Cheerful/Inspirational Quotes?
Megan Garrison Jones
I have a friend that is in need of some cheering up. Every little thing
that could go wrong in someone's life is happening to her. I want to
cheer her up and make her smile. Please help me with some neat quotes
that will do just that..............inspire her to go on with her life
and to be happy.
MJ
Ian Becker
>MJ
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. Perhaps these will help:
Ian
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
-Vince Lombardi
"If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the
world will not raise your price."
-Unknown
"Use what talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no
birds sang there except those that sang best."
-Henry Van Dyke
"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are
always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are
right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires
some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its
victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things
that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the
events that occur."
-Vince Lombardi
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives
valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is
not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually
strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great
devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows
in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he
fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place
shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither
victory nor defeat."
-T. Roosevelt 4/23/1910
"Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word
from your vocabulary: impossible."
-H. Robert Schuller
"In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you
should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high."
-Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far
higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself."
-J. Hawes
"Success
To laugh often and much;
To win the respect of intelligent people
And the affection of children;
To earn the appreciation of honest critics
And endure the betrayal of false friends;
To appreciate beauty, to find the best in other;
To leave the world a bit better, whether
By a healthy child, a garden patch,
Or a redeemed social condition;
To know that even one life has
Breathed easier because you have lived,
This is to have succeeded."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
JR3000
In<51pn5o$6...@uwm.edu>
mjo...@alpha2.csd.uwm.edu (Megan Garrison Jones) wrote:
>I have a friend that is in need of some cheering up. Every little thing
>that could go wrong in someone's life is happening to her. I want to
>cheer her up and make her smile. Please help me with some neat quotes
>that will do just that..............inspire her to go on with her life
>and to be happy.
Sorry about your friend.
We all go through times like that....
As King Solomon said, when asked for
one saying that would best serve all times and all occasions:
"This too shall pass."
@A:Virgil (70-19 BC)
@Q: Possunt quia posse videntur.
@T: They can because they think they can.
@D: _The Aneid_, v
@%: Roman poet
People grow through experience,
if they meet life honestly and courageously.
This is how character is built.
-Eleanor Roosevelt, _My Day_ newspaper column, August 7, 1941
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Lean to labor and to wait.
-Henry W. Longfellow
BDMnet
I've got this quote that someone gave to me when I was severely depressed. I love it and have it hanging up on
my wall.
Under the sword lifted high
There is hell making you tremble;
But go ahead,
And you have the land of bliss.
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI
BDMnet
Chava Willig Levy
JR3000, my eyes nearly popped out of my head when I read in your posting:
As King Solomon said, when asked for
> one saying that would best serve all times and all occasions:
> "This too shall pass."
I have been searching for AGES for the source of that quote from/legend
about King Solomon, to no avail. (BTW, mine was linked to a tale about a
magic ring...)
If you - or anyone - can point me in the right direction, I'd be most
grateful.
Thanks,
Chava
William C Waterhouse
In article 4B...@mail.idt.net, Chava Willig Levy <prim...@mail.idt.net>
writes:
> JR3000, my eyes nearly popped out of my head when I read in your posting:
>
> As King Solomon said, when asked for
> > one saying that would best serve all times and all occasions:
> > "This too shall pass."
>
> I have been searching for AGES for the source of that quote from/legend
> about King Solomon, to no avail. (BTW, mine was linked to a tale about a
> magic ring...)
This is (for once) a Lincoln quotation that he actually said
(Address to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Sept 30, 1859):
"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to
invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should
be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They
presented him the words: `And this, too, shall pass away.'"
An older Bartlett's shows that the phrase itself occurs
earlier in Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables (1851).
William C. Waterhouse
Penn State
LTD
Long ago an Eastern monarch, plagued by many worries and harassed
on every side, called his wise men together. He asked them to
invent a motto, a few magic words that would help him in time of
trial or distress. It must be brief enough to be engraved on a
ring, he said, so that he could have it always before his eyes.
