"I have accepted fear as part of life... specifically the fear of change. I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says turn back". ~ Erica Jong
"Don't base your decisions on the advice of people who don't have to deal with the results" --unknown
"Love lasts forever and can heal any wounds.
All one must do is accept it." --found on MySpace
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." - DMX, "Slippin"
"Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets."
--Clark Moustakas
"Do What You Can Where You Are With What You Have!"
-Lukey's Momma
"Yeah, I'm afraid, but I'm gonna do it anyway. That's what life is about. Being afraid, then doing it anyway." quote by ME:)
The Basic
Text tells us that the power that brought us to the
program is still with us and will continue to guide
us if we allow it.
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"....how much time I have spent fighting Gods grace...." - Suzanne T.
"Whatever you are willing to put up with, is exactly what you will have." –Anonymous
"We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what in the morning was true will in evening become a lie." -- C.G. Jung
"The animals of the world exist for their own reasons, They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women created for men."
--Alice Walker, African-American author
"Everytime I ran into trouble, I ultimately found that I was resisting change." BB pg. 541
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
--Mark Twain
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better."
- George Bird Evans, author
"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature." --Anne Frank, child author during Holocaust.