Random Thoughts On Life...

• Living successfully today requires us to learn from the past but to leave it behind and not dwell on it. 

• Strangers can sometimes love you easier than family because strangers have no history with you that they can hold against you.  But family loves you despite your history and flaws.

• The way out of suffering is through it. Accept that you are suffering and do what you can do end it.  Sometimes only time will help, but many times people find suffering is easier than working hard and making necessary changes in order to end it.

• Suffering should help us grow in compassion and be sensitive towards the suffering of others.

• When someone treats us unkindly we can either learn how to treat others with kindness so as to not make others feel the same way, or to become bitter and make others feel as we have been made to feel.  That choice is ours.

• Roadblocks in life are tests to see how much you want something.  You can go over it, around it, through it... or stop.  If you stop, you did not want it as much as others who persevered past their roadblocks.  They are not there to stop us, but to stop those who do not want things badly enough to persevere.

• In life, we always have two choices about our circumstances; we can change our circumstances or we can change our attitude about our circumstances. Once we change our attitude, our circumstances change naturally.

• Life doesn't always go your way, don't take it personally.

• Everyone is perfect... until compared with any others.

• A need to control things is usually based on the fear of things controlling you.

• What you worry about is actually what controls you.• If you put yourself first, you will have only one person doing so.  If we all put everyone else first, we all will have many people looking out for us.

• Why is it we can all think something is "too good too be true" while we never seem to feel anything is "too bad to be true"?

• The one real weakness we have is underestimating the part our very own thoughts played in creating the circumstances we have in our life today.

• The only reason people don't have their prayers answered is because they quit praying before their prayer request is fulfilled.  And sometimes the prayers are answered differently from the way we would like - what is best for us is not always readily apparent to us.