Stress/Discomfort

“Most human beings need tension: a certain, healthy, measured tension. Such tension promotes mental health and constitutes everything that is being human.”
- Viktor Frankl, "Will to Meaning"

Steadfastness

"It's obviously flattering when people say pleasant things about you, but you must never let it affect you fundamentally. In the same manner, you must never let it bother you when people say nasty things about you. I look at it and turn the page."
Helen Zille Democratic Alliance Leader; Mayor of Cape Town

Despair

"There is no reason for despair. For every problem, you hold countless solutions."
Hajjar Gibran

Birth

"We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first and the spirit later. Our mothers are wracked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the pains of our spiritual growth."
- Mary Antin "The Promised Land"

Take the Plunge

"Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have."
- Doris Mortman

Spit It Out

"If there is a bad taste in your mouth you spit it out, you don't constantly swallow it back".
- Movie "Amazing Grace"

Serenity

"Serene women do not become sidetracked. Sidetracked women, who scatter their energy to the four winds, never achieve serenity."
- Sarah Ban Breathnach "Simple Abundance" March 1st

Guilt, Shame and Fear

"Guilt shame and fear do a war dance together that leaves us with anxiety and feelings of emptiness, incompleteness and hopelessness... Because of fear we run from looking within ourselves, and we begin to look to people, places, activities and possessions for our happiness. It is... this extreme search for peace of mind... that pushes us towards our first steps in addiction."
- Lee Jampolsky "Healing the Addictive Mind" p9