Someone is Thinking of You Today

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