"the task ahead of you is never greater than the power behind you"
"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."
Martin Luther King
"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
Elie Weisel
"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese proverb
"Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes."
Francis Bacon
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."
Robert Schuller
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."
Epictetus
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."
Chinese proverb
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."
Nelson Mandela
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
Kenji Miyazawa
"We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of."
John H. Groberg
"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew."
Saint Francis de Sales
"A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl."
Stephan Hoeller
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
Helen Keller
"The greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being."
-Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
-Leo Buscaglia
"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
"You never forget who you really are... no matter how many nights you stay awake trying to,"
“If time heals all wounds, then why don't they make clock band-aids? "
"It's just when you want... no when you need people to be there for you They're not.. they're like a million miles away And when you think someone is totally reliable and trustworthy and you've built your whole life around them and then it turns out they were never that person."
”I wish I was as invisible as you make me feel”
"It is such a secret place, the land of tears." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Pain is your friend; it is your ally. Pain reminds you to finish the job and get the hell home. Pain tells you when you have been seriously wounded. And you know what the best thing about pain is? It tells you you're not dead yet!"
”There's so much I had to say I know the words I left behind
And now I'm caught in a daydream with nowhere to run and hide
The world rushes by me, it's leaving me here all alone” ~Alanis Morisette Rain
”If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim” -Jackson Brown, Jr.
I do not like my state of mind
I'm bitter, querulous, unkind.
I hate my legs, I hate my hands,
I do not yearn for lovelier lands.
I dread the dawn's recurrent light;
I hate to go to bed at night.
I snoot at simple, earnest folk.
I cannot take the gentlest joke.
I find no peace in paint or type.
My world is but a lot of tripe.
I'm disillusioned, empty-breasted.
For what I think, I'd be arrested.
I am not sick, I am not well.
My quondam dreams are shot to hell.
My soul is crushed, my spirit sore;
I do not like me any more.
I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse.
I ponder on the narrow house.
I shudder at the thought of men...
I'm due to fall in love again."
“Tears are for after; they just waste time before."
”I can make it through the rain, i can stand up once again”
”Strange how laughter looks like crying with no sound and how raindrops taste like tears without pain”
I've faith that there's a soul
whose leading me around
I wonder if she knows
which way is down...
-Ben Folds (Evaporated)
”Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?" --Mary Manin Morrissey
“In life you are going to make mistakes, you're going to fall down, but it's the getting up that counts. Just like in baseball: you'll get a few hits, but most likely, you'll strike out more than you'll get on base. But don't quit. Find your focus, relax, take a deep breath and give it a good swing" Dave Pelzer - A Man Called Dave
"I don't understand
And I look up and around me
As if my surroundings would tell me the answers
The wind whisper it in my ear
The stars twinkle it in morse code
I catch myself
Silly to think I could find any answers
Any reasons for what happens in this life
I don't understand "
"You can't go through life thinking someday people will let you down."- the wonder years
”im gonna make this
i will survive this”
”Last night I learned if things get bad, they'll always get worse.”
"It's so much easier to run than face all this pain here all alone." - linkin park
"Tonight I'll stand in the light so you can count how many tears fall from my eyes... This time I'll be alright, my heart can't get any worse" -The Starting Line
"I've never been so alone / And I've never been so alive"- Third Eye Blind, "Motorcycle Drive By"
Take these broken wings & learn 2 fly....})i({
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me. -- Dr. Seuss
"Love me when I least deserve it, because thats when I need it the most..."
"i think that headache after you cry is just to let you know your still alive"
"It's just when you want... no when you need people to be there for you They're not.. they're like a million miles away And when you think somoene is totally reliable and trustworthy and you've built your whole life around them and then it turns out they were never that person."
"It always seems just as soon as things are going good..just as soon as life takes a turn for the best...everything goes wrong...gets lost, confused and all messed up... and then you crash... and just have to sit there, cause you dont have the strength to get up"
"Stranger than your sympathy, take these things so I don't feel, I'm killin myself from the inside out, now my heads been filled with doubt. I wasn't all the things I tried to make believe I was, & I wouldn't be the one to kneel before the dreams I wanted, & all the talk & all the lies were all the empty things disguised as me, stranger than your sympathy"
"theres nothing left of me to be hurt anymore, i've been torn apart.."
"They cannot hurt you unless you let them"
Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact."- Stephan Jenkins (Chicago, 10-22-97)
"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials"
"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time. "
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better to take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. "
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
"Every problem has a gift for you in its hands."
"We cannot learn without pain."
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill
”Even the longest journey begins with the first step” --Chinese Proverb.
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light." -Taylor Benson
”What doesn't kill me makes me stronger” --Camus, Albert
”We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey” --Miyazawa Kenji
”Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want”
”Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.” -Agor, Weston H.
”When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look
Answered By: Gєnє - 4/19/2010 |