Self Esteem & Positive Thinking Support Group

Wanted to share these wise words with each one of you fine individuals today ! From this month's Psychologies magazine, UK edition, was this little book called,'Wisdom-Lessons from successful lives'. Some of the words truly inspired this fibromite Brit lady so just wanted to share some of these inspirational words with you all here as if you have found something good it is natural to want to share it- especially so with people whom you like !

"Arm yourself in advance against the setbacks every life contains. Scan your whole life and list 100 good things: compliments, achievements major and minor. It doesn't matter if they are things no one else would see as important; They are the things that matter to you. If you meet an obstacle, sit down, take a breath, and read your list. Two things happen. Instantly, you feel better; and the problem, now set in the context of your whole life seems smaller."

- Hilary Mantel, author.

"Change is the most important thing. The more you do it, the more it works for you and the more empowering it is. There's a comfort zone when everything's known and it the same old thing with the same old people, but that can put you to sleep after a while. Stepping off into the void is a thrilling feeling because your fully alive again."- David Gray, musician.

" It hard when you're in the middle of something bad to understand that things are going to be OK. But just knowing that some day it's going to be behind you can give you strength. It's OK to have different chapters in your life. And it doesn't make you a bad person if things don't work out the way you'd hoped."

- Ditta Von Teese, burlesque performer

" I used to be a great forward planner, but last year I developed heart failure and suddenly realised I might not have much more of a future to plan. Once I'd got over the initial shock of it all and started to feel better, I decided I was going to live for today from then on - which is not to say I don't still sometimes agonise over the future. But no one knows how long they've got, so, whatever you want to do in life you might as well as just go for it."

- Jacqueline Wilson, bestselling children's author.

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Giant gentle hugs, Clarita

Thank you for sharing these wonderful quotes with us Clarita.

xoxoxo

JuJuZ

Thank You My Friend across the Pond, Clarita

You've turned my head in the right direction yet again! What would I do without your friendship? I shudder to think of it!

Sparkly Bright Angel Hugs'

Sonni

Sonni and JuJuZ you are both most welcome ! Thank you for your fantastic friendship to me, too! May you both be mightily blessed this weekend.

Angel hugs to you both, love, Clarita xx

Beautiful! Have a great weekend - Jeni

There truly is a lot of love and supportive energy in this group. What a wonderful place to be.

xoxoxo

JuJuZ

Some more groovy words for you all

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." – Nathaniel Hawthorne

"If you focus on the possible when you experience difficult situations, you can positively change your outlook, reduce your stress, and concentrate on achieving things that otherwise may not have been possible." - Catherine Pulsifer

"When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb." - Denis Waitley

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it." -Confucius

"Act as if you were already happy and that will tend to make you happy." -Dale Carnegie

"There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces -- and success instead of eluding him flows toward him." -Norman Vincent Peale

Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events

without becoming a tragic figure.

E. T. “Cy” Eberhart

Shared laughter is like throwing open the shutters

in a gloomy room and letting in fresh air and sunshine.

Lila Green

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow - Melody Beattie

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. - James Allen

Lovely!

Thank you Clarita, i am sending these to my daughter in college. She seems to be struggling with her course work, pre-med is no easy task. But then again, if it were easy, everyone would do it.

xoxoxox

JuJuZ

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it;

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In the end, nothing we do or say in this lifetime will matter

as much as the way we have loved one another.

~Daphne Rose Kingman

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Stop leaving and you will arrive.

Stop searching and you will see.

Stop running away and you will be found.

~Lao Tzu

If I accept the sunshine

and warmth,

then I must also accept

the thunder and lightning.

-Kahlil Gibran

Joy is the flip side of sorrow is the flip side of joy

Find a place (inside) where there's joy,

and the joy will burn out the pain.

~Joseph Campbell

Nothing is so strong as gentleness

and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

~Ralph W. Sockman

Opportunities

to find deeper powers

within ourselves

come when life

seems most challenging.

~Joseph Campbell

To overcome difficulties

is to experience the full delight of existence.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

The most authentic thing about us

Is our capacity to create, to overcome,

To endure, to transform, to love,

And to be greater than our suffering.

~Ben Okri

May the stars carry your sadness away,

May the flowers fill your heart with beauty,

May hope forever wipe away your tears,

And, above all, may silence make you strong.

~Chief Dan George

Lastly, 3 Celtic Blessing For You

May those who love us, love us.

And those who don't love us,

May God turn their hearts;

And if He doesn't turn their hearts,

May He turn their ankles,

So we will know them by their limping.

Circle me, Lord.

Keep protection near

And danger afar.

Circle me, Lord

Keep hope within.

Keep doubt without.

Circle me, Lord.

Keep light near

And darkness afar.

Circle me, Lord.

Keep peace within.

Keep evil out.

david adam

Deep peace of the running wave to you.

Deep peace of the flowing air to you.

Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.

Deep peace of the shining stars to you.

Deep peace of the infinite peace to you.

adapted from - ancient gaelic runes

Warmest wishes, love, Clarita xx