Leslie Nelson - Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Some of my Favorite Quotes
Buddha was asked: “What have you gained from Meditation?” He replied: “Nothing.” “However”, Buddha said, “let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old Age, and Death.”
Author Unknown
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new.
Socrates
When the music changes so does the dance.
African Proverb
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Carl Bard
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Don’t force the change that you wish to see in the world on others.
L Nelson
It’s weird not to be weird.
John Lennon
Trouble no man about his religion—respect him in his views and demand that he respect yours.
Shawnee
If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.
Brene Brown
Only those that risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
TS Eliot
If you think that you are too small to make a difference, you haven’t spent a night with a mosquito.
African Proverb
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
Gender equality is not a woman’s issue, it is a human issue. It affects us all.
Mary Wollstonecraft
You can disagree without being disagreeable.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The person who agrees with you 80% of the time is a friend and an ally—not a 20% traitor.
Ronald Reagan
Everything is grist for the mill.
Proverb and Yalom
If we can open your mind to laughter, we can slip in a little information.
Virginia Tooper
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realized that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity.
John Lennon
All of us have schnozzles…if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.
Jimmy Durante
Sometimes, the best way to make a big difference is adding up lots of small ones.
Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan
Ask for what you want instead of always waiting for permission.
Virginia Satir
Celebrate any progress. Don’t wait to get perfect.
Ann McGee-Cooper
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucious
What you are expecting determines whether you will or will not be able to see the possibilities all around you.
Daniel R. Castro
Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge
Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
African Proverb
Patience is also a form of action.
Auguste Rodin
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Harper Lee
It’s not what happens to you. It’s what you do before it, during it, and after it.
Alan Weiss
The perfume of sandalwood, the scent of the bay leaf and jasmine, travel only as far as the wind—but the fragrance of goodness travels with us through all the worlds. Like garlands woven from flowers, fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
Buddha
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Treasure this day and treasure yourself. Truly, neither will ever happen again.
Ray Bradbury
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen
Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
Nido Qubein
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