December 28
"You have brains in your head and feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose." -Dr. Seuss
December 27
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same." -Carlos Castaneda
December 23
"My soul magnifies The Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Saviour, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me- holy is his name." -Luke 1:46b-49
December 22
"There is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is in how beautiful sad songs can be. So don't think being sad is to be avoided. It's apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling, feeling anything is good, even if that feeling is sadness." -Joseph Gordon-Levitt
December 21
"That row of icicles along the gutter
Feels like my armory of hate;
And you, you... You, you utter...
You wait!"
-Robert Frost (BEYOND WORDS)
Feels like my armory of hate;
And you, you... You, you utter...
You wait!"
-Robert Frost (BEYOND WORDS)
December 20
"In rainy weather
Who can tell
Whether we weep
Or not?
I dread the sun
For his fierce honesty."
-Dorothy Livesay (In The Street)
Who can tell
Whether we weep
Or not?
I dread the sun
For his fierce honesty."
-Dorothy Livesay (In The Street)
December 19
"Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says
To the Earth
'You owe me.'
Look
What happens
With a love like that.
It lights
The Whole
Sky."
-Hafiz
After
All this time
The Sun never says
To the Earth
'You owe me.'
Look
What happens
With a love like that.
It lights
The Whole
Sky."
-Hafiz
December 18
"She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid,
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by -
And never knew."
-MASKS by Shel Silverstein
And so did he.
He kept it hid,
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by -
And never knew."
-MASKS by Shel Silverstein
December 17
"Joy and woe are woven fine
Clothing for the soul divine
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine."
-William Blake
Clothing for the soul divine
Under every grief and pine
Runs a joy with silken twine."
-William Blake
December 16
"The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing." -Zephaniah 3:17
December 15
"Sometimes I imagine life like a piano. The white keys represent happiness, while the black keys represent sadness. But as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys make music too." -Unknown
December 13
"What today throws at you will force you to become better or bitter, it will push you towards breakdown or breakthrough, nudge you a step closer to courage, nobility, charity, integrity, and honour, or otherwise..." -Brian McLaren
December 12
"It has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. My mom says some days are like that. Even in Australia." -Judith Viorst (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day)
December 11
"You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful." -Amy Bloom
December 10
"If you want something in your life you've never had, you'll have to do something you've never done." -J.D. Houston
December 9
"Because of the tender mercy of our God; by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace." Luke 1:78-79
December 8
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." -Agatha Christie
December 7
"May you always be blessed with walls for the wind, a roof for the rain, a warm cup of tea by the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you, and all that your heart might desire." -an Irish Blessing
December 6
"Use what talents you posses. The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang the best." -Henry Van Dyke
December 5
"Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nurturing to the whole [person]." -Maya Angelou
December 3
"You can have grief without adventure, but you cannot have adventure without grief." -Catherynne M. Valente
December 2
"In you I trust, O my God. Do not let me be put to shame nor let my enemies triumph over me." Psalm 25:2
December 1
"You can't fall if you don't climb. But there's no joy in living your whole life on the ground." -Dr. Seuss
November 30
"If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long. When you think you've had to much of this life to hang on well, everybody hurts sometimes. And everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes, so hold on, hold on." -REM
November 29
"I can change the world with my own two hands, make the world a better place with my own two hands, make a kinder place with my own two hands." -Ben Harper
November 28
"Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final." -Rainer Maria Rilke
November 27
"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." -Albert Camus
November 26
"When you are born, your courage is new and clean. You are brave enough for anything: crawling off of staircases, saying your first words without fearing that someone will think you are foolish, putting strange things in your mouth. But as you get older, your courage attracts gunky and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can get and what pain feels like. By the time you're half-grown, your courage barely moves at all, it's so grunged up with living. So, every once in awhile, you have to scrub it up and get the works going or you will never be brave again." -Catherynne M. Valente (The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making)
November 25
"For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith - and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God." Ephesians 2:8
November 24
