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WORDS OF HOPE



Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)



When you speak the truth, you don't have to remember it.



~ Anonymous



"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow."

--- Melody Beattie



"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

~ Norman Vincent Peale



"If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."



Dolly Parton, Singer, What's Love got to do with it

DEPRESSION



"Whenever someone sorrows, I do not say, "forget it," or "it will pass," or "it could be worse" -- all of which deny the integrity of the painful experience. But I say, to the contrary, "It is worse than you may allow yourself to think. Delve into the depth. Stay with the feeling. Think of it as a precious source of knowledge and guidance. Then and only then will you be ready to face it and be transformed in the process."

--Peter Koestenbaum



"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know that just to be alive is a grand thing."

--Agatha Christie



"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

-- Albert Camus



"Depression is to me as daffodils were to Wordsworth"

 -    Philip Larkin



"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt



"In moments of discouragement, defeat, or even despair, there are always certain things to cling to. Little things usually: remembered laughter, the face of a sleeping child, a tree in the wind-in fact, any reminder of something deeply felt or dearly loved.

No man is so poor as not to have many of these small candles. When they are lighted, darkness goes away-and a touch of wonder remains."

-- "These Small Candles" ...tombstone inscription in Britain



"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

-- Helen Keller



"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

--George Eliott



"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

--Guillaume Apollinaire

 

TAKING ACTION



"Take the first step, no more, no less, and the next will be revealed."

-- Ken Roberts



"After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

--Sophia Loren



"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

--Thomas Edison



"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

--Mark Twain

Galdstone on handling depression with a cup of tea



Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.



 -James Hillman



You handle depression in much the same way you handle a tiger.



 -R. W. Shepherd



Depression moods lead, almost invariably, to accidents. But, when they occur, our mood changes again, since the accident shows we can draw the world in our wake, and that we still retain some degree of power even when our spirits are low. A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.



 -Jean Baudrillard



Depression is only reached the instant your mind rejects the most basic of instincts the need to survive at all costs.



-Demarcole

 

 When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God

- Stevie Wonder

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. --Alan Paton 

"When you look at life through the eyes of gratitude, the world becomes a wonderful place.  The more you find to be grateful about, the more you find to be grateful about.  Gratitude is a wonderful antidote to depression.  It lifts you out of your small self and gives you an expanded view."

I found this annonymous quote today.

I am so grateful for all the new friends I have made in this group. I have been so encouraged during a very difficult week.

Thank you!

Kyra

LEGACY...

 He who gives up last is the first to succeed.

 Pain is only weakness leaving the body.

I hope if dogs ever take over the world, when they chose a king they don't go by size.

There are some Chihuahuas with marvously good ideas and even larger hearts.

>:)Dark Bird(:<

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you candream it, you can become it.

William Arthur Ward

If you would create something,

you must be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

epouncey says ...

Be scared & do it anyway!

- by me

LOVE THIS!!!