Time for Renewal

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore

When It’s Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly -
spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity
to renew itself and create order.
- Susan Taylor

Today's affirmation:
I shine my light of happiness into the darkness of negativity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Further reading: Realizing Success

Nothing to look forward to?

Every Day, a New Day

Is Hope Futile?
  

Staying Cheerful

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them. - Albert Pike 

 Affirmation: I welcome this day with a cheerful face.

Further reading: The Secret of Happiness Breaking the Cycle of Self-Inflicted Suffering 

  Ten Little Tips to Feel Happier Right Now

Dont cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
- Anonymous

Have no regrets. How much better to have enjoyed the experience, or the person, for a time than to have never experienced that joy. Release both the good times and the bad times. The nature of life is constant change. Celebrate change.

Further reading: Rabindranath Tagore quote: If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

Helen Keller: Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Sympathy Quotes about Death

How to get over regrets and resentments

Rabindranath Tagore quote: If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
- Rabindranath Tagore

The nature of life is constant change, yet we fight against it. Why do we fight change? Humans are creatures of habit and instinctively fear the unknown.

Affirmation: I welcome change as a great adventure.

Further reading: Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anais Nin

Helen Keller: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

Joseph Campbell: The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

Rabindranath Tagore