"Please hold onto your hope. It is in such limited supply around the world these days. Hold onto it and be proud that you are one of the ones that does." -Tyler Knott Gregson
November 21
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts." -Sir Winston Churchill
November 20
"Sometimes you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are." -H.G. Wells
November 18
"For great is his love toward us, and the faithfulness of The Lord endures forever." Psalm 117:2
November 17
"Do your little bit of good where you are, it's those little bits of good out together that overwhelm the world." -Desmond Tutu
November 14
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." -Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
November 12
"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting." -e.e. cummings
November 11
"Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for You are the one I praise." -Jeremiah 17:14
November 10
"Will you love the you you hide if I but call your name? Will you quell the fear inside and never be the same? Will you use the faith you've found to reshape the world around, through My sight and touch and sound in you and you in Me?" -John L. Bell
November 9
"The great lesson is... that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbours, friends, and family, in one's backyard." -Abraham Maslow
November 8
"Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." -Christopher Robin (from Winnie-the-Pooh)
November 7
"Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day." -Henri Nouwen
November 6
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost
November 5
"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine." -Anthony J. D'Angelo
November 4
"You will go out in joy, and be led forth in peace, the mountains and hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands." Isaiah 55:12
November 3
"Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys." -Rita Schiano
November 2
"Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world." -Thich Nhat Hanh
November 1
"So this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." -Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of being a Wallflower)
October 29
"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others." -Peace Pilgrim
October 28
"For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, or love, and of self-discipline." 2Tim 1:7
October 27
"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us." -Anne Lamott
October 26
"For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile." -Elie Wiesel
October 24
"So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
October 23
"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." -Frank A. Clark
October 21
"No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." 1John 4:12
October 19
"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails." -Elizabeth Edwards
October 18
"Don't lose your way with each passing day. You've come so far, don't throw it away. Live believing dreams are for weaving, wonders are waiting to start. Live your story, faith, hope, and glory. Hold to the truth in your heart." -James Horner
October 17
"Maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. It's gonna hurt. It's gonna hurt because it matters." -John Green
October 15
"We could all fall at any moment. Remember that." -Mrs. Gibbs (from The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman)
October 14
"Trust in The Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight." Proverbs 3:5-6
October 13
"Fairy tales a more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." -G.K. Chesterton
October 11
"At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities." -Jean Houston
October 10
"Do we believe our own harsh critiques and feel we must look 'together,' polished, and professional all the time? Or can we just be authentic and look like the messy explorers that we are for awhile?" -Suzanne Falter-Barns
October 7
"Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ." Galatians 6:2
October 6
"What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through the mountains." -Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire)
October 5
"If you're brave enough to say good-bye, life will reward you with a new hello." -Paulo Coehlo
October 4
"You have what you need for this moment.
You make a difference more than you know.
You a held in the arms of the One
who will never let you go." -Holley Gerth
You make a difference more than you know.
You a held in the arms of the One
who will never let you go." -Holley Gerth
October 3
"Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.'" Mary Anne Radmacher
October 2
"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival." -Audrey Lorde
October 1
"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out." -Vaclav Havel
September 30
"...suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us." Romans 5:3b-5
September 28
"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong." -Laura Ingalls Wilder
September 26
"The distinguishing characteristic of absolute despair is silence. There is a world of difference between the person who , believing that there is no use, says so to [themselves] or to no one, and the person who says it aloud to someone else. A person who marks [their] trail into despair remembers hope - and thus has hope, even if only a little." -Wendell Berry
September 24
"How you can think so well of us,
and be the God you are,
is darkness to my intellect,
but sunshine to my heart."
-Frederick Faber
and be the God you are,
is darkness to my intellect,
but sunshine to my heart."
