A Collection of Wise Sayings

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." -- Vincent Van Gogh

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"What we choose changes us.Who we love transforms us.How we create reshapes us.What we do remakes us."-- Dr. Eugene Callender

"What do we live for,if not to make life lessdifficult for each other?" -- George Eliotback to contentsOn Being in Touch with Our Inner Child

"There is an innocence within me that already knows how to trust my Higher Power, to cherish life while holding it lightly, to live fully and simply in the present moment. I will allow that part of myself to come forward and nourish me as I continue on this journey."(fromCourage to Change: One Day at a Time in Al-Anon II, page 82). Reprinted with permission of Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA

back to contentsOn Being in Touch with Our Higher Power

"There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word. Certainly there is a right for you that needs no choice on your part. Place yourself in the middle of the stream of power and wisdom which flows into your life. Then, without effort, you are impelled to truth and to perfect contentment." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have." --Unknown

Content: A Poem

I should be contentto look at a mountainfor what it isand not as a commenton my life--David Ignatow

back to contentsOn Worry

A thousand reasons for worry,A thousand reasons for anxietyOppress day after daythe fool,But not the wise man.-- Hitopadesa of Narayana

"Do your best. Then, don't worry, be happy."-- Meher Baba

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