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Favourite quote: If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got - Henry Ford

Not hard to understand, and great for giving yourself a kick up the arse when you're unhappy. 


I discovered the poem below about 20 years ago or so when hitting a down point brought on by work.  It made me think that FFS, I only get one life and I want to live it like this. 

I pick it up every once in a while and it always puts a smile on my face.  I've bolded the bits that I especially like and find useful. 

Hope you enjoy and find something positive from them too. 

Please add yours!  :cool:



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[font=Lato, sans-serif]Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. [/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. [/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. [/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.[/font]

[font=Lato, sans-serif]By Max Ehrmann © 1927
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That was a beautiful poem, op!

"I have my happy." from I Was in The Black Eyed Peas. Then I Quit. | 'Almost Famous' by Op-Docs. The way Kim Hill says it gives me an instant sense of comfort.
 
This poem has helped / inspired me in loads of different situations.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

If - Rudyard Kipling.
 
free
what does that mean to me?
it means not being ashamed of what I see in me
sure I stumble, sure I fall
but I get back up ready to face it all
I do have regrets that I can never forget
but that's not stopping me from taking a breath
or living my life despite struggle and strife
I've had it hard, had it easy
some days are dark some days they please me
and you've had good and bad days too
like others around you
around us, we're everywhere
sometimes we're selfish, ignorant, sometimes we care
just not at the same time and not the same place
we see things from different perspectives different mind states
one thing I know well is that to be free you must forgive
let go of your anger and let others live
have faith that justice will come in it's due time
you can't put out a flame with fire but you can be kind
to those who do you wrong
remember the silent can be strong
if we all gave in to anger, sought revenge, and hurt each other
can there be peace with our fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters?
I can contain the pain I feel
even if it means crying to the God who hears
some people have no one to cry to
they feel unloved so they show no love to others too
we can't force others to show love
but we can be the one to show them that that is what we're made of
 
'Does it hurt?' asked the Rabbit.

'Sometimes,' said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. 'When you are Real you don't mind being hurt.'

'Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,' he asked, 'or bit by bit?'

'It doesn't happen all at once,' said the Skin Horse. 'You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”

...The Velveteen Rabbit
 
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