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It's not the load...

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” ~Lena Horne

Proverb

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today. ~Cherokee Proverb

Rumi

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ~Rumi

We are what we think.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Why be normal?

Being normal is not necessarily a virtue – it rather denotes a lack of courage. ~Stockard Channing as Aunt Francis in Practical Magic

Self-esteem

I have learned that self-esteem is just that: SELF-esteem. Not wife-esteem or lover-esteem or even sponsor-esteem. It has to come from ME, not from others opinions of me. ~Al-Anon

Discoveries

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. - William James

Solitude

If you can’t stand solitude, maybe you bore others too. ~Bob Gordon

I love this...

“ Run your fingers through my soul . For once, just once, feel exactly what I feel, believe what I believe, perceive as I perceive, look, experience, examine, and for once; just once, understand.”

Waste not.

"To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are." -Unknown

So true.

"Success is never final and failure never fatal. It's courage that counts." - George F. Tilton

The truth!

"You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; you are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are." - Edgar A. Guest .

Amen.

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." - Timothy Leary

Take care of number one.

"If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end." -Julius Erving

Getting even.

"The only people to get even with are those who have helped you." -Anonymous

I must be super alive.

"Problems are a sign of life." Norman Vincent Peale

Questions

“ You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” - Jim Rohn

Trying hard not to be an idiot.

Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day-to-day living that wears you out. -Anton Chekhov

What if, indeed.

"What if you quit being defeated?" Rob McCarron (my brother)

Forgiveness, Take Two.

"Forgiveness means giving up all hope of a better past." -Landrum Bolling