“True compassion means not only feeling another’s pain but also being moved to help relieve it.” Daniel Goleman.
However dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel. Michael Malpurgo.
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Hal Borland
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” Og Mandino
For those that find Christmas a stressful time of the year, giving to others through volunteering can help to take you out of yourself, increase your self-esteem and boost your wellbeing. Go on. Give it a go.
Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
~John F. Kennedy
"With approx 60,000 thoughts a day (and the emotions they evoke) whirling through the mind, it is easy to understand how it can get cluttered, overwhelmed, and unfocused."
Mindfulness practice may help bring clarity and calm our minds.
‘It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
~Charles Darwin
Our actions flow from our emotions and our emotions are influenced by our thoughts. A common axiom is ‘I think therefore I am'; a CBT version is ‘I think; therefore I feel.'
Change your thoughts and you change your world - Norman Vincent Peale
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. “
- Anatole France
Being able to stop and be aware of the present moment is part of the definition of happiness. It is not possible to be happy in the future. This is not a matter of belief; this is a matter of experience.
“True friendship isn't about only being there for you when it's convenient, its about being there for you when it's not.”
Being able to stop and be aware of the present moment is part of the definition of happiness. It is not possible to be happy in the future. This is not a matter of belief; this is a matter of experience.
“Mindfulness is about being completely in touch with and aware of the present moment, as well as taking a non-evaluative and non-judgmental approach to your inner experience. It is essentially about being present and noticing what is around you.”
One of the most powerful behaviours of resilient people is their ability to let go of the past and lose some of the baggage that we invariably collect along the way.
“Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us our ultimate human freedom . . . the power to choose, to respond, to change.”
- Stephen Covey
