Showing posts with label anger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anger. Show all posts

Monday, January 3, 2022

Peace and Valuing Moments

 If we are to have true peace in the world, we must first find it within ourselves."Most people agree that a more peaceful world would be an ideal situation for all living creatures. However, we often seem stumped as to how to bring this ideal situation into being. If we are to have true peace...
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Thursday, September 12, 2019

Anger

"Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson How does anger typically surface in your life? We usually get angry at someone, don't we? We judge that someone has done something wrong and we want them to be punished. In truth, the...
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Sunday, March 18, 2018

Bitterness and Anger

"When we acknowledge that it is okay to feel bitter, we reconnect with our hurt in a constructive way and can begin the process of working through it." An excerpt from an article on The Daily Om entitled "Bitterness" . . . the article follows this post.  Visit their website for awesome...
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Saturday, December 9, 2017

What Not To Say

Those close to us mean well, but when depression hits, there are certain things not to say to a depressed person . . . it is not helpful! I found an article on the subject of what not to say . . . click here for the entire article.  The following quotation is an excerpt from the article...
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Monday, May 26, 2014

Everything Happens For A Reason

When all the pieces of our life don’t quite make sense, we can remember that there may be some hidden gem of a reason that we are where we are having the experiences we are having.  Source:  Daily Om There have been awful times in my life that I can look back and see some of...
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Friday, September 20, 2013

Stop Me

An old love from the past had come back into my life.  It was an unresolved issue that haunted me most of my adult life.  He had joined the military and never came back . . . well, not until many years after I became a widow.  We had a second chance for a future together when he...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Gift of Anger

You know the feeling. It's that rage you get when someone cuts you off on the highway; the one where you just want to floor it and flip the bird. Anger is a corrosive emotion that can run off with your mental and physical health. So do you hold it in? Or do you let it all hang out? Yet, anger doesn't...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Happiness Never Forgets You

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit,  never completely forget about it.  Jacques Prévert  A new blogging friend's post made me think about those times of grief, depression, anxiety and restlessness from way too many deaths of family and friends in a short period of time....
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Saturday, February 5, 2011

Frying Pan Moments

Doesn't the image and  the phrase itself conjure up  all kinds of thoughts in your head? We've all had those times when we have had the  urge to literally whack someone with a frying pan. One of my new favorite blogs, Friko's World goes into an aspect of "frying...
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Race of life

It is too much to do in too little time . . . and the biggest culprit in stealing our peace of mind which triggers stress. Been there and done that . . . over and over again in my life. The race of life, often referred as “the rat race,” is a vicious cycle until you learn to slow down. The longer...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Transition and fear

“Cause you could spend your life Lookin’ for your own reflection Time could blur the lines Between what’s real And what’s projected Had I known what I lost? What I gained, what it’d cost I’d still give what remains To be myself again”from the song Be Myself Again by Donna Summer My emotions have been...
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