Welcome back to No Whining Wednesdays, the only day of the week where you do not get to whine, complain, or criticize. New to NWW? Click Here for more information on what this segment is all about.
Today’s inspiring word is on self-pity. We all need to vent at some point in our lives, we need to communicate our feelings and let it all out sometimes. We all feel down, depressed, and out of it sometimes. However, at what point does this get out of hand? Today, try not to complain by staying away from feeling sorry for yourself. Some quotes to inspire you:
“In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, ‘Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.”
– Howard Schultz
“I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
– D.H. Lawrence
“Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”
– Helen Keller
“Self pity will destroy relationships, it’ll destroy anything that’s good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself.” -Stephen Fry
“Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you’re hurting.”
– Paul Monette
“He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn’t work. It wasn’t just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that–it didn’t work.”―Gray Paulsen
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Your post gave me a giggle, and a great reason to check myself and hear if I was whining inside or out. Not everyone whines to the world, but they sure cut lose in their head. I’m’ not much of a whiner because I like to use my Energy wisely. That isn’t the way to do it. How do I keep from whining? I live the life I love at least %80 percent of the time. The other I give over to living on this planet, and having to deal. I also prefer to keep myself in service to others that truly have something they could be whining about, but aren’t. Example: Persons with some form of dementia.
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Great no-whining strategy! I love being of service to others as well. There’s a natural peace that comes from encouraging and inspiring others.
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