The CP Diary

Something inspirational:

“Be strong. Be hopeful. Seize the day boldly and shape it to your own ends and never be surprised if it sprouts a hundred different obstacles for you to overcome. Your treasure will never be given to you. You must know yourself, stay true to yourself and wrest your destiny from the grasp of life.”

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

Something to ponder:

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.”

UNKNOWN

Something to ponder:

“This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won’t feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. I believe you can’t feel real joy unless you’ve felt heartache …

I am sure you will all be aware from my recent posts that my father is in hospital, shortly to go into a hospice. I will be spending time with family over the next few days, but will still be posting daily and will be on email from time to time.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for continuing to support The CP Diary. Things will be back to normal shortly. I will be thinking of you all.

Something inspirational:

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Something inspirational:

“Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

A positive thought:

“Focus only on what you can change, don’t focus on what you can’t control, think positive and the positives will come.”

S. REITER

Just a thought:

“The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can come. You want to help them, and then that begins a compassionate act. So I’d say that compassion begins with attention.”

DANIEL GOLEMAN

Today’s affirmation:

I am at peace with my past. I choose to release the past now. I move forward by letting go of the past. I choose to forgive others and myself. I am grateful and happy to experience new joys in life.

Thought for the day:

“There is an Indian belief that everyone is a house of four rooms: a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual room. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not complete.”

RUMER GODDEN