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February 23, 2013 by kevinstilley

Loneliness – select quotes

LonlinessLoneliness is the most devastating malody of this age.
~ Paul Tournier

Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon to a few solitary men like myself, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
~ Thomas Wolfe

Unlovely, nay, frightful, is the solitude of the soul without God in the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at television. They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.
~ Carl Sandburg

They are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts.
~ Sir Philip Sidney

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
~ Mother Teresa

One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do. Two can be as bad as one. It’s the loneliest number since the number one…
~ Three Dog Night

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
~ Mark Twain

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December 8, 2012 by kevinstilley

Happiness – select quotes

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True happiness… arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.
~ Joseph Addison

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.
~ Woody Allen

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts; therefore guard accordingly.
~ Marcus Aurelius

The strength and the happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way, too.
~ Henry Ward Beecher

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
~ Rita Mae Brown

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
~ Dale Carnegie

Seek to do good and you will find that happiness will run after you.
~ James Freeman Clarke

The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
~ Ernest Dimnet

Happy is the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have liv’d today.
~ John Dryden, in “Translation of Horace”

I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves — such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine.
~ Albert Einstein, in The World As I See It

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
~ Anne Frank

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

Being miserable is a habit. Being happy is a habit. The choice is yours.
~ Tom Hopkins

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
~ Kin Hubbard

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved—loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
~ Victor Hugo

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
~ Helen Keller

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln

There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.
~ Peyton Conway March

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
~ John Stuart Mill

How happy a person is depends upon the depth of his gratitude.
~ John Miller

As the astronauts soar into the vast eternities of space, on earth the garbage piles higher; as the groves of academe extend their domain, the alumni’s arms reach lower; as the phallic cult spreads, so does impotence. In great wealth, great poverty; in health, sickness; in numbers deception. Gorging, left hungry; sedated, left restless; telling all, hiding all; in flesh united, forever separate. So we press on through the valley of abundance that leads to the wasteland of stiety, passing through the gardens of fantasy; seeking happiness every more ardently, and finding despair even more surely.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge, in “The Great Liberal Deathwish”

Happiness is neither within or without us—it is in God and only when God is in us is happiness within and without us.
~ Blaise Pascal

All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.
~ Blaise Pascal

If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
~ William Penn

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values.
~ Ayn Rand

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
~ Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.
~ William Sheldon

Happiness is mostly a byproduct of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.
~ Benjamin Spock

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
~ Leon Suenens

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
~ Martha Washington

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May 30, 2011 by kevinstilley

Fun In The Sun

Kevin and RickSwimming, boating, golf, camping — many people will get more sun over the Memorial Day weekend than they have for many months. That can be both good and bad.

Bad if you catch too many rays, we’ve all had that experience.

But good in many, many ways. Sunlight is one of the best medications for depression, your skin creates additional vitamin D when exposed to sunshine which is believed to help the immune system, and as for me …

… it helps me live in the moment.

I recently wrote about sitting on the hardwood floors of my childhood home and watching the sun rays expose the tiny little objects floating around in the air. Forty years later I still feel good when I think about that moment in which time seemed to slow down, everything else faded away, and I was completely 100% alive in the minute details of the event. Sunlight.

I have many memories that seem to have been somehow focused and made special by the rays of the sun; laying in a rubber raft feeling the rays penetrate my body while floating down Spring River, seeing the rays of the sun slip through the cracks in the roof of our hen-house, the anticipation building as the sun comes up on the morning of Miami, Oklahoma’s annual Sidewalk Sale….

The very first memory I have of life involves sunlight. Our dairy cow was as much pet as she was product. In fact, even her name was “Pet.” My first, and one of my best, memories in life is of her sunbathing in the pasture, me crawling up lying down on her, feeling her sides rise and fall as she breathed in and out, feeling the radiant heat absorbed by her coarse red hair from the suns rays.

Yes, the sun has a way of helping one be completely 100% alive in the minute details of events. Enjoy your Memorial Day. May it be bright and sunny.

Filed Under: Blog, Family Tagged With: Blog, cancer, dairy, depression, Family, memory, Missouri, radiation, sun, ultraviolet

January 8, 2011 by kevinstilley

Franklin D. Roosevelt – select quotes

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Filed Under: Blog, Quotes Tagged With: depression, FDR, quotations, Quotes, Roosevelt

December 15, 2010 by kevinstilley

Normal Responses to Grief and Loss

What is normal when it comes to grief and loss?  There isn’t really a “normal”.  However, the document at the link below might help you understand some of what to expect.

Normal Responses to Grief and Loss

Filed Under: Blog, Pastoral Care Tagged With: counseling, depression, grief, Loss, Pastoral Care, sorrow

November 30, 2008 by kevinstilley

Good Mood Foundation

I have great respect for my friend Mike Attar.
You can read his story HERE.
You can go to his wesite HERE.

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, depression, good mood, personal growth

November 21, 2008 by kevinstilley

Calvin Coolidge – select quotes

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world.
~ Presidential message, December 25, 1927

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

The right of the police of Boston to affiliate, which has been questioned, never granted, is now prohibited. There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.
~ in a telegram to AFL President Gompers, September 14, 1919

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March 2, 2008 by kevinstilley

Depression / The Blues

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Ten rules for getting rid of the blues: Go out and do something for someone else – and repeat it nine times.
~ Unknown

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Blog, blues, depression, dismay, grief, happiness, mental health, Quotes, sorrow, Worldview

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