My Med Today

"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved."
-Marcus Antonius

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Worship," The Conduct of Life, 1860

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

“We are addicted to our thoughts. We cannot change anything if we cannot change our thinking.”
― Santosh Kalwar, Quote Me Everyday

"I love solitude. I enjoy the warmth being with myself; I am no more lonely."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

"Never under estimate the power of knowing. It helps me overcome many obstacles!"
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

"I can be with ME. I think I am beginning to accept and love ME despite all my flaws and weaknesses."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned.
Adult. You have become adult.”
― Harlan Ellison, Paingod and Other Delusions

“No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.”
― George Lucas, Star Wars Trilogy

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."
- Epictetus

"I have found that if you love life, life will love you back."
- Arthur Rubinstein

“I'm who i wasn't yesterday and who i won't be tomorrow.”
― Emmanuel Aghado

“A person is not a closed system, they can never be fully self-sufficient. We need each other because we cannot make everything ourselves. Everything was invented, but it was not done alone, so we should revere the times we are able to fill this complementary role for others, and cherish when others do so for us. It's the words of others that teach us to speak, the expressions of life by other people that teach us how to express ourselves.”
― Frank Chimero, The Shape of Design

“A man’s thoughts can change his entire life; Whatever you cannot perceive, you cannot receive.”
― Justice Okafor

“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”
― Dejan Stojanovic

“If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Either you will be you or you will not be at all.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

"The meaning of my life, the attitudes of my life and values of my life are the "Handles of LIFE" I hold on to when facing difficult times; I grow stronger."
-ChristianDM, On Living with His Madness.

“Life will always be sorrowful. We can't change it, but we can change our attitude toward it.”
― Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“Every adversity is just another opportunity to excel a little more.”
― Michel Templet

“Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.”
― Michel Templet

"Happy Thank you More Please"
-my ex mother in law, telling me about a film she liked

I look around me with gratitude for the reality I'm co-creating with the Universe.
-me reflecting on a documentary The Secret