Someone who was facing a bout of Lyme disease posted a bunch of motivational phrases that helped him. Since I love optimistic, motivational STUFF, I thought I would share this. Maybe one will pop out at you and make a difference in your life.
“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” – Oprah Winfrey
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” – William James
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.” – Christopher Morley
“He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.” – Koran
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.” – W.H. Auden
“Every artist was first an amateur.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.” – Charles W. Eliot
“We need men who can dream of things that never were.” – John F. Kennedy
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.” – Cicero
“Man is the artificer of his own happiness.” – Henry David Thoreau
“We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.” – Joseph Addison
“I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.” – Oscar Levant
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.” – M.L. Mencken
“Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.” – Elsa Maxwell
“Knowledge is power.” – Sir Francis Bacon
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for awhile I was a suspect.” – Steven Wright
“You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.” – Woodrow Wilson
“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” – Marian Evans
“A ship in harbor is safe— but that is not what ships are for.” – John A. Shedd
“Courage is being scared to death – but saddling up anyway.” – John Wayne
“Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.” – David McCullough
burst [someone’s] bubble To disabuse; to open someone’s eyes; to shatter someone’s illusions; also pop or break [someone’s] bubble and to prick or put a pin in [someone’s] balloon. This expression refers to the fragile nature of both soap bubbles and human illusions.
everything tastes of porridge An expression used to inject a note of reality into our daydreams. The point is that no matter how grandiose our schemes or how successful our self-delusions, the taste of porridge or the reality of our domestic affairs will always be there to impinge on our fantasies. Porridge, formerly a staple in every household, is a most appropriate symbol of the practical, basic nature of home life.
Today I was disillusioned. There is no other way to put it. It kicked me in the gut and I went from challenged, but optimistic to disillusioned in one second flat. I felt like an inflated tire pierced by a guided missile, losing all my air in one swift gush. I was poised to leap from one precipice to the other, sure I would meet with success, when someone handed me a tape measure- aka, "reality", and I stood dumbfounded, teetering on the edge with nowhere to go. The rug was pulled. I had a rude awakening.
(I wonder how many more analogies I can come up with?)
In other words, it was not a good moment.
I will update this post when I recover. ======================================================2018: Evidently I recovered.
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