Call them mantras, affirmations, meditations or sayings; some days a few positive words can lift you up and get you through a rough patch.
We asked you, our MamaBake community, for the words that raise your spirits, and you answered.
- “Remember, give 100% in everything you do, except when giving blood”
- “It’s just a bad day, not a bad life”.
- “God is the perfect accountant, I only have to worry about keeping my books clean!”
- “If it is to be, it is up to me”
- “You can’t change the wind, but you can adjust the sails.”
- “Be yourself ’cause everyone else is taken”
- “This too shall pass.”
- “Don’t look back you’re not going that way.”
- “Grow where you are planted”
- “To get where you wanna be, you gotta do what you gotta do”
- “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming….” ~ Dory ‘Finding Nemo’
- “Fight battles big enough to matter and small enough to win.”
- “Never see a need and do nothing.”
- “Count your blessings. You may be richer than you think!”
- “Love makes the world go ’round”
- “If it’s for you, it’ll no’ go passed you”
- “You’re no’ as green as you’re cabbage lookin'” (my personal fave, that I have NO IDEA of its meaning!)
- “A man on horseback wouldn’t notice” (wise words………perhaps a kilt is required to work it out!)
- “Don’t throw away the substance for the froth”
- “The purpose of life is to get better at knowing what makes you happy.”
- “Be with what is.”
- “Blessed are the flexible”
- “Everyone is a friend until they prove otherwise”
- “You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time.”
- “You get what you get and you don’t get upset.”
- “What will be will be.”
- “Laughter is the best medicine”
- “…and I simply decided to be happy again”
- “Where ever you are, be all there.” ~ Jim Elliot
- “Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” ~ Apollinaire
