Do you have an inspiring or favorite quote to share?

Posted by Zebra @californiazebra, Jun 21, 2023

I'll start with three quotes from the very inspiring Helen Keller as noted in "Your Year of Healing" book by Amit Sood, MD:

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- they must be felt with the heart."

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

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frances007 | @frances007 | Apr 1 3:00am

Life is a Long Lesson in Humility

AZ | @equanimous | Apr 1 11:39am

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

samcal9977zz | @samcal9977zz | Apr 1 1:02pm

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

- Hindu saint

AZ | @equanimous | Apr 2 9:49am

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

frances007 | @frances007 | Apr 2 2:08pm

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.

frances007 | @frances007 | Apr 2 4:41pm

In reply to @frances007 "Life is a Long Lesson in Humility" + (show)

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.

frances007 | @frances007 | Apr 2 4:46pm

In reply to @frances007 "Yet fear is an important feeling isn't it? Have no fear but fear itself( E. Roosevelt)...." + (show)

For anyone who likes to read, I recommend a book.
"Becoming Bulletproof" by Evy Poumpouras, a former secret service agent who has written a book describing our ongoing needs to be aware of our surroundings and things of that nature. She does a great job addressing what she calls the three "F's," including fear and flight responses. Check it out. A must have for anyone these days, sadly

frances007 | @frances007 | Apr 2 11:41pm

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
*Thomas Merton
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The secret of life is in art
* Oscar Wilde
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
* George Bernard Shaw
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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
* William Butler Yeats
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
* Eleanor Roosevelt
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
* Confucius
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There are really only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way and not starting
*Buddha