10 Inspirational Quotes from Woody Allen to help you

10 Inspirational Quotes from Woody Allen to help you when life has you feeling like you are losing control.

Don't you often wonder how it seems like some people can always be in a state of indifference? Nothing seems to bother these people. How do they do it? Are they just lucky and find they do not have to suffer through all of the stressful situations other like us find ourselves in? These special people have learned to let go of those things that they can not control and to find a little humour in every day life.

Humour can be a life saver. Although it is very hard to often look for the humour in a situation when all you would like to do is scream, or cry until there is no tomorrow. It is a practice we must learn how to live if we care to keep our sanity from crumbling.

Here are a few quotes from one of the most famous funny men known in the world, Woody Allen.

Woody Allen has this to say:

1. "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." It sounds good to me, I mean the practicality of all things does involve money but it doesn't have to take an arm and a leg to get it.

2. "I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government." 'Nuff said.

3. "There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?" This happens to be one of the classic ones. I mean the issue about life's little problems isn't all that bad, until 'he' shows up.

Sure, relationships can get complicated, or does have its complications that probably any author about relationships is bound to discover it soon. We follow what our heart desires, unless you're talking about the heart as in the heart that
pump blood throughout your body.

4. "Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions." And if you want more, just keep on asking!

5. "A fast word about oral contraception. I asked a girl to go to bed with me, she said 'no'." It sounds, 'practical', I think.

And when it comes to everyday life, he really knows how to make the best out of every possible scenario, and it doesn't involve a lawsuit if he strikes a nerve.

6. "Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats." I never had a boat in my bathtub before. Just staring at it while soaking in hot water makes me seasick already.

7. "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens." If it rains, it pours.

8. "I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose." It could get worse when you're guzzling on beer… or mouthwash, and it happened to me once!

9. "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." At least he doesn't smite us with lightning, and I'm thankful for that.

And despite of what may happen to all of us in the next ten, twenty, or even thirty years, I guess we all have to see things in a different kind of light and not just perspective. I can't seem to imagine life without any piece of wisdom that could guide us. Whether we're religious or not, it takes more courage to accept your fears and learn how to deal with them is all that matters when it comes to even just getting along.

And to sum things up, here is the last nugget of wisdom to go by… however, whenever, and wherever we may be.

10. "The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."

Surviving the Empty Nest Syndrome

As parents who are busy raising our young children, we often don’t think of the time down the road that will come when we no longer have our little ones with us in our home. These parents often feel forgotten and I would like to mention a little something to make them feel respected, honored and aprreciated even when their home is now empty. As a parent your job is never over, even when your children do decide to leave and go live on their own. It just takes a little adjusting to the change in your surroundings.

In this day and age parents are experiencing the “Empty Nest” syndrome earlier on than when a child may go off to college or live on their own. With parents separating now due to conflicts, a child often goes off to live with one parent, leaving the other parent having to learn to cope with the changes of an “empty nest”.

There are many things we can do to escape the feelings of loss and loneliness we may be be forced to face when changes to our lives leave us unprepared.

You need to remind yourself of when you were younger and full of all the interests that kept you busy. Pick up that old hobby, learn a new hobby, join a community centre to learn a new skill, and to also meet new friends. Go out to dinner more, try a new flavor or international dish you’ve never dared to try. Try some volunteer work, or get a job if you have been a stay at home mom for most of the last years while your children were growing. It is easier and more affordable to start an online business now that it ever was. Try writing that book you’ve been thinking about for the last ten years and never started. Join some of the social network sites like http://facebook.com or http://myspace.com. You can play games, meet new people, watch videos, buy items in the marketplace for great prices, and more.
The important thing is to find your own interests to make your life more complete now that you find your time is not being used in the same way as it used to be, and also it will add interesting experiences and adventures you never thought you would have.
Remember that no matter where your children may be, no matter how busy they get and never seem to call, you will always be their mom or dad. They know where they came from and who loves them the most, and they will always appreciate all you have done (even if they never tell you with words). When you get lonely, send them an email, leave them a voice mail, or even mail them a letter or card, just to say “I Love You”. Before you know it they will be bringing over the pitter patter of the newest little feet for you to learn to adore and cherish

I did some research today. Did you know that there are millions of people looking for info online for every topic out there? Who knew the internet would become such a popular tool?

