Do you have an inspiring or favorite quote to share?

When the world says, “Give up.” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” —Unknown

Two quotes that make a similar point:

The pain you’ve suffered in life can either be your prison or your platform to help others — it’s your choice.

We all have a story, we all have a past, and the difference between people who are effective and who are not is this: Will you use your story, or will your story use you?

This Mayo forum is all about helping people move through their pain, out of their prison and onto their platform to help the next person.

"Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can." - John Wesley

Hey, did anyone try at least going out in a thundering heavy downpour in tank top and flip flops, with the wallet wrapped in layers of plastic? It's really an out-of body experience. And rarely other people around, no one to wonder where's this lunatic's umbrella?

But that was in my sixties. In my eighties now I must come up with new ways, like dopamine booster one-minute cold
shower -- if you can last that long -- is a handy tool.

Life is a Long Lesson in Humility

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." His Holiness the Dalai Lama

"My heart needs only one freedom - the freedom to dream."

- Hindu saint

"If equal affection cannot be/Let the more loving one be me." W. H. Auden

in reply to @ricj Thank you for this. I focus on the good each day, actually say upon rising out of bed, "I got another day, many did not,"
I just wrote an article about Zebras on Medium, after learning that the radiologist who read my sinus CT scan failed to mention the bone loss near my left orbital region. AND while he pointed out a deviated septum on the left, it was actually on the right. I was sent to a ENT specialist as a result of chronic sinus infections, which had been attributed to being immune compromised; however, this pales in comparison to the brain MRI I will soon have, along with a referral to a neurosurgeon, "that eye pain is coming from your sinuses," the good PCP and neurologist opined. Not.
"Now it makes sense that the Nurtec for migraines has bit been working, " the neurologist recently messaged me...Yeah, right.

I have often been told I have too much humility, which can lead to a host of problems such as low self esteem, missed opptys, etc. I am working on it, believe me. However, being Canadian, I am a bit conservative and don't always do a good job at expressing my "true" feelings, thus my sense of privacy, even during times when I could really use some support. My mother had an especially, "stiff upper lip." Old habits die hard.