Transitioning: Thoughts for Today

[Kellam]

I'm more than a woman, more than a man, I feel larger than life, you must understand. - Lunachicks "Mr. Lady"

[LizMarie]

I enjoy these other thoughts. Part of setting the tone for my thinking each day is a few minutes of this sort of meditation, reflecting on the positive and how I can make that work going forward.



"You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try." - Dolly Parton

"The worst distance between two people is misunderstanding." - Anon

"When you try to control everything, you enjoy nothing. Sometimes you just need to relax, breathe, let go, and live in the moment." - Anon

"It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going the wrong direction." - Diane Grant

"Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family." - Chris Diaz

[LizMarie]

"Some things are meant to happen, just not meant to be. Some things are meant to come into your life, just not meant to stay." - Trent Shelton

"Be thankful for the bad things in life. For they opened your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before." - Anon

"I can choose to let it define me, confine me, refine me, outshine me, or I can choose to leave it behind me." - Anon

"Learn to be alone and to like it. There is nothing more freeing and empowering than learning to like your own company." - Mandy Hale

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

[ChiGirl]

"Coming out as transgender is like jumping out of a plane without a parachute only to discover you have wings."   - Amanda Simpson

[LizMarie]

"There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside yourself." - Miyamoto Musashi

"Each day is a new life. Seize it." - David Guy Powers

"Strength doesn't come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn't." - Rikki Rogers

"I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don't." - Neila Rey

"The biggest mistake you could ever make is being too afraid to make one." - Anon

[islandgirl]

Liz Marie - I love these quotes. I refer back to them when I feel stuck (which has been happening a lot lately).

Please keep them coming. Thanks

[LizMarie]

That's the whole intent! I found that finding a few good positive affirmations each day, and meditating on them during the day, helps keep me focused positively, and looking forward, not backwards. I've had an easier transition than some, with a very supportive employer, so I am lucky in that regard. I've had personal losses, especially of family, but they made those choices, not me. I'm glad that these can help others keep a positive outlook.



"When someone walks away from you, it's not the end of your story. It's the end of their part in your story." - Anon

"Failure: It can destroy you or it can make you so freakin' mad that you work even harder to become the winner you know you are." - Anon

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live." - John Adams

"Blame anchors us into the past; a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us into the future." Bryant McGill

"The past is a good place to visit, but certainly not a good place to stay." - Anon

"Don't let the doubt of others stop you. Walk your own path." - Anon

[LizMarie]

"A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great month which becomes a great year which becomes a great life." - Mandy Hale

"Always trust your instincts. Do what feels right." - Anon

"There's no reason to look back when you have so much to look forward to." - Anon

"Just because something isn't happening for you right now doesn't mean it will never happen." - Anon

"If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you'll see obstacles." - Wayne Dyer

"Don't be an extra in your own movie!" - Bob Proctor

[LizMarie]

"The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had." -Anon

"Determine what you want and why you want it. Once you understand what's important, you can utilize your passions and achieve anything." - Brooke Griffin

"Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning, an opportunity for success." - Oprah Winfrey

"The worst thing you can do to yourself is judge yourself through the eyes of others." - Anon

"Sometimes burning bridges isn't a bad thing. It prevents you from going back to a place you should never have been in the first place." - Anon

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life." ― Abbie Hoffman

[LizMarie]

"If someone shows you their true colors, don't try to repaint them." - Anon

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have." - Eckhart Tolle

"Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation, then deciding what you're going to do about it." ― Kathleen Casey Theisen

"Be wise enough to walk away from the nonsense around you." - Anon

"Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket." - Anon

[Kellam]

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet. -Frederick Buechner

[LizMarie]

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." - Anthony Robbins

"Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed will never pass again." - Anon

"Be brave with your life." - Anon

"At some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life." - Anon

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." - Bobby Unser

[Zoetrope]

''You can be anything you want to be - just turn yourself into anything that you think you could ever be''

Queen - Innuendo

[Kellam]

"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein

[LizMarie]

"You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it." - Anon

"Don't give up. The beginning is always the hardest." - Anon

"You can have what you want, do what you dream, and brave what you fear, if you first see it done in your mind." - Anon

"Progress, no matter how small, is always something to be proud of." - Anon

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." - Nelson Mandela

[LizMarie]

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

"There will be many chapters in your life. Don't get lost in the one you're in now." - Anon

"Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared." ― Eddie V. Rickenbacker

"The greatest gift you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance." - Brian Tracy

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line." - Lucille Ball

[LizMarie]

"The best way to predict your future is to create it." ― Peter F. Drucker (Note: Drucker actually said this, not Lincoln.)

"Your comfort zone keeps expanding every time you get out of your comfort zone." - Anon

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran

"You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love." - Anon

"Memories are simply moment that refuse to be ordinary." - Diane Keaton

[LizMarie]

"I don't trust words, I trust actions." ― Ain Eineziz

"Dreaming or doing is a choice that will mea the difference between failure or success." - Anon

"The struggle you are in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don't give up!" - Anon

"It's never too late to start over. if you weren't happy with yesterday, try something different today. Don't stay stuck, do better." - Alex Elle

"Use your comfort zones to rest in, not to live in. Use them consciously to relax and restore yoour energy as you mentally prepare for your next challenge."

[LizMarie]

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know." - Pema Chodron

"If you want something you never had, you have to do something you never did." - Anon

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them." - Maya Angelou

"Life will test you to see how determined you are." - Billy Cox

[LizMarie]

"If you don't let go of the wrong people, the right people won't show up." - Joel Osteen

"I want to live, not just survive." - Anon

"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things." ― Henry Miller

"You cannot change the people around you but you can change the people you choose to be around." ― Semanyenzi Richard

"Action is the key to all success." ― Pablo Picasso