Sometimes it’s hard to believe that the pain you feel today will indeed be the strength you feel tomorrow. When you’re in the bottomless pit of chemo despair, for example, finding strength can feel virtually impossible. However, I believe from the bottom of my tippy toes that it is there and that pain will be… Continue reading The Pain You Feel Today
Breast Cancer Quotes & Inspiration
Inspiring Napoleon Hill Quotes
Napoleon HIll quotes always inspire and motivate me. Kind of like finding Silver Linings, I believe that what the mind can conceive & believe, it can indeed achieve. So go ahead…try it!
The Dalai Lama Quote about Happiness
This Dalai Lama quote about happiness is my inspiration for the day. I adore it and couldn’t agree more that happiness does indeed come from within, from our own actions. I hope that this quote inspires you as much as it does me!
The Most Important Thing in Life – Morrie Schwartz
As a nurse, social worker and child development specialist, giving out love has always come very naturally. However, after I became a patient, I had to learn to let love come in. What a tough learning curve it was! However, there was a great deal of time that I was so debilitated that I didn’t… Continue reading The Most Important Thing in Life – Morrie Schwartz
The Voice by Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein is at the tippy top of our list of favorite authors. I mean, really. What a gifted – truly gifted – writer he was. I am especially enamored by his poem, “The Voice.” Isn’t this message – that there is a voice inside each of us that tells us what is right and what… Continue reading The Voice by Shel Silverstein
You Deserve Love – Buddah
How great is this quote? I mean really. I hope that it inspires as much love in your heart as it has in mine. Please, give yourself a compliment followed by a hug today.
Creativity – Einstein
Love love love this Einstein quote. Sometimes, when I am in “the zone” I almost feel guilty because I am having so much doggone FUN. This quote reminds me that creativity is indeed intelligence having fun! What a great inspiration and Silver Lining it is for me. I hope that you can have some FUN today!!
The One Reason it Will Work
For some reason, I’ve been hearing “that won’t work” or “there’s no way that’s going to happen.” Geesh! Not sure from where this negativity is coming, but I don’t like it and am sure to meet it with the philosophy: “Forget all the reasons it won’t work and believe the one reason that it will.” I’m… Continue reading The One Reason it Will Work
Paris: The Photography of John Mardiat
Hope you had a great Bastille Day! Having just returned France, I’ve been feeling especially francophile-ish. This weekend, we had a fun family outing to the French festival in Santa Barbara, an annual homage to any and all things French, albeit Southern California Style …and also happened to be as close to France as we were getting… Continue reading Paris: The Photography of John Mardiat
Malala Yousafzai United Nations Youth Assembly Speech
Happy Monday! Ready for some serious inspiration? Most people get their driver’s license on their 16th birthday. Not Malala Yousafzai. Rather, on her sixteenth birthday, a mere nine months after being shot in the head in an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman in northwest Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai addressed the United Nations Youth Assembly… Continue reading Malala Yousafzai United Nations Youth Assembly Speech