You need to be careful though when you are researching online. You can not always believe what you read. This is a shame because that is the whole reason people should be writing articles and reports. Nowadays people are more interested in writing just for traffic that they do not care so much if everything is accurate.

I remember talking to a doc about something I had read online. He said it was total crap. I had found that same information on 4 other sites so it made me wonder where the information was originating from. It is possible that the doc I talked to didn't know himself. I have had just as many problems with doctors who do not know what they are talking about. I had to get 6 diagnosises in 5 years for my gall bladder issue before I was finally checked for the right thing and it was taken out of me. If I had been able to find out earlier I may have just been able to have laser surgery instead of the removal of a gall bladder.

My point here today is, it is good to educate yourself when you need to know something but always find a way to double check and sometimes even triple check something, especially if it could be a life or death situation or have a big impact on your life.

So I have been living my dreams and keeping my vision alive of becoming known as an author for children's stories. I am feeling so good these days even though I am still yet to sell more than one book. I know it is a process and it will take some time but I am moving forward even if it is only one baby step at a time. Since I have carried this dream for 25 years as I have untiringly plugged away at story after story and idea upon idea(whether still in the making or not), I am not about to give up. I had my first piece published when I was only a child and the fire has never died. My passion for writing has kept me sane through all the bad times when I have been tempted to give up and stop caring. It has been my anchor to keep me rooted in humanity when the world threatened to change me for the worse.

I was thinking about what seems to be popular these days. As I sit at home and keep the t.v. turned on while I work I listen to the shows, commercials, and themes that play out on the air. During the morning and up until about 4pm I am barraged by a series of education advertisements calling for people at home to rethink their life goals, and to give education in various fields a shot to change their lives for the better.

In the evening there are commercials involving families. Get a better car or truck, get a better home,or insurance to protect your family's future. Why does everything marketed seem to imply that the life one lives now is not complete unless you can get something more? How are we to be content if we are brainwashed into thinking we always need something else?

In the late night all the commercials are about love, dating and intimacy(and just plain lust). Therefore all the single souls out there get to feel worthless or incomplete because they don't have someone special in their lives. I'm sorry but I am single and have been for almost 2 years now. I am rather enjoying it and don't appreciate the masses trying to make me feel like I have to have a counterpart or I am less of a woman. It is insulting.

I have a good life. I am in the process of running my own business. I have a loving family. 2 gorgeous,smart, well behaved children, and a home in a town I feel safe in. I have an education, am intelligent, well mannered, and pretty cute. Why do I need to be searching for more? Why can't I just enjoy what I have? Don't you feel the same? I mean there is nothing wrong with trying to better your life. I am not trying to debate that. I just don't think we should get so lost up in the pursuit that we lose what good we do have and take for granted the things we shouldn't.
It is way too easy to do. Here's to love, happiness and the pursuit of joy within your own soul!

Today I would like to discuss the effects of low self esteem. I, in the past have suffered from a severe case of it which it has been a long struggle to come back from. Low self esteem affects every part of your life. It compounds after each incident until it is all consuming. Unless treated it could lead to chronic depression, and in some cases even death. It is hard to raise your self esteem but you have to start with a positive attitude and self actualizing affirmations.

Here is something I found on a site I thought would help.
Self-esteem, simply put, is the high regard and good feeling that I have about myself. It is my "feel good" about being me. It is extremely important for children to develop self-esteem in order to prepare themselves for their adult life. Individuals with healthy self-esteem will not fail in life because the only way a human being can fail is to self reject.

Healthy self-esteem is probably the single most important thing that we teach children. Self-esteem is not always healthy. We can hold ourselves in high regard and feel good about ourselves for the unhealthy reasons. It is not unusual for the school bully to feel good about himself for being able to beat up everyone else in the class. Sometimes children and adults feel good about themselves for getting even in a mean and vindictive way.

