Another 100 Days!
On my 100 day milestones I reflect on my quit journey and do my best to reflect on where I've been and glimpse where I might be going nEXt! This day my theme is having the Courage to Live Well! Here are some affirmations on Courage that I find appropriate to my Celebration!
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow. ~Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. ~Samuel Johnson
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ~Ambrose Redmoon
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. ~Dodinsky
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. ~Winston Churchill
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. ~Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. ~Mignon McLaughlin
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one. ~Lauren Raffo
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. ~C.S. Lewis
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. ~John F. Kennedy
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ~Raymond Lindquist
Courage, in the final analysis, is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence. ~Kurt Goldstein
No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage. ~Henry S. Haskins
For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived. ~John F. Kennedy
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ~Dorothy Bernard
Courage is to feel the daily daggers of relentless steel and keep on living. ~Douglas Malloch
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die. ~Robert Cody
When I was diagnosed with COPD, I received a lot of messages from people - everything from Be assertive! Make the most of what you have left to You're nothing more than a Zombie, the Living Dead, you might as well give up on living and smoke yourself into the grave! After EXamining these options, I chose to live! I took my last puff 6 days later, joined this site, listened to the long-term quitters and put my all into making the most of my life! I barely got started with my new Smoke FREE lifestyle and for the first time in my life, I was laif-off! So instead of running head-long into self-destruction, I used many of the lessons I had learned as an EXer to help me focus on getting a new job! In my case, it meant that at the age of 52, I had to change careers, start at the bottom of the food chain, face not knowing anything and open myself up to learning from scratch. 10 Months into my quit journey, I lost my Best Friend and GodMother! I was devastated and left without my anchor! I allowed myself to grieve openly and to share myself like I'd never done before! (If you haven't noticed, I most often hide myself behind articles and affirmations (almost did that again today!) The place she left open in my heart can never really be filled but I've learned to live, I 've learned to get out of bed each day even when I think I can't and courageously take a shower, brush my teeth, and walk out the front door. Fake it till you make it! What a road map for courage! Sharing on BecomeanEx has EXposed me to many different people all with one goal - living life abundantly smoke FREE! Some of my dearest friends here have unfortunately not stayed on track. Some have disappeared and some have even passed away! That's the risk you take when you friend so many people! I'm learning to live with it but it isn't easy!
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
M. Scott Peck
Taking the nEXt step forward takes courage, but taking that step with a smile on your face, is the Valor that comes with spiritual growth, belief in the Almighty, with true pure LOVE: LOVE of God, LOVE of self, and LOVE for our fellow human! Lord, give me the Courage to LMAO!
