@saibh I was trying to move these last two posts from Trump unraveling to the Timeline Hits section but they didn't make it.   Every time I make such moves and end up in the wrong threads, I marvel at where the posts do end up.  This one is "favorite words of wisdom." That can't be bad. :-)

 Anyway, yes, we had predictions about strange goings-on with daffodils. I counted them as hits because daffodils are coming up earlier in parts of the country as a disturbing sign of climate change. 

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”

--Julian of Norwich

These words of wisdom have gotten me through some pretty dark times.  She didn't mean that things will work out the way you want, but rather that with strength and faith, we can -- and will-- get through anything. 

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

Something good from something bad.

I have seen this happen so many times in my life, that I firmly believe it.

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change "

                                                                                                    Wayne Dwyer

This quote has helped me tremendously throughout the years being more  flexible and open minded.

@Jeanne Mayell I love Rumi too!  "

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.
And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Carpe Diem (Seize the Day)  --- Horace, Roman poet

A reminder for me to make the most of the present, rather than dwelling on the future.   

Something I also sometimes say to myself is "Be Here Now."

‘When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them’ (Maya Angelou)

My mother used to always say to me:

'Birds of a feather flock together'

And my own two cents to many executives I've supported at the Fortune 50 company I worked at for 36 years:

'No one will remember you were the Vice President of this or that, but on your gravestone it will talk about what kind of husband, father, son or brother you were (or wife, mother, daughter or sister etc.)'

@triciact

I will always remember the first time I heard Maya Angelou's words as one of those key moments in my life. I happened to be walking by an outdoor  college commencement, one day in 2011, and decided to walk up and listen to whoever was speaking.  I wandered over and stood just outside the roped off area.  A woman was walking towards me from a far. She came right up to me smiling and for an instant our eyes locked. I realized that the woman was Oprah Winfrey looking radiant and larger than life. I live in a small New England town so wasn't expecting to see her there!   She then turned and walked straight to the stage and got up there and gave the best commencement speech I'd ever heard.

During her speech which is replayed on Youtube here, around minute 13 she began giving advice she'd learned from Maya Angelou that she said would be particularly important for young women: "When people show you who they are, believe them..."...Then she paused and said, "THE FIRST TIME. Not the 20th time!" The girls in the audience erupted in a roar.  It's been a mantra to stop co-dependency that I have passed on again and again.