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These pages on my website are for the inclusion of inspiring words of encouragement either your own or quotations from others that might give comfort or encouragement to fellow sufferers of any of the illnesses included in the web site. Also welcome are accounts of your personal positive thoughts and experiences as you cope with your specific illness. I keep a list of quotations that I find inspiring and encouraging or just plain insightful concerning life and its relation to some of the medical conditions from which I suffer. These quotations are from all cultures and traditions I hope you will find some comfort in reading them.  Here are just a few others will be added in due course.

Give sorrow words…which swells with silence in the tortured soul.
William Shakespeare.

Rest in natural great peace
This exhausted mind
Beaten helplessly by karma and neurotic thought
Like the relentless fury of pounding waves
In the infinite ocean of samsara.
Nyoshuh Khenpo Rimpoche.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Seneca.

We believe we own our thoughts and have to do something about them, especially if they are negative. This is bound to create suffering.
Ayya Khema, "Be an Island"

These things may seem ridiculous to others,
even as ridiculous as they were in themselves,
but to me they were the most tormenting cogitations. 
John Bunyon, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.
Maurice Chevalier

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer because smaller things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of suffering.    
Thomas Merton

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.            
Sir Francis Bacon.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life, specifically fear of change and fear of the unknown; and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, turn back, turn back, you'll die if you venture too far.
Erica Jong.

 I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow.

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao-Tzu .

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.
Ivan Turgenev.

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