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"The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

Marianne Williamson

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Message of the Week

These messages are meant to be a gift, to touch someone. I am always amazed how when I write about a topic (usually inspired by something going on in life) that so many people write back asking how I knew what they were going through and needed to hear. I believe that is because as human beings we are all dealing with the same challenges and fears as anyone else. The circumstances may look different, but we are all experiencing the same thing. And we all need to be reminded that Optimism makes a big difference.

Pessimists Beware on...

Self-Expressions' Birthday

2/22/04

...On Self-Expression's Birthday

I love birthdays in general, but today is a VERY special birthday for me. It is a birthday of self-expression. While Pessimists Beware messages first took shape in 1999, February 22, 2003 was the day www.pessimistsbeware.com was born. When that happened, a huge part of the passion and purpose that lived within me finally lived outside of me. It has been a joy to have this vehicle of self expression exist in the world. Thank you for being a part of that.

What passion and purpose lives inside you that you can give birth to?

A very special thank you to Dave Love and Barbara Remik for making this birthday possible.

"The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us.

Marianne Williamson

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is."

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) American Phsycologist

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) German Novelist

"Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly."

James Russell Lowell

"The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette."

Henry S. Hoskins

I"Look with favor upon a bold beginning. "

Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC)

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

Thomas Paine 1737-1809 American Political Theorist

"It was on that road and at that hour that I first became aware of my own self, experienced an inexpressible state of grace, and felt one with the first breath of air that stirred, the first bird, and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round."

Colette

Gabrielle
A Stand for Inspiration, Empowerment, Action & Optimism
gabrielle@pessimistsbeware.com
www.pessimistsbeware.com

From the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Inspiration - To bring out or about. To influence, move or guide.
Empowerment - Give authority or power to.
Action - The manner or method of performing.
Optimism - An inclination to anticipate the best possible outcome of actions or events. A doctrine that this world is the best possible world.
 

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