Quote of the Day

“They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that’s not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they’re just not such a big deal anymore.” John Girrach

“I think we all get a call of some kind at various points in our lives.

Maybe not a literal phone call, but a sort of suggestion or prompting that forces us to consider how far we’re willing to go to change things, or find the truth, or discover what we’re missing.”

Lisa Miller from the book The Awakened Mind

Arteriosclerosis is a hardening of the arteries. Psychosclerosis is a hardening of the attitudes, and it might be just as dangerous. Trevor Moawad from the book It Takes What It Takes.  

“Let go of your sorrow, there is always tomorrow…and after the rain, the sun will shine again.” Henny Gurko, Singer, songwriter, and Holocaust survivor

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”   Jesus of Nazareth

"I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source." Doris Day

“Listening to the siren song of more, we are deaf to the still small voice waiting in our soul to whisper, ‘You’re enough‘. Julia Cameron

“When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.“ Mary Oliver

“When we are buried in nonessentials, we lose track of what is truly significant.” Jay Shetty From the best selling book Think Like a Monk

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor Frankl