I’ve crashed many times while blasting down the road of life. The car is in one piece now and I’ve learned to throttle back some. And when I hear the following words of wisdom, I KNOW it’s the truth:
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?”Holding onto resentment is like drinking poison and expecting it to kill someone else.” – Matt Baldwin, Snow Rising (thanks, Cheryl Snapp Conner, for pointing this one out.
“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 curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” – Carl Rogers
“The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.” – Warren Bennis
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.” – Marian Wright Edelman
“Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.” – Edith Hamilton
“Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.” – Mary McLeod Bethune
“Hate is a disease. It is fear’s messenger and it makes us do terrible things in a shadow of our better selves, of what we could be.” – Colin Farrell
“The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief.” – William Shakespeare
“Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear.” – Cheri Huber
“Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.” – Swedish proverb
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Louisa May Alcott
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee/And I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.” – Robert Frost
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” – John F. Kennedy
“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I’m keeping a chart.” – Hillary Rodham Clinton
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake
“A grateful heart doesn’t eat.” — Over-eaters Anonymous saying.
“Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn’t mean the circus has left town.” — George Carlin
“when you can’t climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home…”
— Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star)
“What’s worse? Being strung out or being fat?” — Nikki Sixx (The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star) 
“When You’ve lost it all….thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.”
— Nikki Sixx
“If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.” -AA saying
“I spent a lifetime in hell and it only took me twelve steps to get to heaven.” -AA saying
“Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness” -Richard Carlson
| “Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.” | |
| – Bill Clinton“My friend…care for your psyche…know thyself, for once we know ourselves, we may learn how to care for ourselves” – Socrates
“The main symptom of a psychiatric case is that the person is perfectly unaware that he is a psychiatric case.” – Oleg P. Shchepin in the New York Times, Nov 1988. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding about ourselves.” – Carl Jung |
One of my favorite quotes from the Tao Te Ching.
“He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”
– Lao Tzu
You are well on your way to recovery.
The Swedish proverb about worry really stuck with me, as I recently heard the sentiment that “worry is negative prayer.” Not sure where I heard it, but I dug it.