Hi All,

Over on my personal thread, I made a post where I outlined my plan to come out on Facebook. (https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,228563.msg2036273.html#msg2036273) My account has been dormant since about 2009, and out of the blue I started making posts of quotes, without comment, that apply to our situation. It's already raising eyebrows, since it's been so long since my last post, and after the first four quotes, people are starting to notice a trend. I haven't answered any Messenger messages yet, and not sure I'm going to. I plan to post a quote about every 12 hours until I decide the pressure is high enough, and maybe I've gotten the point across enough, to go ahead and make my announcement.

I had collected quotes that seemed appropriate, and I thought maybe y'all would be interested in reading them. I had planned to dole them out a little at a time, but I think I'll just dump the lot here right now. The first four are in the order I posted them on my FB page, and the rest are in no particular order.

Enjoy!

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
-Steve Jobs

To be nobody-but-yourself – in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
-ee cummings

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
- Joseph Campbell

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
-Janis Joplin

Wonder is remembering and acknowledging the uniqueness of our inner self. Of all the people in the world there is only one of each of us. That is a wonder in itself. And it follows then that not only is each of us wonderful, each of us is a wonder. Situations and events are temporary. Wonder is perpetual. And so are you.
- Gail Pursell Elliott

Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
- Harvey Fierstein

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness.
- Alejandro Jodorowsky

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
- Dr Seuss, from Happy Birthday to You!

The real you does not need fixing. Only the surface layer of you seems to need improvement. Your innate wholeness has never been damaged except in your thoughts. You have been taught that life is a problem, you are defective, and you must face and overcome an endless series of issues and obstacles before you can be enough. None of that is true. You are not a black hole that needs to be filled. You are a light that needs to be shined.
- Alan Cohen

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you. Heck, each minute. Just get going. Just do it. Just say it. With love. All else will take care of itself.
- Neale Donald Walsch

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr Seuss

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
- Steve Jobs

I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.
- Richard Bach

Don't Settle.
- Steve Jobs

Recognize that to be happy, you must live the life that you truly want to live. It's your life and you are the only one who can truly determine what is right for you.
- The Daily Guru

We do not make friends, we recognize them.
- G Henrichs

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
- Walter Winchell

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Tad Williams

You don't experience anxiety unless you're attached to a thought that isn't true for you. It's that simple.
- Byron Katie

You gain strength, courage, and confidence in every experience in which you stop and look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
- Dale Carnegie

Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- Buckminster Fuller

Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
- Alan Alda

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.
- Cherrie Moraga

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
- Marcus Annaeus Seneca

This one made me cry:
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
- Maya Angelou

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I'll be posting the same joyful avatar picture there as I have here, and will include one or both of these quotes:

You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, and show the world all the love in your heart... You're gonna find, yes you will, that you're beautiful as you feel.
- Carole King

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

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Finally, I wrote one myself, which is likely the last one I post before I make my announcement:

Don't be afraid to shed the weight of those who don't support you. As in aviation, you must add lightness to fly.
Stephanie Rhapsody XXX

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I hope you were able to draw inspiration, strength, and wisdom from them as I did.

Stephanie

    Great list, not sure I can top it. Surprised no one else has contributed to the thread though. Several of those gave me a warm fuzzy. Especially love the Dr Seuss ones.

HUGS!

Hmm. Apparently Tapatalk only shows the last half of the post, at least on iOS devices. If the post you see doesn't start with "Hi All" you're not seeing a big chunk of it. Ask Tapatalk to show the web view to see it all.

Sorry 'bout that, Chief

Steph

Quote from: JennyBear on October 11, 2017, 02:35:00 PMGreat list, not sure I can top it. Surprised no one else has contributed to the thread though. Several of those gave me a warm fuzzy. Especially love the Dr Seuss ones.

As of this writing, I just posted it 25 minutes ago. I'm sure we'll see other great quotes soon!

Steph

... And cue the ocular leakage.

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Quote from: Steph2.0 on October 11, 2017, 02:50:01 PM
As of this writing, I just posted it 25 minutes ago. I'm sure we'll see other great quotes soon!

Steph

    Facepalm, missed that part. Guess I need to pay attention to post times before I open my big mouth, lol. Though that reply may subconsciously be due to an important thread of mine on here that got zero replies in either topic category that I posted it in. As it slowly progress ever downward on the thread lists, many might overlook it, and the important information it contains. So I hate seeing good posts die due to inactivity.

HUGS!

Quote from: meganjames2 on October 11, 2017, 02:56:30 PM
... And cue the ocular leakage.

Sorry, Megan. Me too, the first couple of times. But it's the good kind...

Steph

Oh, wow, what a great thread!  I'm sorry I missed this when it came out.  I'm afraid I don't have any brilliant quotes of my own to share at the moment (but I'll look around).  I'm totally stealing the Joseph Campbell one for my sig quote, though!

Quote from: The Flying Lemur on October 23, 2017, 12:06:09 PM
Oh, wow, what a great thread!  I'm sorry I missed this when it came out.  I'm afraid I don't have any brilliant quotes of my own to share at the moment (but I'll look around).  I'm totally stealing the Joseph Campbell one for my sig quote, though!

Help yourself, dude! I'd like nothing better than to see them scattered all over Susan's.

Steph