It must be appropriate to every situation, as useful in
prosperity as in adversity. It must be a motto wise and true and
endlessly enduring, words by which a man could be guided all his
life, in every circumstance, no matter what happened.
The wise men thought and thought, and finally came to the monarch
with their magic words. They were words for every change or
chance of fortune, declared the wise men...words to fit every
situation, good or bad...words to ease the heart and mind in
every circumstance. And the words they gave the monarch to
engrave on his ring were:
This, too, shall pass away.
Century after century, this old legend has survived. Whether or
not the motto was invented for a troubled monarch, no one really
knows--nor is it in the least important. But this much is
certain: The words are wise and true and endlessly enduring.
They have proved their power over and over again through the
centuries, to uncounted numbers of men and women, in every land
and every conceivable situation. They have given comfort to the
afflicted, courage to the frightened, hope to the worried and
distressed. This, too, shall pass away. Poets and philosophers
have stressed these five magic words over and over again, each in
his own fashion, but always with the same inspiring influence.
One day, about a hundred years ago, an American editor came
across the legend and was impressed by its ancient wisdom. He
was Paul Hamilton Hayne, distinguished also as a writer of light
lyric verse. He was so enchanted by the legend that he published
a brief story about it, and was at once astonished by the lively
interest it created. so he decided--as many had before, and many
have since--to write some verses about the famous phrase. By
some mysterious alchemy, his simple lines made an enormous appeal
to the public; and for years tattered copies of "This, Too, Shall
Pass Away," by Paul Hamilton Hayne, were carried around in purse
and pocket--the favorite inspirational poem of thousands of
people:
Art thou in misery, brother? Then I pray
Be comforted. Thy grief shall pass away.
Art thou elated? Ah, be not too gay;
Temper thy joy: this, too, shall pass away.
Art thou in danger? Still let reason sway,
And cling to hope: this, too, shall pass away.
Tempted art thou? In all thine anguish lay
One truth to heart: this, too, shall pass away.
Do rays of loftier glory round thee play?
Kinglike art thou? This, too, shall pass away!
Whatever thou art, wherever thy footsteps stray,
Heed these wise words: This, too, shall pass away.
Paul Hayne's poem won wide popularity in his own day; and it has
kept circulating ever since, continuing its influence on the
afflicted, the distraught, the discouraged. Every now and then
it makes a tour of the newspapers, or is featured in magazines.
Sometimes it appears with a different title, or with lines
changed to suit the times, or with verses added or subtracted.
Many other poets have used the same theme, before and since; and
occasionally a hodgepodge of verses from various sources is
collected and published as "anonymous" or "author unknown." But
the philosophy is always the same, and always helpful to the
troubled or despairing. This, too, shall pass away.
When Ray Stannard Baker was ill and in great pain, he remembered
the famous phrase and found it comforting. He wrote in his
notebook: "Nothing lasts--not even pain."
When Stevenson was suffering bodily torment, weakened and wearied
by the long struggle against tuberculosis, he kept reminding
himself of the famous phrase, hoping each morning would find him
better. It helped him to put his suffering out of his mind,
helped him to keep writing. "A chapter a day I mean to do," he
wrote to his friend William E. Henley--a man whose brand of
courage matched his own.
When Lincoln was forced to endure the hatred of millions because
of his steadfast loyalty to purpose and principles, when he was
bitterly reviled and condemned for refusing to consider an unjust
peace, he reminded himself that this, too, would pass in
time...and that with God's help he would weather the storm.
Countless other stories could be told of this inspiring phrase,
these five magic words which legend says were engraved by wise
men on a monarch's ring many centuries ago. They are comforting
words for all of us to remember in times of trial or trouble, in
times of hardship or affliction. When nothing else helps, it's
comforting to know that no pain or grief can last forever, that
whatever your burden may be--this, too, shall pass away.
[Quoted on pages 74-76 of _Light From Many Lamps_ by
Lillian Eichler Watson (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1951)]