Share Your Favorite Quotes!

[leelee88]

I know when I am down, I try to look for all the Positives with this disease and some days it is very hard..The biggest thing I always say to myself is it could be worse.. I think that is what gets me by most days, even when I am in a big flare.
But I also love to read inspirational quotes..SO here are a few that I really liked.. I know we have shared some before.. But I thought maybe we could bring some back..


Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.


Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.


"Forget about all the reasons why something may not work. You only need to find one good reason why it will."


"Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible."


"When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place."


"Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down."


"A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't."


"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."


"Positive attitudes create a chain reaction of positive thoughts."

[Krisandra83]

Everything happens for a reason, even though at the moment, we might not always know, or understand why.

[SharonA]

"Slow and steady wins the race"...Something I apply to my life everyday.

[kuntrygurl78]

"When you hit rock bottom, you've got two ways to go - straight up or sideways" - Wynonna Judd

"Always blessings, never losses"

"What doesnt kill you makes you stronger"

[alleytally]

"When you're going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

"When you fall down 7 times, get back up 8 times"

"Everything will be ok in the end, because if its not ok, then its not the end"

"Nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight, you gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight." - Bruce Cockburn

:)

I like this thread!

[KarenAnne]

I don't know how uplifting this is, but it certainly decribes my feelings as an IC patient:

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. Abraham Lincoln

[Briza]

Better than a thousand useless words is one single word that gives peace...
The Dhammapada

He who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger...
Japanese Wisdom

If only I may grow firmer, simpler--quieter, warmer.
Dag Hammarksjold

[Briza]

You can't have everything...Where would you put it?
Ann Landers

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach, One can [should] collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

[dg2901]

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries.
Without them, humanity cannot survive. H.H. 14th Dalai Lama

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention. unknown

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself. Tolstoy

[Briza]

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
Some unknown cowboy...

[ICNDonna]

My kids got me a stone plaque that reads, "Now I've got it all together, I forgot where I put it." I also like "A cluttered desk is a sign of genius."

:) Warm hugs from a "genius"

Donna

[leelee88]

"Life is all in what you make it. You are in control of where your journey will lead you, and only "YOU" have the power to make yourself happy, It comes from within and when that is found the rest is easy. "

[mary124]

1."There is two sides to every story"

Many years ago, my co-workers gave me a plaque that says:
"a clean desk is a sign of a sick mind!" and you know, that even though I don't have this anymore, I keep that in mind. You should see my desk during the day. I think its clean just before I leave the office at night....