Thought for the Day

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt
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Thought for the Day

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit”

― E.E. Cummings
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Thought for the Day

“for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.”

― Sarah Dessen, Keeping the Moon
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Thought for the Day

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”

― Lao Tzu
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Thought for the Day

“Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.”

― Heath L. Buckmaster, Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale
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Thought for the Day

“I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”

― Maya Angelou
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Thought for the Day

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”

― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
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Thought for the day

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are”

― Kurt Cobain
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thought for the day

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”

― Mark Twain
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Thought for the Day

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

― Gautama Buddha
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Thought for the day

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

― Marilyn Monroe
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thought for the day

To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”

– E. E. Cummings
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CHANGING PATTERNS

We all have ways of doing things in our life. Over time, they become patterns. For example, my family knows that my morning pattern once I wake up begins with my going to the bathroom, filling up my water glass, if it is not already filled from the night before, then doing my morning spiritual ritual – five things I am grateful, what is inspiring me, what my intention is for the day and taking a few minutes to reflect on the thought for the day. We all have patterns in our life.

Sometimes others become so accustomed to our patterns that out patterns become important to them as well. Some of the patterns in our life have been a part of our life for a long time; others are newly formed.

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Thought for the Day

“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.”

 – Kristen Neff
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thought for the day

“Self-Acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship with myself.”

 – Nathaniel Branden
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Thought for the day

“It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine.”

– Byron Katie
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FILLING THE HOLE

This morning I was reading a devotional by Iyanla Vanzant about the holes in our life. She asked us to consider how or if we filled the holes. It got me thinking about all the holes I have experienced in my life and how you have helped me to climb out of them and then fill them with love and positive energy. It also got me thinking about all the lessons I have learned about myself in the process of climbing out of them.

One of the holes that I have been dealing with most recently was the hole that was created when I was five years old and had a traumatic experience while having blood drawn. I cannot remember how many times they tried to draw blood, but what I do remember was that with each failed attempt I became increasingly terrified, which made it even harder for them to draw the blood.

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Thought for the day

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

– Joseph Campbell
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Inspiritual Song of the Week

We all want to feel loved, so today know that you are loved. This is the theme for this week's song of the week. http://inspiritual.biz/inspiritual-song-of-the-week1/

Thought for the day

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

~ C. G. Jung
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