While looking through my memory box, I came across a document my mom created and gave me several years ago entitled "Favorite Quotes and Inspiration," and I want to share it because, since her death, I've been asking her to talk to me, help me, tell me what to do, etc. I realized I just needed to listen longer and remember more. - Celebrate our differences
- Don't let someone else rent space in your head
- That's the worst I think, when a secret stays locked within not for the want of a teller, but for the want of an understanding ear. (Stephen King)
- Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our heart and we are never, ever the same.
- Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past
- I would like to be in a relationship with someone as crazy as me, so I can STOP explaining myself
- Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes, courage is the little voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
- Life is a dance when you take the steps
- Words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless (goes for good or abusive words)
- We tend to see things not as they are, but see them as who we are
- Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside of you while you are alive and not being true to yourself.
- Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Courage is the power to let go of the familiar, and let your curiosity take you on a journey
- One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks
- It you let go of the past instead of getting in it, your heart will be open and ready to receive the new gifts life has in store
- When people really listen to what we are saying, we feel that they really care. In fact, you could say, listening is love in action.
- I could complain the rosebush has thorns or rejoice the thorn bush has a rose
- The only person who is truly free, is the one who can say "no" without an excuse
- Anxiety is the space between the "NOW" and the "THEN"
- Try something new three times. Once, to get over the fear of something new; twice, to learn to do it; and third, to decide whether or not you like it.
- Finish every day and be done with it. Life is too short to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
- We worry who a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that they are someone today
- Yes, risk taking is inherently failure prone; otherwise, it would be called "sure-thing taking."
- Goals that are not written down and committed to usually become mere wishes
- To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are
- Words that come from the heart enter the other's heart
