“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” ~ Hafiz
“Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.”
~ Og Mandino
“We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.”
~ John F. Kennedy
“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.”
~ Deep Roy
“Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.”
~ Henry Ford
“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility . . .”Â
~ Thomas a Kempis
“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.”
~ Thomas Paine
“HeartMath found that five minutes of feeling love and care can strengthen your immune system for up to six hours, whereas five minutes of feeling angry can weaken and suppress the immune system for six hours. Love releases very powerful, beneficial chemicals into the body.”
~ Marci Shimoff
“I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!” ~ Dr. Suess
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.”
~ Anne Lamott
