Attitude

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Dec 09

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 needed to get through life; to manage just living and following through on plans. Sometimes things happen that I have no control over, but that doesn’t mean I have to give up on what I originally was trying to do. It’s ok to take a different route to get there, to make things happen.

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16
Nov 09

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 had to remind myself that even the best-laid plans can be turned over in a heartbeat by things you can’t control. My life is a series of ever-changing plans. Sometimes this triggers me to feel powerless, as if I have no control over what happens to me. But this is not true. There is another quote I like, that goes something like ‘you can’t control which way the wind blows but you can direct the sails’ or something like that. This is what is true. I always have choices in what I do and how I respond to life challenges.

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22
Oct 09

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 myself. Truly though, when I have been helped by others in my own grueling times of need, it was often by people who didn’t have much. It is not easy to have a charitable heart when you are living lean yourself. This is true.

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28
Aug 09

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 lots and lots of negativity. But the bad feelings pass, you just have to have hope.

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Aug 09

Hope In the Blue Sky

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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 to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had to teach the despairing men, that it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
~Viktor Frankel

What do you think? What does life expect from you?