Someone is thinking of you today
and praying you will find strength and peace.
Dear You ~
I've wanted to write for days, but I've been afraid
to trust my thoughts to paper.
What encouragement or comfort would I be able to offer?
In moments when dreams seem shattered
and relationships appear broken,
what words of mine wouldn't wound you more,
or sound like advice,
or feel like salt being rubbed in a wound?
You know I have saved quotes since I was in my twenties,
and so I choose today to send you the thoughts of others;
thoughts that encouraged me in moments when I felt broken.
If even one encourages you or gives you hope,
cling to it until you no longer need it.
That day will come.
And please, always remember
that someone cares very deeply about you.
Actually, there are more of us
than perhaps you can see at the moment.
"God give me strength to accept a fact
though it slay me."
Thomas Huxley
"You are tougher than you think.
All the strength you'll ever need
to handle anything is within you now.
It was put there by your Creator,
who knew very well what you would be
up against in this life ~ and made you equal to it."
Norman Vincent Peale
"In the midst of winter
I finally learned
that there was in me
an invincible summer."
Albert Camus
"When I am low, oh God,
feed me on small pleasures...
sunsets, a small word of praise...
for frustration can be faced when I am fed."
Richard Wong
"We are slow to believe
what hurts when believed."
Ovid
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart,
and try to love the questions themselves,
like locked rooms, and like books that are written
in a very foreign tongue."
Ranier M. Rilke
"Acceptance is not submission;
it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation,
then deciding what you're going to do about it."
Kathleen Theisen
"When something intolerable is in my life,
I head for the water.
It leavens me in some way.
Some middlemost part of me
is soothed and silenced by it."
Alice Koller
"Life makes tremendous silent statements
where sand and saltwater meet."
Arthur Gordon
"In all my perplexities and distresses,
the Bible never failed
to give me light and strength."
Robert E. Lee
"God's word has always been the best source of advice for me."
Tony Dungy
"The only constant thing in life
is change."
Heraclitus
"Better is the end of a thing
than the beginning thereof."
Ecclesiastes 7:8
"But if anyone has caused grief, you ought rather to
forgive and comfort him,
lest perhaps such a one be swallowed up
with too much sorrow.
Therefore, I urge you to reaffirm your love to him."
II Corinthians 2:5~8
"You cannot always have happiness,
but you can always give happiness."
Unknown
"The hardship I was bearing today
was only a breath away
from the pleasures I would have tomorrow,
and those pleasures would be all the richer
because of this I was enduring."
Louis L'Amour
Love, Linda
