Helpful Thoughts or Quotes

[snoringdog]

"I am but one among billions, but still, I am one..."

[snoringdog]

Final passage from the novel Middlemarch by George Eliot -

"But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."

Good for when I'm thinking I'm not good enough, or when comparing self to others and going negative....

[snoringdog]

To fight against anxieties -

"If it's not happening NOW, it's not happening...."

"Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day...."

[snoringdog]

Kurt Vonnegut -

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

[snoringdog]

Another by Vonnegut-

“We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”

[Heatherwantspeace]

"Nobody can use against me what I freely admit about myself"
I don't have anyone to attribute it to, read it in my (internet) wanderings!
Heather
ps Kurt Vonnegut "that is also a nice way for human beings to look" (or something to that effect)

[snoringdog]

Have you ever held a bird in your hand?

So Fragile
So Beautiful

So Determined to Live....

[snoringdog]

I am at the mercy of a rude stream,
Being buffeted among the rocks.....
May my breathing be an anchor.

[snoringdog]

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. - John Milton

[snoringdog]

....Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody’s cloud.....
Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Maya Angelou