Humor and Inspiration

Some of my personal favorites for your enjoyment .... recalled to the best of my ability!
Humor
Don’t tell me to relax! ... my tension is the only thing holding me together.

Some of the things that will linger longest in my memory ... never really happened.

You can get by on charm for about 15 minutes. After that, you’d better know something.

Remember, your To Do list is immortal. It will live on long after you are gone.
Joan Borysenko

Experience is being able to recognize your mistakes when you make them again.

Tell your dreams to no one, the Freudians may come to power.

How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?

We wouldn’t worry so much about what other people think of us if we realized how little they do.

Reflections on Life, Love, Forgiveness, and Happiness
Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.
Japanese Proverb

The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.
Pascal

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Kierkegaard

Nothing brings you peace but yourself.
Emerson

To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Lieh Tsu

A friend is someone who has come into your life when the world has gone out.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Being kind is more important than being right.

There are people who love you dearly, but just don’t know how to show it.

Learning to forgive takes practice.

It isn’t always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes you have to learn to forgive yourself.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring.
Thoreau
Inspiration for Change

If you are thinking of a journey of change and growth through psychotherapy or Emotional Brain Training ... I hope these words will inspire you
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Goethe

Have the courage of your confusions.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tse

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot

Change doesn’t happen all at once (unless you’re in the Witness Protection Program). Small steps will get you where you are going. And if you take honest steps .... you’ll go to places more extraordinary than you ever could have imagined.
Joan Borysenko

Sometimes all a person needs is a hand to hold and a heart to understand.


The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I marked the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost