For Inspiration...

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time".  ~Andre Gide

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how".  ~Friedrich Nietzsche 

Chance is always powerful, let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.  ~Ovid
 

Doubt, Expectations, Judgment

Who sets the standards you live by?

Are you continually struggling to accomplish what is expected of you? If so, stop to think for a moment: who holds those expectations?


Perhaps you’re trying to meet the expectations of a parent or a teacher or other authority figures who may be long gone from your life. But many of us toil under the critical eyes of a vague ‘somebody’ who always judges that we’ve never done enough or done things well enough. Who is this phantom judge? And do we need to care about what they think any longer?


We find both our own power and happiness when we begin to set our own standards around what has heart and meaning for us.


“Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.”
-- Nancy Lopez

Via: Higher Awareness

On Persistence and Personal Strength

"Strength does not come from winning
Your struggles develop your strength.
When you go through hardship
and decide not to surrender,
that is strength."

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow." - Ronald E. Osborn

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not by strength but by perseverance." H. Jackson Brown

Psych Central World of Psychology Wonders About, if There is Such a Thing, a Good Side to Depression?

10 Possibly Good Things About Having Depression by Therese J. Borchard... A snip from  her actually quite playful list of what she considers the silver lining side of things.  I like the idea because it is absurd...I mean, who dare ask such a bold question?


Reason #9. I have fascinating conversations with strangers.
Here’s how the majority of my first conversations/introductions go with people who I sit next to on the plane, train, or at my son’s soccer games:
“So what do you do?”
“I write a mental health blog.”
“Oh. That’s interesting. How did you get into that?”
“I had a major nervous breakdown and wanted to kill myself for about two years. So one day I told God that if I ever woke up and wanted to be alive that I would dedicate the rest of my life to helping people who are trapped in the Black Hole.
That morning came.
And you, what do you do?”

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.” M.A. Radmacher

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence...Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller

The Greatest Things Ever Done on Earth Have Been Done Little by Little.- William Jennings Bryan

This video is a great example of the wonder and power of the inspired human spirit. Please take 6 minutes and be transformed...

A great accapella cover and tribute of the song, "Africa" by ToTo performed by a European choir called Perpetuum Jazzile...