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Voicelessness and Emotional Survival => Voicelessness and Emotional Survival Message Board => Topic started by: Hopalong on July 25, 2006, 06:22:56 PM

Title: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: Hopalong on July 25, 2006, 06:22:56 PM

One of mine is borrowed from a cartoon. I say aloud now and then:

I yam what I yam, said Popeye.

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: portia guest on July 26, 2006, 02:51:41 PM

So who died?
(only used when nobody died)

We all die.
(true perspective)

Nobody’s perfect.
(we all muck up)

80% of people are shit.
(okay, not very serious, but it helps me)

Right now is okay. 8)

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: Hopalong on July 26, 2006, 09:09:50 PM

80% ??
that's pretty high, hon...

hmmm.
Y'know, P,
that doesn't quite meet the bar for ... affirmation...

Poor you. (((P)))

Me, I think 80% of people are excellent.

(Opposites attract!)

Hops (lame thread idea anyhoo    :) )

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: WRITE on July 27, 2006, 03:38:57 AM

all will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of things will be well.


I read it in a cathedral once.

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: Hopalong on July 27, 2006, 07:05:59 AM

I love that, Write.

Thank you!
Would love to find it on a postcard or something.

lovely.

Hops

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: Healing&Hopeful on July 27, 2006, 07:11:39 AM

I think my favourite is

"I am free to be myself"

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: mountainspring on July 27, 2006, 08:42:44 AM

My son's boss has this on her wall at work.  He copied it and has it on his wall in his room.

Attitude
By: Charles Swindoll

The longer I live the more I realize the impact of life on attitude.  Attitude, to me, is more important than the facts.  It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, then successes, than what other people think or say or do.  It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skills.  It will make or break a company, a church, a home.  The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  We cannot change our past, we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.  And so it is with you.  We are in charge of our attitudes.”

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: jordanspeeps on July 27, 2006, 09:10:47 AM

"God is good, All the time!"
(when I'm in a bind and want to scream out, "WHY ME??!!")

"The devil is a liar!"
(whenever I am confused or in doubt)

"A tree is known by the fruit it bears"
(when I'm not sure of what type of person I'm dealing with)

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: Certain Hope on July 27, 2006, 09:25:03 AM

Mountainspring, reading that made me go look up another Chuck Swindoll quote I remember from a radio broadcast years ago.
He said: 

The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.

Now that is renewal of the mind.

And Tiffany.... Amen to all three!

Hope

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: WRITE on July 27, 2006, 12:09:43 PM

I did some research, most interesting.
It is a quote from a book by Dame Julian of Norwich Revelations of Divine Love who became an 'anchoress'
( lived a solitary life of silence and prayer in a single small room, or cell often attached to the church or city walls )

She describes seeing God holding a tiny thing in his hand, like a small brown nut, which seemed so fragile and insignificant that she wondered why it did not crumble before her eyes. She understood that the thing was the entire created universe, which is as nothing compared to its Creator, and she was told, "God made it, God loves it, God keeps it."

She was concerned that sometimes when we are faced wiith a difficult moral decision, it seems that no matter which way we decide, we will have acted from motives that are less then completely pure, so that neither decision is defensible. She finally wrote: "It is enough to be sure of the deed. Our courteous Lord will deign to redeem the motive."

A matter that greatly troubled her was the fate of those who through no fault of their own had never heard the Gospel. She never received a direct answer to her questions about them, except to be told that whatever God does is done in Love, and therefore "that all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well."

Speaking of her visions of heaven and hell, she said, "To me was shown no harder hell than sin."

God made it, God loves it, God keeps it.

I will use that one too, when my frustrations grow at insensitive tree-culling and lack of environmental concern ( TX being well out-of-step with the rest of the planet )

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: Sela on July 27, 2006, 06:23:35 PM

            Life is a gift I choose to receive with joy.

Title: Re: Favorite Affirmations?
Post by: WRITE on July 28, 2006, 02:06:58 AM

I just found this on a coping skills website:

http://www.coping.org/growth/affirm.htm