Words for My Soul

“Put all excuses aside and remember this: YOU are capable.”
-Zig Ziglar (b. 1926), motivational author, speaker

“Take control of your destiny. Believe in yourself. Ignore those who try to discourage you. Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits. Don’t give up and don’t give in.”
-Wanda Hope Carter; motivational speaker and writer

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.” — Paulo Coehlo

“Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.”
- Joan Walsh Anglund

“I have still the best comforts of life – books and friendships – and I trust never to lose my relish for either.”
- Mary Russell Mitford

“For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.”
-Donald Williams (b. 1942); astronaut

“Peace does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble, or hard work. Peace means to be in the midst of all those things and still be calm in your heart.”
-Author Unknown

“Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.”
-Orlando A. Battista

“Within sorrow is grace. When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.”
-Wayne Muller; author, therapist, minister