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Inspiration is important, so we at counsellors and life coaching online would like to share the following inspirational quotes. These quotes are chosen and offered as inspirations, I hope that they speak to you at the right time and that you may gain some strength in the very moment you need it. These Quotes are updated most days, so please come back and see us again. If you have a favourite quote or Inspiring story and would like to share it on these pages, please email it to me at the following address.
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Thank you for visiting my website counsellors online. Paul Parkin, online counsellor, therapist and life coach.
"Give a man a fish - feed him for a day  Teach a man to fish - feed him for life". Given the right tools we can all feed our mind and body, seek the knowledge to make it happen.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. 
Age is a state of mind, and you Can change your mind! “We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”
"I will never be old. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am". 
"it is the desire to walk that creates the path. 
“It is no feat to travel the smooth road”.
"In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing." Share what you have learned with your fellow Humans.
"If yesterday you didn't get around to creating the life you want, the good news is you can start today, go on, live the life you want". We always have a second chance.
“So many of us are too hard on ourselves for what we didn’t accomplish or what we should have done. The first step is to forgive yourself for all the things you didn’t do that you should have, and all the things that you did do that you shouldn’t have”. Love yourself first.
"Anyone can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out". Win the small battles first.
"see the world and it's people with your heart not your eyes, the image will be more authentic". Written by Paul Parkin.
"If you can be patient in one moment of anger, you will escape one hundered days of sorrow".
"Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots." Live in the whole world, not just your own.
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." 
 "Life should not be measured by the number of breaths that we take, but by the moments that take our breath away".
"The only journey is the journey within". We travel many roads on our journey's - sometimes we will feel lost.
"If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old". 
 "Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow".
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
"If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves". You are unique in the universe, celebrate that - you are special!
Life and then Wave – like a River. 
It began as a trickle in some obscure wilderness, winding its way through fields and valleys it finds strength and depth and becomes strong. Twisting and turning, trying to find the easiest route, it breathes life into village, town and city, creating life along its banks. People have a need and a want to be near it, to settle close by. It has become a mighty force, creator of life in itself, it cuts a new path and no longer follows the optimum way, this thing is strong and yet gentle too. It becomes provider, it is important to whole communities and individuals too. Children love the feel of it on their skin. The two faces of this wonderous living entity combine to make it eternal, as miraculously as the trickle began, it disappears into a new place, where it will go on and on and on, the trickle becomes a wave and it goes on spreading its uniqueness as far as the eye can see. The next time you see or hear a wave, remember it was once a trickle.  Paul Parkin. This was written in memory of Jamie Vayro and dedicated to his mum Tracey, his friends and family.
"when all the world was there to scan and time ran".  Waste not one minute.
"Some people walk in the rain - other's just get wet".
People come into your life for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. When you figure out which it is, you know exactly what to do. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed outwardly or inwardly. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally, or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend, and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrong doing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away. Sometimes they act up or out and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled; their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and it is now time to move on. When people come into your life for a SEASON, it is because your turn has come to share, grow, or learn. They may bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it! It is real! But, only for a season. LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons; those things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation. Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person/people (anyway); and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.
"In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
"A year from now you may wish you had started today." 
Carpe Diem - Sieze the day.
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life... And that is why I succeed". - Michael Jordan. Believe in your self.
"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing". Muhammad Ali. 
"Who are we? The answer to this question is not only one of the tasks but THE task of science".
 "Astronomers estimate that there are at least 100 billion stars in the Milky Way" ('our' galaxy) and "It is estimated that 100 billion galaxies are in principle visible to our modern instruments." In all of this YOU are Unique, how special must you be.
"Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself." Work on the "Self" is the best work you can ever do.
 "Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left?There are still five - because there's a difference between deciding and doing."
"The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others". If you don't respect yourself, how can anyone else respect you? Raise your Self Esteem Now.
Hate and Anger. Holding Anger is a poison, it eats you from inside. We think that hating is a weapon that attacks the person who harmed us, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do, we do to ourselves.
"You can destroy your NOW by worrying about tomorrow."
"Let what is past flow away downstream." If you hold onto it, it will eat away at your soul and drown you.
"If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else". 
"Every breath you take contains atoms forged in the blistering furnaces deep inside stars. Every flower you pick contains atoms blasted into space by stellar explosions that blazed brighter than a billion suns. Every book you read contains atoms blown across unimaginable gulfs of space and time by the wind between the stars." You are a part of something very special, that makes you special too!
"I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness". Maslow
"There is always a little more toothpaste in the tube. Think about it." 
"We live in a world that has seen Superman, in the person of Christopher Reeve, rendered quadriplegic, and a man who is quadriplegic, in the person of Stephen Hawking, rendered Superman." Incredible people can achieve Incredible things, and we are ALL Incredible!
 "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her - But once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game". Life is the greatest game of all.
“We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.”
What is Life? "It is the flash of a firefly in the night, It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime, It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset." ... Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease a herb to cure it, and every person a mission. This is the Indian theory of existence.
 "What an elder sees sitting - the young can’t see standing". With the advancement of years, comes wisdom which is obscure to the young. If you need good counsel, ask an older person first.
"Common sense is acquired knowledge. Unlike instinct, you are not born with it". Common sense is unique for each individual, and linked to our individual experience, therefore, it is not common at all.
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beggining of wisdom".
"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway".
"As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might".
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