Memorygirls - The Matrix Reloaded

My Meels in Heals books (for friends' birthdays) came this morning, and it's a lovely book, well worth it

Welcome back MG - really interesting to hear about your digital detox!

Love the quotes Fantasia.. I used to regularly park in a car park where the ticket machine had a notice that said "change is possible".. always made me smile

I agree with you Bitsy, the computer is a great link if you don't see a lot of people, have days like this, and can well remember the Mums at the School Gate clique *shudders :eek:.
My OH works away a lot and the 'puter is a life saver sometimes, especially since i joined the Matrix.


Some more inspirationals to be going on with:-

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.” – E. E. Cummings
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” – Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
“Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.” – Unknown
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.” – Lao-Tzu
“It’s not what you are that holds you back, It’s what you think you’re not.” – Denis Waitley
“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves” – Nathaniel Branden
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.”
- Sonya Friedman
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.” – Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer
“All things splendid have been achieved by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton
“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.” – Edwin Elliot
“Believe in your dreams and they may come true; believe in yourself and they will come true” – Anonymous
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” – Plato
“It is not our abilities that show what we truly are…it is our choices.” – Dumbledore
“Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.” -Thaddeus Golas
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.” – Michael J. Fox
“You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.” – Ram Dass
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” – Kurt Cobain
“It’s not your job to like me…it’s MINE!” – Byron Katie
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Until you make peace with who you are, you’ll never be content with what you have” – Doris Mortman
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.” – Ethel Barrett
“The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.” – Joseph Wood Krutch
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance” – Oscar Wilde

A bit less inspiring but it made me laugh when I saw it on a Birthday card DD! sent to DH last week

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone

Robsmum & Souk so sorry to hear your news - as others have said there is nothing like that sort of short, sharp shock to make you take a long hard look at what is REALLY important.

Welcome back MG - it sounds like you have come out of your digital detox thoroughly refreshed.

Fantasia Sounds like you and lovely-Leyla are settling in very well together, I'm glad of it! I also love your funny quotes!

Dr Daffs - :T:T:T for your :j:j:j moment!

I shall have a lengthy To Do list for tomorrow I think - but thankfully the means to achieve some of it are in place better than they have been for some time as we have finally got around to sorting out our internet connection on the desktop PC - the biggest difference for me is I am a lot more productive than when I am using the laptop - not sure why but I certainly notice the difference. The issue with the internet connection was as simple as needing a wireless device to connect to the router - but we'd been putting off just buying the thing and getting it done. We were at Staples on Sunday as I wanted to check the price of their envelopes (expensive!) and decided just to finally get on and buy the thing. MrEH set it up the same day and it's running brilliantly! :j Another of those little things that takes more time and effort to faff about thinking about than just to get on and sort out.