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[~*chelsea*~]

the only one i can think of at the moment is:
"although the world is filled with suffering, it is also filled with overcoming it." - helen keller

Edited by ~*chelsea*~, 31 August 2008 - 11:25 PM.

[Timeless]

"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatsoever state I may be in, therein to be content."
-Hellen Keller

"In the process of defining myself, I have a tendency to set up rules and boundaries and then forget that rules are made to be broken, as are boundaries to be expanded and crossed."
-Kathleen Casey Theisen

Edited by Timeless, 01 June 2008 - 02:25 PM.

[Timeless]

"However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole."

-Muriel Rukeyser

[AWhisperofTruth]

Most of my favorites have already been posted. Here are some others, though.


"Sorrow comes in great waves. . .but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain."
- Henry James

"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 which you think you cannot do."
-Anonymous

"Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You have a choice, and the choice can be power."
-Blaine Lee

[athenaxena]

There's only now
There's only here
Give in to love
Or live in fear
No other road
No other way
No day but today
-Rent, written by Jonathan Larson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams -Eleanor Roosevelt

Everybody sails alone
But we can travel side by side
Even if you fail
You know that no one really minds
-Heal Over by KT Tunstall

This is a great thread... I'll come back because I know I have more but this is all I can think of at the moment.

[Katia60]

"I know now that every time I accept my past and respect where I am in the present, I'm giving myself a future."
-a quote from 'The Courage to Heal'

[janey7]

i think this one sums up the healing process-

"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and win a little more later"- Louis L'Amour

[~*chelsea*~]

"a man/woman who won't stand for something will fall for anything." - usher raymond

[denuseri]

mainly here in the south: "girl up my sistas"

[~*chelsea*~]

"the greatest healing therapy is friendship and love" - hubert h. humphrey

[sunshinegirl]

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
-Maya Angelou

[~*chelsea*~]

"a man who has hope has everything". - anonymous

[Bennett]

"Thou shall not be a victim. Thou shall not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shall not be a bystander."

The Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

I LOVE this quote...it is very inspiring to me.

[momstaxi]

A person is as happy as he/she makes their mind up to be. Abraham Lincoln

[John]