Uplifting words of wisdom
Need some inspiration to keep or get going?
Check out these pearls of wisdom…
"Feelings are much like waves. We can’t stop them, but we can choose which ones to surf."
Jonathan Matthesson
"I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful, collecting these shards of spirituality, that we may be helping to bring about a healing."
Leonard Nimoy (Spock in Star Trek)
Here’s a bit of encouragement if life’s particularly difficult at the moment:
"No matter what happens, or how bad things seem today, life goes on, and it will be better tomorrow."
Anonymous
"Words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey."
Sarah Fielding
"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind."
Caroline Myss
"We grieve because we love. The intensity of grief often proclaims the depth of our love."
Gary Roe
Catherine Pulsifer is said to have made this insightful statement: "Faith is unseen but felt. Faith is strength when we feel we have none. Faith is hope when all seems lost."
"It’s not easy to remain bitter if one is busy with constructive things."
Nelson Mandela
"It’s what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."
Nelson Mandela
"What the world needs now is love, sweet love, that’s the only thing that there’s just too little of."
Burt Bacharach and Hal David
The late Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of US President Franklin D Roosevelt had this to say: "If you lose faith, you lose all."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched: they must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If a job’s worth doing, its worth doing well."
Laurence Pentecost
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln