"What Thoughts Hold The Secret to Success?"
"Love is not only about knowing you love and care about a person so much that you know you'd be willing to do anything for them, but it's also about knowing how and being able to let go. And by doing so, allowing that person to be happy even if it's not with you and accepting the fact that to them, you're just not the one."
--- Copyright © 2003 Noha Kadhom
I think the message speaks for itself.
"Never let fear make strangers of those who should be lovers."
--- Copyright © 2004 Catherine Wade
So many of us shut ourselves off from love because of fear from further pain. Pain is only what we let it be, and fear is what we make it.
"There is enough in this world for a man's need. But there is never enough in any world for a man's greed."
--- Mahatma Gandhi --- Submitted by Sachin Stalin --- Goa, India
"Blessed are those who forget the disabilities of my body, and see the shape of my soul."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by A. Richardson --- Ontario, Canada
"Love is, initially, expecting the unexpected and accepting the unaccepted. Later it is expecting the unaccepted and accepting the unexpected."
--- Copyright © 2004 Himanshu Gaur
"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you."
--- Carl Sandburg
"Life can be so wonderful. You just have to believe it. It's all there for you on the plate. You just have take it and taste the flavor of life."
--- Copyright © 2004 Heather McDade
I continue to challenge my beliefs and not take all my assertions as facts. I only take those thoughts which help me in the end, because the pay off I get from it means everything. This is a thought that sprung to my mind when I was writing in my diary and I hope that people can benefit from it too.
"Every day's a holiday when you have your health."
--- Copyright © 2004 Phil Ryobi
"My biggest disappointment in life is that grown-ups were not as smart as I thought they'd be."
--- Copyright © 2001 Anne Aziz
"IF is a big word for only two letters."
--- Written in 2004 by J. Calabretta --- Ontario, Canada
For everyone that has said, "if only I did/didn't..."
"The distinction of grade levels and age does not define true maturity."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Spencer Bob --- Pennsylvania
I've come to understand this through the women I have met in my life, sanity and insanity inhabits women of all ages.
"Nothing changes if nothing changes."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by M. Brown --- Finland
"What do you do when you've done all that you can do, but all that you can do still can't undo what you've done?"
--- Copyright © 2004 Angula R. Fuhr
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
--- Pablo Picasso
"Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come into contact with year after year. Good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven."
--- Thomas Chalmers
"People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead."
--- James Baldwin --- Submitted by Emily R. --- Utah
"Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
--- Bernard M. Baruch
"How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened."
--- Thomas Jefferson
"The world seen through your eyes is your life. How you envision the world is how you envision your life. To let another see your world for you is to let them control who you are. But, to let another show you their world is to be open minded. To be blind to the world of others is to truly be alone."
--- Copyright © 2002 Casey Wilkinson
I finally opened my eyes and saw that I was so busy trying to see into other people's worlds that I almost lost track of the beauty that exists in my own.
"One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, what if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?"
--- Rachel Carson
"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individual. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity."
--- Marie Curie
"If you don't believe in yourself, don't expect anyone else to. If you don't trust yourself, don't expect anyone else to. If you can't reassure yourself, then don't expect anyone else to. Believe, trust, and reassure yourself."
--- Copyright © 2004 Sarah Stockwell
After missing my Olympic trial cuts 6 times... I realized I had no one to blame but myself. I realized that by not believing, trusting and reasuring myself, I only second guessed myself. All I did was set myself up for failure.
"In life there are no regrets, only learning experiences."
--- Author Unknown --- Submitted by Holly Blond --- Ontario, Canada
"Many of us live our lives as if we are captives of emotion. Thinking if we swim and fight we will make a difference, when the real difference lies in your strength. Peace creates aim. Aim creates happiness. If you cannot handle your situation where you are now, why would you want to move on?"
--- Copyright © 2004 Kelly Zullo
My thought: you should contact your best you.