Bright Side Words to Live By

A place to collect healthy, positive thoughts for days when I can't come up with any on my own.

[Apologies that I have stolen just about everything on this page. Thank you!!]

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Keep Calm and Carry On

[thank you, egg!]

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finish each day and be done

with it. you have done what you
could. some blunders and
absurdities have crept in;
forget them as soon as you can.
tomorrow is a new day. you shall
begin it serenely and with too
high a spirit to be encumbered
with your old nonsense.
- emerson
[thank you, valentina!]
 
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Help me to see this differently.
[thank you, jenilyn at PDtM!]
 
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meditation:
Healthy am I
Happy am I
Holy am I
[thank you, jenilyn at PDtM!]
  
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zen mantra:
Nowhere to go
No one to be
Nothing to do
[thank you, jenilyn at PDtM!]
   

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You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make. … It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
- Eckhart Tolle
[thank you, my so-called (ttc) life!]

   

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Things turn out best for people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
 - John Wooden

   

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Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. 
- Earl Nightingale
[thank you, jess!]

   

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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
- Gilda Radner
[thank you, jess!]

   

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...and I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?

- from the movie Castaway
  
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

- E.M. Forster

[thank you, brandi!]

  

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Have no fear for what tomorrow may bring,
The same loving God who cares for you today
Will take care of you tomorrow and everyday.
God will either shield you from suffering or
give you unfailing strength to bear it.
Be at peace, then, and put aside all
Anxious thoughts and imaginations.

- Prayer of St. Francis de Sales

[Read at the funeral service for my uncle, hung on my aunt's fridge for daily strength]

  

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God hath not promised skies always blue

Flower strewn pathways, all our lives through;

God hath not promised sun without rain,

Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.

But God hath promised strength for the day,

Rest for the labour, light for the way,

Grace for the trials, help from above,

Unfailing kindness, undying love.

- Annie Johnson Flint

[Read at the funeral services for my uncle, from my grandmother's mass card] 

  

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May today there be peace within. May you trust that you are 

exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith in yourself and others. May you use the gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content with yourself just the way you are. Let this knowledge settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.  

  

[thank you, heidi!]