G = Good Grief!

Ever feel like Charlie Brown?  No matter how hard you try, there’s a Lucy to remind you of your shortcomings?  Someone you try to talk to that charges you a nickel, again Lucy, to listen to you and tell you you might as well accept you’re a loser?  We smile at poor Charlie Brown and wince when Lucy snatches away the football as he is ready to really kick it this time—surprised—again.  Well, after a while, we echo Lucy in saying, “Good Grief!” as we commiserate with poor Charlie Brown.  Or is it Charlie Brown who wails out “Good Grief!” time and time again?  No matter.  This blog is written simply to list sayings that can help counter the Good Grief syndrome.  Here are our favorites:

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”  David Carradine

“Forever is composed of nows.”  Emily Dickinson

“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.  For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.  For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”  Ivan Panin

“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”  Pericles

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.”  William Hazlitt

“There are many paths to enlightenment.  Be sure to take one with a heart.”  Lao Tzu

“We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.”  Ben Sweatband

“Be an explorer.  The universe is filled with wonder and magical things.”  Flavia

“Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.”  William James

“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”  Dorothy Thompson

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”  George Eliot

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”  Anais Nin

 Like those?  We do.  They often keep us going.  But we will conclude with our favorite and the one we turn to most often by Carl Jung—

“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.”

Think about it… good night.  Sweet dreams.