Motivational sayings and/or affirmations.

“A difficult situation can be handled in two ways:
We can either do something to change it or face it.
If we can do something, then why worry and get upset over it – just change it.
If there is nothing we can do, again, why worry and get upset over it?
Things will not get better with anger and worry.”
~ Shantideva​
 
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence
by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~​
 
"Everyone has inside him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't yet realise how great you can be!
How much you can accomplish!
And what your potential is!"
~ Anne Frank​
 
"Every day you sit back
and wait for something to happen
is another day lost."
~ Jennifer Flavin​
 
“To be nobody but yourself –
in a world which is doing its best,
night and day,
to make you everybody else –
means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight;
and never stop fighting.”
Be yourself.
You are unique!​
 
My husband turned 60 today & this one is for him really.
We have been together for 38 years & are still very much in love, xo Cate​

"Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.""
~Erich Fromm:​
 

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once,
finds it much easier to do it a second and third time,
till at length it becomes habitual."
~Thomas Jefferson.
​
 
"The greatest weapon against stress
is our ability to choose one thought over another"
~William James.
​
 
This is one that resonates with me, I heard it a long time ago, but never followed through. I am determined now though.

"People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do"
 
“Success is not final,
failure is not fatal:
it is the courage to continue that counts.”

~Winston Churchill ~
(British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)​
 
"Don't wait until everything is just right.
It will never be perfect.
There will always be challenges, obstacles
and less than perfect conditions.
So what?
Get started now.
With each step you take,
you will grow stronger and stronger,
more and more skilled,
more and more self-confident
and more and more successful."
~Mark Victor Hansen.
​
 
""You have brains in your head,
You have feet in your shoes,
You can steer yourself,
Any direction you choose"
~Dr Seuss.
Simple, funny but true.
You are in control of your destiny.​
 
“Doing the best at this moment
puts you in the best place for the next moment.”​
 
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.” Viktor Frankl

Think about this next time you are tempted to eat a piece of food your body doesn't need. You do have a "little space" in which to think and to choose. Look for the little spaces in your life and use them wisely!
 
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There are some fantastic sayings in this thread everybody. I really need to make more use of them. Here is a quote I found on someones blog, which I thought was well put:
"If there is one thing I have learned so far though, its that if you push through the worst of times, you get an oppurtunity to see things become better. If you don't hold on, you end up in the same miserable place you were in before."
 
"Take the first step in faith.
You don't have to see the whole staircase,
just take the first step."
~Martin Luther King, Jr.​
 
Here's a suggestion for bookworms. Run to your nearest Dymocks and order in a copy of this book "The Boy who Harnessed the Wind", by William Kamkwamba (and a co-author I forget). If your partner/husband is a tinkerer around with "stuff" he'll probably love it too - mine read the second half along side me.

This book is new, published in September and now possible to get here. I'm donating mine to the school library now that I've read it.

If ever you want inspiration for overcoming adversity, but doing the impossible with few resources, and want to inspire yourself to do what you can, where you are, with what you have now, this is a "must read".

I sat and read the entire thing yesterday afternoon and evening (a rare thing for me these days!).
 
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