have to worry about...it's the AGAINS.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
The ultimate lesson all of us have is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well. ~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross~
Saying Hello to the unknown takes faith. Saying Goodbye to the familiar takes courage.
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves and not to twist them to fit our own image.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ~Proust~
Change is what happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of Letting Go.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness. ~James Thurber~
Everything that happens to you is your teacher. The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.
When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to check your own yardstick.
You can't think your way into right living... you have to live your way into right thinking.
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank~
Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still.
What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean standing on your own and doing something strange in the eyes of others.
Truly loving means letting go of unrealistic expectations. It means full acceptance...even celebration of another's personhood.
Life might be able to be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Learn to Let Go. That is the key to happiness. ~Buddha~
What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do.
Worry is like a rocking chair -- it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.
Serenity isn't freedom from the storm; it's peace within the storm.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The task ahead of us is never as great as the Power within us.
No one can choose your mountain or tell you when to climb. It's yours alone to challenge, at your own pace and time.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings.
The goal of recovery is balance, but sometimes we get there by going to extremes.
Put as much energy into Letting Go as you have in trying to control. You'll get much better results.
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
Accepting doesn't necessarily mean liking, enjoying, or condoning. I can accept the reality of what is -- and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.
~ Nathaniel Branden~
Hope is the thing with feathers...that perches in the soul...and sings the tune without words...and never stops, at all.
~Emily Dickinson~
Instead of pointing a finger, we should hold out our hand.
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
~Gloria Gaither~
We must each paint our rainbows from the colors we are given.
~Joan Walsh Anglund~
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
~Abraham Lincoln~
Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Learn not to feel threatened by the future...take Life one day at a time.
When you are in doubt, be still and wait. When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage. So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists, as it surely will. Then act with courage.
http://www.geocities.com/alaura1942/QuotationsRecovery1.html