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Inspirational Quotes to Start the Week!

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We cannot deny that these are extremely trying times.  We are stressed, worried and living in fear.  I can’t speak for anyone else, but personally, I am struggling with these fears.  I fear for the safety and health of my parents and loved ones.  I worry for my own health and protecting my family.  Every time I feel a little different, physically, I worry that might it be the virus, even though I have not been outside in five weeks.  Did my husband bring home a contaminated item from the grocery store?  How can we know that the food we are eating is safe?  These thoughts can drive us crazy.  We need to find ways to occupy our minds with positive, inspirational and calming thoughts and images.

At EC Montreal, we are doing everything we can to keep our students happy and engaged on EC Virtual.  In addition to taking their French or English online lessons, they can stay connect with us on Microsoft Teams.  They can reach out to us if they are feeling worried and they can participate in any one of our virtual activities to keep them busy.  We have virtual lunches, workouts, movie viewing parties and happy hours to look forward to.

We thought it would be nice to get this last week of April started with some inspirational quotes that we came across. These quotes are part of a column called The Wisdom Project by David Allan, editorial director of CNN Features. The series is on applying to one’s life the wisdom and philosophy found everywhere, from ancient texts to pop culture.

They get repeated and recycled over the years, sometimes over the millennia, because they contain powerful jolts of easily accessible truth, insight and perspective. “Aphorisms live because they contain human truth,”

Below are a few quotes that speak to this time of corona virus shutdowns and of health and economic fears.

President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1933 inaugural address, to a nation paralyzed in the economic fear of the Great Depression, has endured its original meaning because “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” speaks to the psychology of all panic.

Now is the time for a more scientific and analytical approach, as the physicist Marie Curie said: “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

Comedian Eddie Izzard: “I like to think of life as an adventure, like a roller coaster. It helps with the ups and downs.”

Fred Rogers: “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.” It speaks to this time as the start of a new era, without any negative connotation.

That evolution will likely lead you to look out for others in this critical time. “I shall pass this way but once; any good that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being; let me do it now,” wrote the Quaker missionary Etienne de Grellet.

And in the end, I’m going to give the last word to that singer-sage John Lennon. If you only remember one of these aphorisms, this is the one that most succinctly captures endurance, perspective and hope: “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”

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