Fear and courage are brothers.

~Proverb

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

-George Bernard Shaw

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.

~Ellen Glasgow

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Dr. Seuss

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value

Albert Einstein

Acceptance

One already wet does not feel the rain

-Turkish Proverb

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

-Stephen R. Covey

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the high road to pride, self esteem, and personal satisfaction.

-Brian Tracy

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears

- Arthur Koestler

Fortune favors the bold

-Virgil

To be rather than to seem

-motto of North Carolina

Courage is a kind of salvation

-Plato

He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment

-Confucius

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions

Confucius

The components of anxiety, stress, fear and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Wayne Dyer

Adversity is the foundation of virtue

-Japanese proverb

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything were a miracle.

-Albert Einstein

Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.

-Kenneth Hildebrand

He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment

-Meister Eckhart

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your habits or they will conquer you.

-Rob Gilbert

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom

-Marilyn Ferguson

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others

-Peace Pilgrim

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are

-John Pierpont Morgan

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

-Andrew Carnegie

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do.
There can be no courage unless you're scared

-Eddie Rickenbacker

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another

-Walter Elliott

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

-Ambrose Redmoon

Leap and the net will appear

-Zen saying

You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.

-Navajo Proverb

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

-Maya Angelou

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

Annie Dillard

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him

-James D. Miles

In fact, everything we encounter in this world with our six senses is an inkblot test.
You see what you are thinking and feeling, seldom what you are looking at.

-Shiqin

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

-Brendan Francis

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

- Peace Pilgrim

We need to dwarf our troubles and magnify our blessings.

-Neil, Humphrey B

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the life that is waiting for us.

– Joseph Campbell

Life shrinks and expands in proportion to one's courage

Anais Nin

Patience and fortitude conquer all things

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to fail

-Dorothy Brande

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings

-Eric Hoffer

For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

-Socrates

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

-Thomas Szasz

Talk doesn't cook rice

-Chinese proverb

We judge others by their behaviour. We judge ourselves by our intentions.

-Ian Percy

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance

-Gian Carlo Menotti

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

-Japanese proverb

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future

-Fulton Oursler

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

-Dr Wayne Dyer

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook

-William James

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

-Albert Einstein

Forget injuries, never forget kindness

-Confucius

knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day

-Zen proverb

Consider how hard it its to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others

-Jacob M. Braude

When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

-Zen proverb

The infinite is in the finite of every instant

-zen proverb

The obstacle is the path.

~Zen Proverb

Forever is composed of nows.

-Emily Dickinson

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

-Mahatma Gandhi

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

-Norman Cousins

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow

-Albert Einstein

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity

-Edward Weeks

For peace of mind, resign as general manager of the universe

-author unkown

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it a someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

-Buddha

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it is thinking of yourself less

-Rick Warren

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.

-Neal A. Maxwell

Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An angry man is again angry with himself, when he returns to reason.

-Publilius Syrus

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason

-Francis Bacon

Adversity precedes growth

-Rosemarie Rossetti

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.

-Kathleen Casey Theisen

I need neither future nor past, but to learn to take today not too fast.

-Jeb Dickerson

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself

-Albert Einstein

It's not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Hans Selye

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

-Clare Boothe Luce

The unexamined life is not worth living

-Socrates

To learn about other people is science,
to learn to know yourself is intelligence.

-Chinese proverb

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

When you lose, don't lose the lesson

-unknown

I've learned that people will forget what you said,

people will forget what you did,

but people will never forget how you made them feel

-Maya Angelou

Music is the shorthand of emotion

-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Water and words... Easy to pour, impossible to recover.

-Chinese proverb

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

~Henri Louis Bergson

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

-Aristotle

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

-Winston Churchill

The best way out is always through.

-Robert Frost

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

-Dorothy Thompson

If your problem has a solution then...why worry about it? If your problem doesn’t have a solution then...why worry about it?

-Chinese proverb

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.

~Lloyd Douglas

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will.

-Jawaharal Nehru

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday; so live in the now!

Happiness needs sadness.
Success needs failure.
Benevolence needs evil.
Love needs hatred.
Victory needs defeat.
Pleasure needs pain.

You must experience and accept the extremes. Because if the contrast is lost, you lose appreciation; and when you lose appreciation, you lose the value of everything.

- Philippos

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
-- Thomas L. Holdcroft

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

- Friedrich Nietzche

As we grow up, we learn that even the one person that wasn't supposed to ever let us down, probably will. You'll have your heart broken and you'll break others' hearts. You'll fight with your best friend or maybe even fall in love with them, and you'll cry because time is flying by. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, forgive freely, and love like you've never been hurt. Life comes with no guarantees, no time outs, no second chances. you just have to live life to the fullest, tell someone what they mean to you and tell someone off, speak out, dance in the pouring rain, hold someone's hand, comfort a friend, fall asleep watching the sun come up, stay up late, be a flirt, and smile until your face hurts. Don't be afraid to take chances or fall in love and most of all, live in the moment because every second you spend angry or upset is a second of happiness you can never get back.

- Unknown

Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them.

- Lou Holtz

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

-Winston Churchill

Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.

Zen Saying

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

~Attributed to both Jim Goodwin and Sydney J. Harris

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

-Anonymous

Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian

-Shari R. Barr

The world is ruled by letting things take their course

-Lao-Tzu

What you are shouts so loudly in my ears I can not hear what you say

-Emerson

Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.

Corita Kent

Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm

-Anonymous

The future is always beginning now.

Mark Strand - from 'Reasons for Moving'

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Brena Ueland

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

-William A. Ward

"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you"

Rashi

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid"

Basil King

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Dr. Wayne Dyer

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least"

Goethe

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln



"The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses."
- Danish Proverb

"You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger"

Buddha

The best and most important reminder for Feb 9

There are two days in every week we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.

Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed. Nor can we erase a single word we've said - yesterday is gone.

The other day we shouldn't worry about is tomorrow, with its possible adversities,
Its burdens, its large promise and poor performance.

Tomorrow is beyond our control.

Tomorrow's sun will rise either in splendour or behind a mask of clouds but it will rise. And until it does,we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.

This leaves only one day - today. Any person can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when we add the burdens of yesterday and tomorrow that we break down.

It is not the experience of today that drives people mad - it is the remorse of bitterness for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.

Let us, therefore, live one day at a time!

Author Unknown

"And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment"

"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe."

"conflict cannot survive without your participation"

Dr. Wayne Dyer


"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace"
-Buddha

"Ask yourself this question:

'Will this matter a year from now?' "

Richard Carlson, writing in Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

My first and favourite:

"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized"

Dr. Wayne Dyer