Learning How to Go with the Flow
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
~anon
Sometimes it seems to me that I do things with the best of intentions, with the utmost planning to details, but then get easily thrown off track when anything slightly goes not according to plan. I am starting to understand that a certain flexibility is [...]
Flexibility in Decision-Making
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
~Joseph Campbell
I’ve been struggling with some things lately, mostly health-related, that have left me feeling very sorry for myself and thrown off track. Really getting into feeling pathetic and sorry for myself. I [...]
On Charity
“Charity is the bone shared with the dog when you are just as hungry as the dog.”
~Jack London
I love this quote. Over the years I have used it as a reminder to myself when I don’t want to give or share my meager resources, because most of the time I have been pressed for money [...]
Hope
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn’t permanent.
~Jean Kerr
I saw this quote today and thought it was so apropos to how I’m feeling these days. Sometimes it is easy to get caught up and bogged down by all the realities of day-to-day living…in these stressful times that too often means [...]
Hope In the Blue Sky
The blue of the sky always gets me…it’s so open and welcoming; such an expression of hope. It makes me feel uplifted especially when I am feeling down. I look up, and the blue washes into me. Instant attitude adjustment.
Today’s quote:
What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had [...]
