Inspirational Quotes

I love inspirational quotes, funny quotes, or quotes that just make you ponder.  Here are a few of my favorites.  Check back because as I run across new ones, I’ll be adding them.

The Towel

A towel is about the most massively useful thing a person could have. Partly, it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you and your loved ones for warmth, you can lie on it on the brilliant white sand beaches, you can sleep under it beneath the stars, use it to sail a mini raft down winding rivers, wet it for use in hand-to-hand combat, wave it in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough. Most importantly, however, the towel has immense psychological value. As it can be used in the cases above, everyone will know that a person who can rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is... is clearly a force to be reckoned with.
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You change for two reasons:  Either you learn enough that you want to, or you’ve been hurt enough that you have to.

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?  Robert Schuller

Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.

It's not how things start that matters... it's how we chose to end them. The choices made now will build our future and show us for what we truly are. You can't ever go back and have a new beginning... but you can always craft a brand new ending to your story.

I came across this and it gave me something to really think about. . . I hope it will do the same for you.  I was curious on finding out what happened to "American Idol" Danny Gokey's wife Sophia and how she had died. I came across a blog he wrote on the website of the foundation he started in her name Sophia's Heart. I found it very inspirational and thought that not only does it apply to the death of a loved one but to life in general. I applaud his strength.

“When I let go, that is when I was able to move forward.  The doorway to your future and destiny is only big enough for you to walk through, not you and your past.  Past and future don’t mix.  It’s either one or the other.  If you hold on to your past, your future will only be revisiting the past over and over again.  I know it seems hard and it’s not the answer you might want to hear, but take it from someone who has been there.  I can tell you, it has been 1,000 times better to just let go than it was to hang on and demand answers and justice.  So many families are torn apart because of people’s unwillingness to let go by forgiving and forgetting.  Many people tend to think that emotions of anger and unforgiveness will bring about justice; yet scientific studies link those emotions to many harmful diseases, which often lead to an early death. 

I’ve made a choice to be free.  I’ve made a choice to cherish and be thankful for the wonderful times I shared with Sophia.  It’s not easy.  Some mornings I’ll wake up and be plagued with anger and sadness, yet I CHOOSE to release those emotions and I CHOOSE to exercise gratefulness, which always makes for a better day.  With that powerful principal, I was able to remove from my heart the roots and growth planted by seeds of bitterness, and I allowed the seeds of thankfulness and joy to take its place.  Soon I believe it won’t be as much of a battle because my heart will only harbest and cultivate those attributes.

I strongly urge you to examine your life, release and let go once and for all those things that have held you back.  It could be a harmful self-image, disappointments, setbacks, wrong relationships or anything else that hold you in the pit of your past and keeps you from embracing your present and future.  Become like a child and don’t let your heart hang onto those things, but let it always bounce back with new hopes and second chances.  The best is yet to come for you!  Believe it, it’s yours for the taking!”

There is a moment in one's life when you have to decide if you are living up to your potential. At the end of the day when you reach the pearly gates you will be with you, not and not your spouse/partner. Can you say to yourself that he brings out the best in you, supports the best in you and can you say that with him you are more of who you are meant to be? Sometimes no matter the pain, sometimes the cord must be cut to release the new life.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Comes the Dawn

After awhile you learn the subtle difference between holding hands and chaining souls.
You learn that love doesn’t mean leaning and company doesn’t mean security.
You begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises.
You begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open,
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child.
You learn to build all of your roads on today
Because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans,
and futures have a way of falling down in midflight.
After awhile you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So, you plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
You learn that you really can endure..That you really are strong…That you really do have worth…And you learn and you learn…
With every goodbye, you learn.

"It is crucial that we understand that we are human beings who are fallible. All of us. And we all fall. And we all have the opportunity to get back up again.
We can't depend on other people to deliver us...only we can break our own chains. But once we finally have the strength to do so, we can love ourselves in a way no one else can."

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered; forgive them anyway. If you are kind, People may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, People may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; Give the world the best you've got anyway. You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; It was never between you and them anyway.
-Mother Teresa

The path to inner peace
is
the relinquishing of all desire
to affect
things that are beyond one’s control

Watch your thoughts; they become words
Watch your words; they become actions
Watch you actions; they become habits
Watch your habits; they become character
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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