- “Those with a grateful mindset tend to see the message in the mess. And even though life may knock them down, the grateful find reasons, if even small ones, to get up.” ― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
- “If all you are looking for is a miracle you are wide open to follow the antichrist and the false prophets because they are going to have a big league of signs and wonders ministry.If signs and wonders do not bring glory and honour to Jesus Christ, then you must be watching a false prophet whose anointing does not come from the Holy Spirit of God.” ― Patience Johnson
- “When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.” ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
- “Wanting makes the mind restless.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “I am the most important person to me. I am the most important person in the entire universe to me. I am the centre of my own universe.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.” ― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
- “A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life’s gas-pipe with a lighted candle.” ― P.G. Wodehouse, The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
- “Laughter has got to be the single healthiest activity one can perform. Just think how healthy you would be if you could sincerely laugh at that which now oppresses you.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “You can’t change your past. The only thing you can change is your perspective of your past!” ― Dr Jeffrey L Gurian, Healing Your Heart, By Changing Your Mind: A Spiritual And Humorous Approach To Achieving Happiness
- You are strong. You are beautiful. You are resilient. You are loved. You are capable. You are not weak. You are not defected. You are not weird. You are not a lost cause. You are not different. The Anxiety Man (@RealAnxietyMan on twitter.com)
- Suffering is an indication of ignorance, but in seeking an escape from suffering you are only nourishing ignorance. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.” ― Longus (Longos), Daphnis and Chloe : The Love Romances of Parthenius and other fragments
- “Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates–hence the deadly frost–the free power of the mind–the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more–the person is alone, like a baleful power–as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually–and in accordance with his own principle he is–misanthropic and misotheos.” ― Novalis, Philosophical Writings
- “At the present time, I long only to sleep and to remain silent. I am sick of humanity.” ― Albert Camus, Correspondence
- Frustrations come because we impose our illusions on reality. Osho
- “How was your day?’ ought to be ‘How did you look at your day?” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Wisdom cannot be bought from the walmart, it can only come from the Holy Spirit of God.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” ― John Keats, Letters of John Keats
- “When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you’ve just wandered off the path, that you’ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it’s time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don’t even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Night was close. Black trees towered over the dimly lit horizon like cloaked guardians. The winds rocked their crown and their heads tilted, like a nod, begging him over. He wanted to join them. Desperately. He longed for a friend as precious and pure. With the next gust of wind, their bodies seemed to grow, arching over the slumbering town, watching like a curious visitor. There was nobody outside, but some homes were still lit. A tiny speck of brightness that broke the trees’ black figures with an orange hue forming near the roots. The winds jerked and pulled, and for a moment, it looked like their roots were a prison. And that even comfort, nourishment, life itself, was worth escaping.” ― Mieke Leenders
- There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. Fred Rogers
- “The most incredible architectureIs the architecture of Self,which is ever changing, evolving, revolving and has unlimited beauty and light inside which radiates outwards for everyone to see and feel. With every in breatheyou are adding to your lifeand every out breathe you are releasing what is not contributing to your life.Every breathe is a re-birth.” ― Allan Rufus, The Master’s Sacred Knowledge
- “When the Self is freed from mind there are no limits to what one can experience.” ― Vivian Amis, I Am: The Key to Manifesting
- “I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.” ― Sylvia Plath, Ariel
- “When you are aligned with the truth of who you truly are, then you experience bliss.” ― Vivian Amis, I AM – The Key to Manifesting
- “NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECTMy words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect.So be-careful what you send out!” ― Allan Rufus, The Master’s Sacred Knowledge
- “When mind consumes a bad experience, it takes a lot of time to clean itself. Sometimes it starts creating more and more mess because it doesn’t know how to clean itself.Body is a self-cleaning organism. Even a dog’s body knows how to vomit out stuff. When mind starts creating mess, vacate it for some time and start living in the body.” ― Shunya
- Depression isn’t a disease; depression is a normal response to abnormal life experiences. Johann Hari (Lost Connections)
- “The typical image of a depressed, lazy and tired person is someone hunched over and inert. Often, the assumption is that if one had more enthusiasm and inspiration, he would then stand up straight and move. In many cases, this equation is backward. But, as with everything related to one’s physicality, balance is the key. An overly erect and rigid posture may convey confidence and power to some, but it also causes a subtle accumulation of tension and rigidity on various levels, including psychological and emotional.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “Sure we all need money but what do you really focus on? It is a matter of the heart. If your thoughts are on material and worldly things, no good fruits can come out of it.Seek the kingdom of God first and the other things shall be added unto you not vice versa.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder