I like to leave myself notes around the house, especially at my desk and on the refrigerator and other places near where I do work. Any suggestions for some encouragement? I am still lingering in "Insurance Purgatory" and I have been really sick for weeks. I could really use some uplifting. (comedy is always appreciated, also - I have a pretty quirky sense of humor! :biggrin:)

Thanks! You are all awesome! Finding this place has really helped me over the last year of trying for surgery. I am just starting to wear down a bit.:cool2:

I usually don't like this type of thing...BUT I found a few years back a quote by the poet Shel Silverstein that grabbed me by the throat. I had been working a job I hated for 20+ years and just quit, to go back to school and TRY to get into Nursing school. I was fat, almost 50, and in moments of sanity thought I was totally deluding myself. Now I'm about to graduate (still fat but that's improving; the age I can't help!) so it is a true little quote:

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me: Anything can happen, child. Anything can be".

I just love it.

I usually don't like this type of thing...BUT I found a few years back a quote by the poet Shel Silverstein that grabbed me by the throat. I had been working a job I hated for 20+ years and just quit, to go back to school and TRY to get into Nursing school. I was fat, almost 50, and in moments of sanity thought I was totally deluding myself. Now I'm about to graduate (still fat but that's improving; the age I can't help!) so it is a true little quote:

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me: Anything can happen, child. Anything can be".

I just love it.

Thank you, that's a good one. We have some of his books, my daughter likes him a lot! My aunt quit her 20+ year job and went to nursing school at age 50, too!!!! That must be a "self examination age"!

One of many that i tell myself often."Thoughts Become Things, So Choice The Good ONes." or "If It's To Be,It's Up To Me."WE must keep filling our minds with good thoughts each and everyday.

The idea for the lapband came from the scriptures...

if it offends thee, cut it off

Don't know where that is....but it's in the scriptures somewhere.

lose2regainme, your screen name is inspiring to me. "Lose to regain me" is the truth!

Here are a few quotes, etc. my best freind gave me:

Courage...doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying...I will try again tomorrow.

Mary Anne Radmacher

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Kind words can be short and easy, but their echoes are endless.

Mother Teresa

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Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Abraham Lincoln

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An Irish Prayer

May God give you...

For every storm, a rainbow,

For every tear, a smile,

For every care, a promise,

And a blessing in each trial.

For every problem life sends,

A faithful friend to share,

For every sigh, a sweet song,

And an answer for each prayer.

Phil 3:14 "I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus"

'Nuf said

I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

I don't know where I got this one, but I keep it posted at my desk:

"I may not have all my ducks in a row, but at least I have them all in the same pond"

Positive quotes?!? You got it. They may not be scripture, but inspiring nontheless...

- Pain is never permanent.

-Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

-What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight ; it's the size of the fight in the dog.

-Genius is 1% inspriration and 99% perspiration.

-Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

-Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.

-Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

-It is your attitude, more than your aptitude that will determine your altitude.

-You are the author of your own life story.

-I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.

-The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

-Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-To thine own self be true.

-Success is not measured by the position you reach in life, but rather the obstacles you've overcome.

I know I have more quotes, but can't think of them off the top of my head!!!

You are all AWESOME!!!!!! I really needed this today. Your sayings were great, some I have seen before, many I have not. Some made me laugh, and some made me cry. Others made me think. All of them I really needed. Thank you! You're all the BEST!!!:confused:

P.S. Thanks, also, for commenting on my user name. I thought long and hard for something to keep my attitude where it needed to be.:w00t:

....with God, ALL things are possible.

Matthew 19:26

I saw this quote on a fortune that came in a tin of mints about 12 years ago, and it has been with me ever since:

"He who says it cannot be done should get out of the way of the person doing it"

- Old Chinese Proverb

o.

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"If what you are working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got"

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do - not that the nature of the thing is changed, but that our power to do is increased." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those I had to kill because they pissed me off.

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just keep swimming, just keep swimming

-dori the fish, finding nemo

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nothing tastes as good as being thin will feel

-dont know who, its on someone's signature

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does this dress make me look fat?

its not the dress that makes you look fat. its the fat that makes you look fat.

-the back forty calendar (its hanging up in my office. i know it probably doesnt seem motivational, but it is for me??, plus its funny)