Tough times

I have recently found that many of my friends, family, peers, etc have really been going through rough times, emotionally, physically, mentally, whatever it is. I myself have experienced this in the past few weeks as well. So I have decided to compile a blog of quotes and other inspirational tidbits to help others as well as myself get through these hardships.

Perhaps someone I don't know will come across this as well and it will help them pass whatever troubles they may have along : )

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
- Alan Watts

As long as you live, keep learning how to live
- Seneca

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
- Matthew 7:7-8 (see also verses 9 -12)

I will cause you to walk in the straight way...
I will open to you the gates of righteousness..
For whoever finds Me, finds life
- Psalm 118:19; Proverbs. 8: 35-6

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
- Chinese Proverb

You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
- Chinese Proverb

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Southern Mail, 1929, translated from French by Curtis Cate

honesty is a hard attribute to find

when we all wanna seem like

we've got it all figured out.

well let me be the first to say that I

don't have a clue

I don't have all the answers.

ain't gonna pretend like I do

I'm just tryin' to find my way.

Tryin' to find my way the best that I know how.

-Lifehouse "Trying"

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." ~A.A. Milne

and if those don't help you out, this surely will : )