-Frederick Faber
September 23
"And what does The Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." Micah 6:8
September 21
"The Lord replied, 'My precious, precious, child, I love you and I would never, never leave you during your times of trial and suffering. When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.'" -Mary Stevenson
September 20
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do." -Edward Everett Hale
September 19
"Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim." -Tyler Knott Gregson
September 18
"Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence." - Max Ehrmann
September 17
"Your mission: be so busy loving life that you have no time for hate, regret, or fear." -Karen Salmansohn
September 16
"Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say again: rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your mins in Christ Jesus." Phil 4:4-7
September 15
"A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but its persistence." -Jim Watkins
September 14
"When you were born God was having a great day, and it shows. Thank God it shows." -The Jellydots
September 13
"You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes." - Winnie-the-Pooh
September 12
"There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal." -Henri J. M. Nouwen
September 11
"Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place." -Kurt Vonnegut
September 10
"If I could hear Christ praying for me... I would not fear a million enemies." -Robert Murray M'Cheyne
September 9
"In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33b
September 8
"The heart breaks and breaks and lives by breaking. It is necessary to go through dark and deeper dark and not to turn." -Stanley Kunitz
September 7
"While loving God does not mean life is always going to be rosy, maintaining your faith through adversity leaves a lasting impression." -Maria Holmen
September 5
"Everything in the Universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
September 4
"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our private opinion. What a [person] thinks of himself [or herself] that is which determines, or rather, indicates, his [or her] fate." -Henry David Thoreau
September 3
"Maybe you have to know the darkness before you appreciate the light." -Madeline L'Engle
September 2
"Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will bring me up. You will increase my honor and comfort me once again." Psalm 71:20-21
September 1
"Life is only lent to us." -Jewish Proverb
"Long life... Is given for the gift of insight: to give us time to understand life and to profit from its lessons and to learn from its failures and to use its moments well and make sense of its chaos." -Joan Chittister
"Long life... Is given for the gift of insight: to give us time to understand life and to profit from its lessons and to learn from its failures and to use its moments well and make sense of its chaos." -Joan Chittister
August 29
"Ah yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or you can learn from it." -Rafiki (The Lion King)
August 28
"Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things." -Dr. Leonardo Buscaglia
August 26
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matt 7:34
August 25
"As you take the normal opportunities of your daily life and create something of beauty and helpfulness, you improve not only the world around you but the world within you." -Dieter Uchtdorf
August 24
"Life is not perfect; some of life just is. A great deal of mental, psychological, and spiritual health comes from learning to endure the heat of the average day and to wear both it's banes and it's blessings with a tempered heart." -Joan Chittister
August 23
"Just because He doesn't answer doesn't mean He don't care. Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers." -Garth Brooks
August 22
"What if Your blessings come through raindrops? What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights are what it takes to know You're near? what if the trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise?" -Laura Story
August 21
"It is our choices that show who we truly are, far more than our abilities." -Albus Dumbledore (Harry Potter)
August 19
"In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition in thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God." Phil 4:6
August 18
"Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but no more difficult than remaining in a situation which is not nurturing the whole woman." -Maya Angelou
August 16
"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams." -Jonas Salk
August 15
"Could it be that everything is sacred? And all this time everything I've dreamed of has been right before my eyes." -Caedmon's Call (Sacred)
August 12
"Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind." Romans 12:2
August 11
"Hey good-looking' why the frown? You always look better when it's upside down." -Joel Plaskett
August 10
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway." -Eleanor Roosevelt
August 9
"Alway decide 'I will combat it by humble love.' If you resolve on that once and for all, you can conquer the whole world." -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
August 8
"The essence of courage is being willing to feel our heart, to be present to the moment and to be open to the other, even when things are difficult or painful." -Sister Stan
August 7
"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." -Martin Luther King Jr.
August 6
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." -Victor Hugo (from Les Miserables)
August 4
"Goodness is stronger than evil. Love is stronger than hate. Light is stronger than darkness. Life is stronger than death." -Desmond Tutu
August 3
"God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls, and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you too." -Rick Warren
August 2
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao Tzu
July 30
"It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart." -Finnick Odair (The Hunger Games)
July 29
"Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do note see." Hebrews 11:1
July 27
"Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue. And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true." -E.Y. Harburg
July 25
"If I wasn't tough, I wouldn't be here.
If I wasn't gentle, I wouldn't deserve to be here."
-Elvis
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