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Mantras on the mirror
| Mon, 05-10-2010 - 9:17am |
Since I'm M'd and have not had a d-day, I can't be as public with the mantras as I like -- but last night I posted a new on on my bathroom mirror: "Happiness and Health are a CHOICE; not an accident." This keeps me focused on the fact that i am in control of my destiny and that the story of my life is for ME to tell, not a play or book that is being played for me as I passively sit back and watch.
What are your most powerful Mirror Mantras?
xo
Dee

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For me...I like:
Life is not lived looking backwards, its lived moving forward.
Of late, I've been gleening strength from this one:
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
MB- That's one of my faves. I repeat it all of the time.
Here are my "desk top" quotes for strength.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
NC/LC since January 28, 2010
http://secretlifeofjane.wordpress.com/
Jane, I love every single one of those. I'm copying them all to my quotes folder.
Dee, this is a great thread you started. Perhaps it should eventually be moved to the Healing Library.
MB
NC Since May 4, 2010
Hi Dee,
I've repeteadly tell my gal friends that happiness is a choice (i was ending my A at that time) but then in truth i am not happy.
I would like to add to this great thread
You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve would’ve happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the F— on.
-Tupac Amaru Shakur
and.....
At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?
and...
The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
LLL,
Well, blow me over with a feather! Tupac? I had no idea! Loving it that his quote is so powerful and true. I humbly regret my rap-snob attitude now. Thank you!
This is a wonderful post, LLL. I am going to print it out for my office's Wall of Wisdom.
thank you,
Dee
here are mine:
"When kicking the unworthy to the curb, kick correctly lest they bounce back to you."
-- HBI Member, Karen H.
"I believe in the ugly truth rather than a beautiful lie."
-- HBI Member, Cobiwan
"A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." - Gandhi
TU.
"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
— Maya Angelou
Hi Dee,
I just put this one on a note card and taped it on my computer at work:
Decide. Choose. Commit. Period.
It keeps me somehow in simple mode.
I also like the proverbial, "Silence is golden, silence is eloquent, silence is heard".....
LL (:
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