THOUGHTS TO INSPIRE WELL-BEING


There are moments when we need comforting. We seek encouraging words from ancient voices. We want to be uplifted with truth and love, passion and inspiration. We reach for light during times of darkness. So we bathe in a gentle wash of words that sooth the restless soul.

We look for new paths of Being.

Marcus Aurelius; philosopher, AD 121-180
"Press on steadily, keep to the straight road in your thinking and doing, and your days will flow on ever smoothly.
Dig within. There lies the well spring of good: Ever dig, and it will ever flow."

Goethe; writer, soothsayer, philosopher
"If it is the greatest and highest that you seek, the plant can direct you. Strive to become through your will what, without will, it is."

Erma Bombeck; "patron saint" and writer for regular folk
"If I had my life to live over I would have talked less and listened more.
I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained and the sofa faded.
I would have eaten the popcorn in the "GOOD" living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace.
I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a warm sunny day just because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.
I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
I would have sat on the lawn with my children and not worried about grass stains.
I would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life.
I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.
I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.
Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment realizing that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now go get washed up for dinner."
There would have been more "I love yous" ...more
"I'm sorrys" but mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute.....look at it and really see it ... live it ... and never give it back."

Rumi; Persian Mystic, poet
"Do not grieve over any joy that has gone forever, for it will return to you in another form, know that for sure. Deep in our hearts the Light of Heaven is shining Upon a soundless Sea without a shore."

Thomas Vaughan; poet
"Within this fantastic circle stands a Lamp, and it typifies the Light of Nature. This is the Secret Candle of God, which He hath tinned in the elements: it burns and is not seen, for it shines in a dark place."

Fujiwara Letaka; 1158-1237, Japan
"To those who long only for cherry blossoms
How I'd like to point out the grass of spring
In the snow of a mountain village."

Pablo Naruda; poet, Chile
"…In you is the illusion of each day.

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