9-9-2018 – Nuggets of Wisdom

Remember a positive thought will always push away a negative thought if the positive thought has a feeling of goodness and hope behind it. For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.’ – Author unknown.

Good self-talk is music to your ears. It contains powerful thoughts that you enjoy singing to yourself all day long. It has the ring of truth and moves you in the direction of your dreams.

 “On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God:...”
Why did you permit this?
Why don’t you do something about it?”

For a while he said nothing. That night he replied, quite suddenly:
“I certainly did something about it.” “I made you” – Author unknown.

 ” You are only going to be as good as the people you surround yourself with, so be brave enough to let go of those who keep weighing you down! Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discus events. Small minds discuss people. – E Roosevelt.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Secondly, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” – Arthur Schopenhauer.

Don’t lose yourself trying to hold onto someone who doesn’t care about losing you.
Don’t lose your dignity and self respect trying to make people love and appreciate you, when they just aren’t capable – Author Unknown.

Love is when you look into someone’s eyes and see their heart – Author Unknown.

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Hate less, love more; and all good things are yours – Swedish proverb.

Start by asking yourself whether each of your relationships drags you down or lifts you up. Surrounding yourself with positive loving people is half the battle of living a happy successful life! To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping – Chinese Proverb.

Letting our love flow cannot be done with negative walls around us. We must release ourselves from the prison that we create ourselves. – Author Unknown.

Courage:

Robert the Bruce and the Story of the Spider After his last defeat he fled from Scotland and took refuge in a wretched hut on an island off the north coast of Ireland.

Here he stayed all alone during one winter. It is said that one day, while he was very down-hearted, he saw a spider trying to spin a web between two beams of his hut.

The little creature tried to throw a thread from one beam to another, but failed. Not discouraged, it tried four times more without success. “Five times has the spider failed,” said Bruce.

“That is just the number of times the English have defeated me. If the spider has courage to try again, I also will try to free Scotland!”

He watched the spider. It rested for a while as if to gain strength, and then threw its slender thread toward the beam. This time it succeeded

🌷To make a difference in someone’s life you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful or perfect. You just have to care. – Mandy Hale.

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. – Jiddu Krishnamurti.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. – Chief Joseph.