If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished. One thing you can’t recycle is wasted time. Failure is no accident
“I am willing to move out of my comfort zone and experience life in a new way.” – Louise L. Hay
“Vulnerability is power. You have to find the courage to take action or be consumed by pain ~ to take positive steps forward against insurmountable obstacles and crippling self-doubt” Libby Gill
There is no realization of dreams or purpose without difficulty, opposition, disappointment and failure.
History is not destiny. You have free will to overcome, grow, change, invent yourself. If you can dream of your future, you can believe in yourself now.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger
StoryThis is a story from one of the books I read (I don’t’ recall which one right now). The author is a Psychiatrist in private practice who related this story in his book.The Dr’s response was to spend the next 6 months telling her how beautiful she was, how much he appreciated the things she did, how she was a good wife and mother, and to praise her constantly. The Dr said “after you get divorced she will be completely miserable from not hearing that anymore!”
The man sat and stared quietly at the Dr. with a surprised look on his face. Their session was over a few moments later and he never came back for more counseling. Approximately 1 1/2 years later the Dr. saw this man in a restaurant with his wife (same wife). As the man and the Dr. passed each other in the hall the Dr. asked if he had gotten rid of his ****** wife (knowing he didn’t) and how was life going? The man responded, “My wife is a wonderful person and we are very happy together!”
Obviously he had taken the Dr’s advice and changed his treatment towards his wife, as well as his whole attitude towards the marriage. Just something to think about.
Get rid of the excuses. If you are going to do it, do it!
“Divorce is better than unhappiness. No parent should have an unhappy relationship as a role model. A home where love is absent is also no role model for a child” Larry Winget“You don’t marry someone you can live with, you marry someone you can’t live without” Laura Doyle
Goals set into motion a powerful psychological, spiritual, and emotional force. Things come to us. Things begin to happen. In setting goals, be patient and trust in God’s timing. Don’t take a goal off your list just because it hasn’t happened yet…sometimes it takes years. It just hasn’t happened yet.
Melodie Beattie
“Every spiritual advance is preceded by some kind of fall or seeming disaster” Dr. Wayne Dyer
The Rose
Bette Midler
Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed.
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need.
I say love, it is a flower, and you it’s only seed.
It’s the heart, afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance.
It’s the dream, afraid of waking, that never takes a chance.
It’s the one who won’t be taken, who cannot seem to give.
And the soul, afraid of dyin’, that never learns to live.
When the night has been too lonely, and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows,
Lies the seed, that with the sun’s love, in the spring becomes
the Rose.
As I was awakening this morning by one of my cats jumping on my bed to greet me, I lay there for a few moments petting her. As I watched her in total capitulation to me and enjoying the attention I was giving her, I reveled in how content and happy she was to have me stroking her. I thought “how could anyone turn on someone, human or animal, who is so loving, trusting and vulnerable to another?” But humans sometimes do ~ animals rarely.
When we give our hearts to another and our hearts are pure towards that person, the betrayal can be crushing to our soul. And once betrayed by those we love and trust we are changed forever and so is the course of our life. Love is precious and should be treated with the reverence it deserves. To give our heart to another is the greatest of vulnerability and meaning. Should we fall out of love and need to walk away, it is essential that be done with dignity and compassion. It is completely unacceptable to destroy the heart of another for any reason.
Fortunately, the great majority of people are good and loving, but we are a selfish breed as well. Perhaps we should allow nature and animals to teach us more about altruism, pure love and loyalty.
