Snips

Go play. Yes, take a break and go play. When your head starts to pound and your back starts to ache, stop. Do something you want to do. Do something that feels good, feels fun. Leave your worries behind. Put them in a box, then close it and go play. We make sure that our children take time for recess every day. But we forget that we need recess, too. The lingering threads of work and worry can tie us to tasks done and undone. They can block our connection to joy, creativity, and the vital life-giving force that courses through us all. We no longer need to slump with tension and fatigue. It isn't necessary and doesn't help a thing. Most often, it hurts. Your fatigue may be from lack of play as much as lack of sleep. You might begin to see that you don't need a rest, a nap, or more vitamin C. You need play.
Play as much as you can. Find time - take time - to play. It may give you the energy you need.
Melody Beattie

Recognize that every person in our lives truly is doing the very best they know how.
Mary Manin Morrissey

AA Thought for the Day / When, with God's help, we calmly accepted our lot, then we found we could live at peace with ourselves and show others who still suffered the same fears that they could get over them, too. / 12 & 12 p. 122

We are all cases of self-fulfilling prophecy. Whatever we prophesize, or believe, about ourselves will come true. This is why it is very important to pay attention to our thoughts -- to make sure we don't let them go on and on unattended. Our thoughts are like misbehaved children -- we need to pay attention to them. Start listening to your self talk. Pay attention to what you're inwardly telling yourself day after day. Then if what you hear isn't prophesizing the results you want, then you can choose to change what you tell yourself.
Marie T. Russell

If you can place yourself in the company of people who are infused with spirit, their energy gives you spark and facilitation - a confidence boost. Fortunately, the electricity of spirit is contagious. When this positive energy of well-beingness circulates through your system, people often refer to you as being "lit up."
Benjamin Disraeli

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt

“The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.” —
Marcus Aurelius

"We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character."
Henry David Thoreau

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson