Favorite Inspirational Quotes

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Francois-Marie Arouet aka Voltaire

The longer we dwell on them, our misfortunes, means the longer we are giving them our attention and focus.  Anything given attention tends to grow.  I do NOT want to grow my misfortunes.  I do not want to make them larger or to attract more misfortune into my life.

Therefore I will try all kinds of things to get my mind off them.

One I have been using a lot lately as a result of journaling on this quote is to keep telling myself, “What’s done is done.  You can’t change the past.”

I also admit to myself that I can’t change other people when they aggravate me so there’s no point in dwelling on the aggravation.  What’s done is done.  Let it go and get over it.  I can’t change them.  Neither can I change my present circumstances right now that are a result of actions I took in the past.

Better to decide what I do want, concoct a plan, focus on it, and take action resulting in making the misfortunes and aggravations even more a thing of the past.  Focus and dwell on my vision of what I want, the person I want to be, and my actions I should take to get there is the way to increase the power of that vision.

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