Thoughts For Today

My thoughts for the day.......most of them stolen from others.....

"The Lord is a good psychologist: he knows the way our minds run. Turmoil can be the Lord's way of tapping us on the shoulder and saying, 'Don't forget me.'"-- Eknath Easwaran

"It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal." Eknath Easwaran

"Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it." Eknath Easwaran

"Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose." Eknath Easwaran

“The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.” -Abraham Lincoln

"Someone was hurt before you.....beaten before you; humiliated before you; raped before you; yet someone survived." by Maya Angelou

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." by Maya Angelou

"Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style." by Maya Angelou

"Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable." by Maya Angelou

"If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded." by Maya Angelou

"Alone, all aloneNobody, but nobodyCan make it out here alone." by Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." by Maya Angelou

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." by Maya Angelou

"Nothing will work unless you do." by Maya Angelou

"The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach." by Maya Angelou

"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." by Maya Angelou