We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” -Orson Welles. With an over two month inpatient hospital stay and constant therapy or doctor appointments upon discharge, my social life was dead on arrival. Not to mention …
“There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.” -Muhammad Ali. Sometimes, the greatest pleasure of your day is a cup of coffee in the morning. In coping with life after a near death I have in no way minimized my expectations or goals, but …
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I’ve ever known.” ― Chuck Palahniuk. I have always felt a little out of place or like an observer of this great big fish bowl earth, that’s teeming with life. This was especially true after I was injured and found myself displaced from …
“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.” ― Helen Keller. When you look at something, what do you see? Do you see what’s on the surface, the physical, the flaws, the beauty, or the potential? In my experience, if you can supersede your natural instincts and …
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms-to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances.” – Viktor Frankl, holocaust survivor. The most important choice you make every day is your attitude. Your internal attitudes are more important than your external circumstances. Joy is mind over matter. …
“It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.”- Paul Cezanne. It only took twenty days to upend twenty eight years of progress, now at the age of an adult I was starting over like a child. After waking from the coma(all twenty days of it) and being cleared …
, “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him.” positively. -Bob Marley. Whether you’re considered an artist or not, we all create something. What ever that something is, be it cooking, painting, playing an instrument, taking care of …
“Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing. Believe in yourself. And believe that there is a loving Source – a Sower of Dreams – just waiting to be asked to help you make your dreams come true.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach. As with every new year we get a clean …
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”- Confucius. I’m absolutely positive that had I died, my Mother would deeply regret all the times She turned me away as a child asking Her to play. Because childhood is precious and fleeting, and because many years later that same …
“In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.” -Les Brown. Just as the ebb and flow of a river is changed when a large boulder is dropped into it, so are our lives when we encounter the large impact of another human being. Ever …