Additionally some people base their feelings of high regard on their successes and achievements. This attachment of worth to performance is actually a set up for a loss of self-esteem. No human being is able to perform at a level where they never have a drop off in performance. If you have attached your worth to your success then you will loose your self-esteem when you experience a drop in performance.

And yet most people believe that successful achievement is the basis of self-esteem. Self-esteem should not be based on what we do, but rather, who we think we are. After all I am not what I do, I am the precious human being that does it. If I make a mistake I am not the mistake, but rather the awesome learning machine that is capable of correcting mistakes. Self-esteem is ultimately an intrapersonal event that is fed and nourished and influenced and affected by external events.

Self-esteem is all about my relationship with my self and is the foundation of all relationships. If I hold myself in high regard and feel good about myself and others care about me, then I know they are people of good judgment. If I hold myself in low regard and I don't feel good about me and others care about me I know they must be stupid or maybe they are just using me. Or maybe they are forced to care about me due to external circumstances. Low self-esteem is often the root cause of interpersonal, social, and family problems.

In order to develop healthy self-esteem one must learn to accept the responsibility for developing it within one's self. I must learn to accept that I am 100% responsible for my own thoughts, feelings, and actions. Nobody can make me think anything I do not choose to think, feel anything I do not choose to feel, or do anything I don't choose to do.To achieve healthy self-esteem I must accept that I cannot control anything outside of myself. And I am in total control of the things inside of myself.

I must learn to face and accept unwanted reality with the awareness that that unwanted reality does not have to make me feel bad unless I choose to let it. The single most important thing to learn in order to achieve high self-esteem is to willing accept what IS. I cannot change what is. But I can change how I cope with it. The ultimate experience of self-esteem is too experience my self the same way my parents experienced me at my birth. They loved me unconditionally and knew I was a precious miracle, even though I certainly had never accomplished a thing. They loved me unconditionally as the miraculous embodiment of the gift of life. When I can experience myself that same way, then I have truly experienced healthy self-esteem.

I've been thinking about the ways we measure our lives worth. In todays society the emphasis on gaining riches and having everything that is promoted as "must haves to be a somebody" are constantly in our faces until we are brainwashed to believe that it must be true. Since we can't take anything with us when we pass away why does it matter so much?

Like a child at Christmas the thing we want so bad soon grows old in the pursuit of something else that may make us more fulfilled. The constant struggle to find what we so desperately feel will be the answer becomes all consumming. We lose sight of what is really important and lasting in this life. Look at all the chaos in the world. The third world countries that long for an extra piece of bread. The people who lose their life and belongings to natural disasters. I would be severely ticked off too if I had spent my life working to gain as much as I could only to have it washed away with the fury of mother nature.

But sometimes it seems to be the only thing that makes us remember the truly important things in life. Our families,friends and loved ones. I know I have recently discussed this topic before but I am deeply bothered by the shallowness of humanity in todays day and age. I hate turning on the t.v to see another disaster, or another missing child, another murder or suicide. What has happened to us?

Why can no one seem to stay married, with the divorce rate increasing every day? I rememeber years back when you were embarassed to say your parents weren't together. Now it seems unbelievable when you hear someones' parents are together still after more than five years. Is modern technology to blame? Is it because everything is so much easier to attain that we have learned to take everything for granted? We lose so much in the process. I long to go back to the caveman days where the man went out and found food for the family.

The woman cooked and cleaned and made clothes. Sure there wasn't much to that way of life but it was all about survival and maintaining unity for ones own. It was not filled with unsatisfied wants, or unrealistic goals. It was simple and complete. I am not debating that there haven't been many benefits that have helped in modern day society with everything new we have accomplished in our growth as mankind;it's just that sometimes you have to wonder if we truly are so much more better off in the psychological aspect of it. Well I will leave you with that thought to dwell on. Here's to hoping man will learn the errors of his way and seek to rectify them before the damage is irrepairable.