QUOTES
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
― Anaïs Nin
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
― Anaïs Nin
“I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself.” ~ Pietro Aretino
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding." ~ Khalil Gibran
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” ~ Albert Einstein
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
“Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.” ~ Tecumseh
"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master." ~ Epictetus
If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy,
can be our teacher.” ~ Pema Chodron
"She’s mad but she’ magic.
There’s no lie in her fire.”
~Charles Bukowski
"I am strong because I know my weakness,
I am beautiful because I know my flaws,
I am fearless because I have learned to recognize illusion from real,
I am wise because I learn from my mistakes,
I am a lover because I have felt hate,
I am courageous because I have been afraid,
I can laugh because I have known sadness,
I am alive because I'm a fighter..
I am me because I walk my path and choose each step."
Suffering & Growth
"When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful."
-Barbara Bloom
"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amidst joy."
-Felicia Hemans
To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution.
-Jo Coudert
"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
"Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts
– it’s what you do with what you have left."
-Hubert Humphrey
You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
At any given moment you have the power to say
this is NOT how the story is going to end.
“Not everything is supposed to become something beautiful and long-lasting. Sometimes people come into your life to show you what is right and what is wrong, to show you who you can be, to teach you to love yourself, to make you feel better for a little while, or to just be someone to walk with at night and spill your life to. Not everyone is going to stay forever, and we still have to keep on going and thank them for what they’ve given us.” ~Emery Allen
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
― Terry Goodkind
“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon
“You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.”
― Mary Tyler Moore
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
“You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you look. Dance as though EVERYBODY is watching. March to the beat of your own drummer. And stubbornly refuse to fit in.”
― Mandy Hale
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
― Seneca
“Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of error, and every adversity will only hide, for a time, your path to peace and fulfillment. ”
― Og Mandino
“The roughest roads often lead to the top.”
― Christina Aguilera
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
― Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven
“You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”
― Edwin Louis Cole
“You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
― Helen Keller
"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.""Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
Crisis
"Crises of every kind will find us … [But] these crises enter our lives not just as challenges to us to retain our balance and stability, but as invitations to stretch our hearts and minds … [Every crisis] includes within [itself] an invitation for us to move from being good people to becoming great people."
— Ronald Rohlheiser
Difficult Situations
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
With challenge comes change.
Procrastination
“When faced with two equally tough choices, most people choose the third choice: to not choose. ”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Title is Invisible
Cancer
"Cancer didn't bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet."
~Michael Douglas
"Cancer is a journey, but you walk the road alone.
There are many places to stop along the way and get nourishment
– you just have to be willing to take it."
-Emily Hollenberg
Time is shortening.
But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive
is a victory for me.
-Ingrid Bergman
Cancer is not a death sentence,
but rather it is a life sentence;
it pushes one to live.
-Marcia Smith
You never know how strong you are until
being strong is the only choice you have.
-Cayla Mills
Health Psychology
"As a physician, I am aware of how draining and threatening empathy for helpless, injured people can be. I know how hard it is to hold on to compassion when all of one's invested power and energy seems helpless against the tide of fate... As a patient, I felt more alone, more helpless, more terrified, and more enraged than I now believe I had to be."
- Judith Alexander Brice
"Men that look no further than outside think health an appurtenance unto life and quarrel with our condition of being sick,
But I who have looked at the innermost parts of man and known what tender filaments that fabric hangs on oft wonder that we are not always so,
And considering the thousand doors that lead to death do thank my God that I can die but once."
- Thomas Browne (Religio Medici, 1643)
"For many Americans, the meaning of disease is the mechanism that defines it; even in cancer, the meaning is often that we do not yet know the mechanism. To some, however, the meaning of cancer may transcend the mechanism and the ultimate ability of medicine to understand it. For such individuals the meaning of cancer may lie in the evils of capitalism, of unhindered technical progress, or perhaps in failures of individual will. We live sin a complex and fragmented world and create a variety of frameworks for our several ailments. But two key elements remain fundamental: one is faith in medicine's existing or potential insights, another, personal accountability. "
- Charles E. Rosenberg
"To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard."
- Franz Kafka
"Substance abuse is contagious. You get it from your friends." - unknown
"The decision to seek medical consultation is a request for interpretation... Patient and doctor together reconstruct the meaning of events in a shared mythopoesis... Once things falls in place; once experience and interpretation appear to coincide; once the patient has a coherent "explanation" which leaves him no longer feeling the victim of the inexplicable and the uncontrollable, the symptoms are , usually, exorcised."
- Leon Eisenberg
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
-Buddha
Mentorship/ Leadership
"Every student deserves to be treated as a potential genius."
- Anton Ehrenzweig
"In homes which cradle imminence there are strong tendencies
to build directly on personal strengths, talents, and aims
rather than to assume that there is a large specific body of knowledge
that everyone should experience."
-Victor Goertzel
"She was the one
who really gave me the courage
to take my freedom."
- Louise Nevelson
"We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth."
- Clark Moustakas
"Allow humans to be themselves
and celebrate that selfness.
Love the metaphoric mind
and respect the rational.
Nurture Motivation.
Consider any attempt
at communication appropriate.
Celebrate the whole person."
- Bob Samples
"My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can."
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
"One does not become a guru by accident."
- James Fenton
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
- Dr. Seuss
"If a man is to shed the light of the sun
upon other men,
he must first of all have it within himself."
- Romain Rolland
"One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
~ Albert Schweitzer
"One of things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people."
~ Dick Gregory
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
~ Winston Churchill
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
~ Mother Teresa
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
~ Albert Pine
"To the world, you may just be somebody. But to somebody, you may just might be the world."
~ Unknown
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote Websites:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/060616ourdeepestfeartheinvitation
- Anton Ehrenzweig
"In homes which cradle imminence there are strong tendencies
to build directly on personal strengths, talents, and aims
rather than to assume that there is a large specific body of knowledge
that everyone should experience."
-Victor Goertzel
"She was the one
who really gave me the courage
to take my freedom."
- Louise Nevelson
"We can help a person to be himself by our own willingness to steep ourselves temporarily in his world, in his private feelings and experiences. By our affirmation of the person as he is, we give him support and strength to take the next step in his own growth."
- Clark Moustakas
"Allow humans to be themselves
and celebrate that selfness.
Love the metaphoric mind
and respect the rational.
Nurture Motivation.
Consider any attempt
at communication appropriate.
Celebrate the whole person."
- Bob Samples
"My chief want in life is someone who shall make me do what I can."
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
"One does not become a guru by accident."
- James Fenton
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
- Dr. Seuss
"If a man is to shed the light of the sun
upon other men,
he must first of all have it within himself."
- Romain Rolland
"One thing I know; the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve."
~ Albert Schweitzer
"One of things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people."
~ Dick Gregory
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
~ Winston Churchill
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
~ Mother Teresa
"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
~ Albert Pine
"To the world, you may just be somebody. But to somebody, you may just might be the world."
~ Unknown
"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote Websites:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/060616ourdeepestfeartheinvitation
Friendship
“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder
" Money can be created always. But moments have to be made." - Bella M.
― Oprah Winfrey
“Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder
" Money can be created always. But moments have to be made." - Bella M.
Psychotherapy
I can't control the wind, but I can adjust the sail.
