I've always found this to helpful at times when I feel lonely or unloved:

Love is a verb. The feeling of love comes from when you love someone.

- Stephen Covey, 7 habits of effective people

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Hi Wizard1, I love that one. Thank you for making me smile.

"Think thoughts that make you happy. Do things that make you feel good. Be with people who make you feel good. Eat things that make your body feel good. Go at a pace that makes you feel good."

~Louise L. Hay

Flowers grow back

even after

the harshest winters.

You will too.

- Jennae Cecelia

When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

- Bryant McGill

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

-Unknown

On reflecting upon our own actions, and doing our best to make a positive contribution:

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

- Jane Goodall

P.S. Music_Freak, thank you very much for the lovely and supportive post :)

Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step.

-Naeem Callaway

Be kind to yourself today. Even if you are not where you thought you would be, you are still allowed to find peace in the beautiful reality that you are still on a journey, and you cannot measure yourself up against the miles you have not travelled yet.

Be kind to yourself, in a grace-filled, honest way, knowing no matter the things that have been far from perfect, you are growing at a steady pace.

- Morgan Harper Nichols

I am not lost, I

am just working out

my way, no longer

following the

signposts outside

but instead following

the compass

within me.

-S.C Lourie

Birdy and Peppermint...I just about cried reading these.

Too fragile lately...

Hi Narelle, sorry to read that you're feeling so fragile lately. University is a big undertaking, and you're doing well despite what you may feel. Please have some patience with yourself.

Birdy, Pepper, Rose and all other contributors here - thank you for your inspiring posts.

Here's another one for you all, and perhaps this one applies to you Narelle?

Sometimes, the strongest among us are the ones who smile through silent pain, cry behind closed doors, and fight battles nobody knows about. By: Unknown (or maybe many) Authors

Amanda 🌺

Not everything is repairable.
Sometimes it breaks.
Breaks beyond saving.

Let it crash,
let it lie where it falls.
Let it be broken.

Let it be.
Let it be.

Spiral out.
Keep going.

Keep going.

-Victoria Erickson

Do not apologise

for your decision to

elevate your thoughts,

upgrade your standards,

or separate yourself

from those who interrupt

your greatness.

- Cara Alwill Leyba

Amanda...thank you for your kind words, I appreciate them...

And along with Birdy's recent posts...it helped calm me a little :)

All of these are so beautiful. Thank you to those who have posted such lovely words, this thread always makes me smile.

"Every day may not be good. But there is something good in every day."

~Unknown Author

Best wishes, Rose

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

- J.K. Rowling

When everything seems way too hard, try to concentrate on 3 things:

1. Get up
2. Survive
3. Go back to bed

Sometimes it is a major personal victory just to survive the day. Learn to celebrate that victory ... with the knowledge that things will not always be this difficult.

Amanda

You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved.

But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly - that still hurts when it gets cold, but you learn to dance* with the limp.

- Ann Lamont

*or walk...walking with a limp is okay too...

P.S. Music_Freak, it sounds like you could do with a hug. So if you’re okay with hugs, I’m going to offer one to you today xoxo

I'll take that hug, thank you Peppermint :)

That post made me cry, thinking about my mum, it's very true. Always hard around my birthday, hers and Christmas and the anniversary...

I’m so sorry about your mum, Music_Freak. You must miss her terribly...

I hope the next couple of quotes bring you (and anyone else who has lost a loved one) some small comfort.

It’s just fine to feel a little heavy, and it’s fine to just sit here and catch my breath, and it’s just fine to be a mess at times, and it’s fine to be relatively normal sometimes. It’s just fine to miss them. It’s just fine to let it all hit me, surrendering and succumbing.

And it’s just fine to remember that grief has no rules, and that it really, it will last as long as Love does.

- unknown

Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give but cannot. All of that unspent love gathers up in the corner of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just Love with no place to go.

- unknown

Pepper xoxo

"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward"

Basically, if things aren't working for you at the moment, trying new things and not succeeding isn't necessarily a bad thing. It is much worse to just give up and not attempt to move forward!