Defeat:

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it! Put your dream across, and never mind what “they” say if you meet with temporary defeat, for “they,” perhaps, do not know that every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Napoleon Hill

Have compassion on a rabid dog, for it is not you that has caused the irritation, but the infection. POM

The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men. -Emile Zola, writer (2 Apr 1840-1902)

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

Pushing Buttons
Untended Pain
by Madisyn Taylor

When somebody continues to open our old wounds on purpose, they must be told that their behavior is no longer welcome.


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What a powerful word-NO. POM

"For all healing, mental or material, attune each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the divine that lies within each atom, each cell of the body." Edgar Cayce Reading 3384-2

Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard work. -- Henry Ward Beecher

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. William James

POM

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

William James