When the Cheshire emerges...

Today is World Mental Health Day, and while I am promoting affirmations regularly this year in my posts I hope this helps anyone affected by mental illness.

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Your ability to be a winner 100 per cent of the time is based upon giving up the notion that losing at anything is equivalent to being a loser.

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Our days are the precious currency of our lives.

If you're suffering in your life right now, I can guarantee that you're somehow attached to how things should be going.

The more you work at just being yourself, the more likely you'll feel purposeful and significant in your life.

The universal principles will never show up in your life until you know they're there. When you believe in them, you'll see them everywhere.

You don't get abused because there are a lot of abusers out there. You get abused because you send out signals that say, "Abuse me, I'll take that."

What you have to learn to do is fall in love with what you do and then sell that love.

You can spend the rest of your life, beginning right now, worrying about the future - and no amount of worry will change a thing.

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Once you know that what you think about expands, you start getting really careful about what you think about.

If you depend on others for your value, it's "other-worth", not "self-worth".

In Western civilisation, we're accustomed to believing that what we produce and what we get for ourselves is a measure of who we are, when, in fact, that's a dead end.

When you're ready, whatever will need to be transformed will be there.

When you're just like everyone else in the world, you have to ask yourself, "What do I have to offer?"

Happiness, fulfillment and purpose in life are all inner concepts. If you don't have inner peace and serenity, then you have nothing.

Only a ghost wallows around in his past, explaining himself with descriptors based on a life already lived. You are what you choose today, not what you've chosen before.

A successful person isn't someone who makes a lot of money. A successful person brings success to everything that he or she does, and money is one of the payoffs.

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Those who behave in ways that you dislike are sending out their disharmony toward you because that's all they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on the tree.

You don't need to let anyone in your life unless they come in with love and harmony.

One of the highest places you can get to is to be independent of the good opinions of other people.

You're doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

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Why?

What’s over is over. You did what you knew how to do. It wasn’t right or wrong or good or bad. It just was. But all you’ve got is today. You can’t have it back.

No one can get behind your eyeballs and experience life the way that you do.

The only difference between ALONE and ALL ONE is one L… and that stands for love.
In matters of taste, you alone are, and must be, the sole judge of what pleases you.

Everything you “have to have” owns you.

It takes not one drop of sweat to put off doing something.

When God speaks through your hands and smiles upon the earth through you because you’re an unconditional giver, a purposeful being who asks nothing of anyone… prosperity will be your reward.

The freest people in the world are those who have inner peace.

Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.

Both of these are inspiring quotes, and I'm still rather enjoying going through
Staying on the Path and seeing what is there for me to take in every day.

There are some though that I sometimes see and think it's so much easier said than done. Or a case of just shaking my head because it'll never really happen.


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Take the second quote. I would say I'm nice to just about everyone I know - I certainly do my best to get along with people in all the different areas of my life.

There are some people that just don't want a bar of it though. People that perhaps have their own insecurities (everyone has those) but can't hide them other than by putting up a wall. Those who just have no sense of common courtesy, and those who are just plain rude and/or negative.

What happens? You try and be nice to people, be positive to people, but there will always be instances where it gets thrown back in your face.

That always hurts.

They try and teach you the concept of giving love/politeness/positivity to others to receive it, and I'm very much a believer in karma. Unfortunately, I finally have to face the fact not everyone grasps this. And I'm trying to deal with it.

At this point in time that quote really reads as "Give love and unconditional acceptance but don't waste your energy or expectation on getting the response you (think you) deserve".

It's still important to radiate positivity in life even if not everyone agrees with your view. For sanity of the soul.

If you slip, it doesn't mean you're less valuable. It simply means you have something to learn from slipping.

Fear of failure becomes fear of success for those who never try anything new.

To not forgive is to fail to understand how the universe works and how you fit into it.

An invisible intelligence suffuses all form in the universe, and allows flowers to grow and planets to align and the whole thing to exist.

The more you understand as a human being, the more you realise that you can either flow with life or fight it. And every time you fight something, you become weaker.

Plus one I had sent to me for good measure: