more thoughts for today. . .

I just finally found a quotation worth replacing Mother Theresa up at the blog heading.  (Don't worry--Mother Theresa is still there, just moved to the bottom of the sidebar.) And it is a really good one for where I am right now!

Oh, and by the way, I am no longer depressed, but just tired, with a depressed immune system, and a little stressed still.  So I am still looking around me and purposefully being aware of Antidotes, and have some more to share.  : )  There's lots of good stuff going on in life, but which I don't have the brain power to write about at the moment.  So I'll just share some more of the good stuff said by folks with more wisdom and insight than I have at this moment--may they be fodder for my thoughts this week, and grow me. 

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Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.  ~Buddha


The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.  ~William James


When you feel dog tired at night, it may be because you've growled all day long.  ~Author Unknown


We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.  ~Elbert Hubbard


I am an optimist.  It does not seem too much use being anything else.  ~Winston Churchill


The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.  One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.  ~F. Scott Fitzgerald


Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.  ~Maurice Setter


The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.  ~Will Foley


A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.  ~Hugh Downs


People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860


Become a possibilitarian.  No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.  ~Norman Vincent Peale


Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.  ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966


An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.  An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.  ~G.K. Chesterton, "On Running After One's Hat," All Things Considered, 1908


There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.  ~Frederick Faber


more such good stuff found here.