Words to inspire (to laugh, to lose, to live)

peacehawk
peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
If you come across a quote that gets you to pause and think, or maybe change your thinking or motivate you to do something good for yourself, add it to this discussion. We can all use some motivation sometimes. Sometimes we need to be motivated to laugh, sometimes to change something to help us lose weight, or to live life more fully. Please share. The quote can even come from your own brain, or someone else's, just make sure to give credit where credit is due if possible.

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  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    "You grow up the day you have your first real laugh -- at yourself." -Ethel Barrymore
  • mary231
    mary231 Posts: 308 Member
    The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you're not willing to stay where you are
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    mary231 wrote: »
    The first step to getting anywhere is deciding you're not willing to stay where you are

    I love that! I needed that. Thanks :)
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    "Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air." -John Quincy Adams

    This journey we are on to change our lives for the better through maintaining our bodily temples better takes courage and perseverance. Each of us has this capability, even if we don't immediately see it within ourselves. Let us help each other find the courage to persevere through doughnut and fast food obstacles toward healthy, delicious living.

    Shalom,
    Have a Great and yummy day all!
    PeaceHawk
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    “Don’t wait for something
    big to occur. Start where
    you are, with what you
    have, and that will always
    lead you into something
    greater.”

    – Mary Manin Morrissey
  • mary231
    mary231 Posts: 308 Member
    Love that!
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
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    Inspiring thought for the day! :smiley:

    LOVE!
  • Never give up, there is no such thing as an ending only new beginnings
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    Thanx, I needed that.
  • WWnot
    WWnot Posts: 141 Member
    "Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful will do more, do it better and persevere in it longer, than the sad or sullen." Carlyle
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    " Asking deeper life questions
    opens up new ways of Being in
    the world...The real trick of life
    is not to be in the know, but to
    be in the mystery."

    Fred Alan Wolf
    from the book, What the Bleep
    Do We Know
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    " Researchers found that when
    people spent 15 minutes
    jotting down what they are
    grateful for in a journal before
    bedtime, they fell asleep faster
    and stayed asleep longer."

    from The Journal of Applied
    Psychology: Health and Well-being
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty, and your purpose when you are confused. -African saying
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    " Our doubts are traitors and
    make us lose the good we oft
    might win by fearing to
    attempt."

    William Shakespeare
  • WWnot
    WWnot Posts: 141 Member
    I found this quote from Confucius that makes me smile:
    "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."
    Perhaps i saw too many cartoons as a child...can see Toby Tortoise racing along and we know who won the race! Slow and steady; that's my plan. Actually, slow happens by itself. The conscious part is the steady.
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    <3
  • fitb440goal
    fitb440goal Posts: 81 Member
    It's not what you do between Christmas and New Year's that matters...
    It's what you do between New Year's and Christmas.
    I need to remember this right now as the scale isn't moving much this time of year.
  • WWnot
    WWnot Posts: 141 Member
    a good reminder for me too. thanks!
  • peacehawk
    peacehawk Posts: 421 Member
    Me too. Thanks.