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“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance,
and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so
large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step
outside it.”
-Ranier Maria Rilke
"Pain is the precursor to change"
"He who has strong enough why can bear with any how”
–-Friedrich Nietzsche in Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning
"Most people
live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a
very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a
very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their
soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole
bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his
little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater
our vital resources are than we had supposed."
- William James, philosopher
"If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only
step from where we are standing. If we don’t really know where we are
standing—a knowing that comes directly from the cultivation of
mindfulness—we may only go in circles, for all our efforts and
expectations."
-Wherever you go there you are. John Kabat-Zinn
“The difference between what we do, and what we are capable of doing,
would solve most of the world’s problems.”
- Mahatma Gandhi
"I
can't hear your words because they are drowned out by your actions"
-Native American Saying
"Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever"
-Lance Armstrong
"All cruelty springs from weakness."
- Seneca, Roman philosopher,
dramatist and statesman
“Fall
seven times, stand up eight.”
- Japanese Proverb
To dream anything that you want to dream. That is the beauty of the human
mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the
human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to
succeed.
"Every new beginning comes from some old beginnings end." -md
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter
their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
- William James
"The tougher the times, the more clarity you gain
about the difference between what really matters and what you only pretend
to care about"
- Author Po Bronson in Fast Company
"Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done
something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of decorous
age."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson, Heroism
"Few career choices are forever. The choice to be made is not what
you want to do with your entire career, but which next challenge would
fulfill you
-David H. Maister in 'True Professional'
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard
work and learning from failure.
- Colin Powell
"A cure isn’t always necessary, but belief in a cure is."
-Norman Cousins
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (on vision)
"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors
to live the life for which he has imagined, he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Things do not change; we change."
- Henry David Thoreau
"If you don’t like where you are, change it! You’re not a tree."
- Unknown
"Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of
one—observer and subject—making choices, living with them, recording the
effects."
- Dr. George Sheehan
"Fitness has to be fun. If it is not play there will be no fitness. Play,
you see, is where the process. Fitness is merely the product."
- Dr. George Sheehan
"Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never
reach."
- Dr. George Sheehan
"Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in
training, and some are not."
- Dr. George Sheehan
"The race is long…in the end it is only with your self."
"Happiness and high performance come to you when you choose to live your
life consistent with your highest values and your deepest beliefs."
"It is not what happens to you that determines the course of your life, it
is how you respond to what happens."
"The great secret of success is that there are no secrets of success; there
are only timeless principles that have been proven effective throughout
the centuries."
"Time management is really personal management, life management and
management of yourself."
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
- Norman Vincent Peale
I cannot change yesterday, I can only make the most of today, and look
with hope towards tomorrow.
You can control your destiny—you are more than your environment.
Sit down before fact like a child, and be prepared to give up every
preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abyss nature
leads, or you shall learn nothing.
- T.H. Huxley
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
- Pablo Pacasso
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
- Golda Meir
Planning is what you do before you do something, so when you do something
it doesn’t get all messed up.
- Christopher Robin to Pooh
Spiritual maturity begins with a true understanding of ones self.
- Mother Theresa
It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our life—it’s what we do
consistently.
Make good use of your time, because time is your life. Anything that
doesn’t move you towards your goals or make you happy is a waste of time.
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is
mightier still.
- Lao-Tsu
Love doesn’t make the world go round, but it sure makes the ride worth
while.
Integrity is what you do when no one else is around.
Successful people are willing to do what others are not.
Build your life on a solid foundation of honesty, character, integrity,
trust, love, and loyalty.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
- Sir Cecil Beaton
The most powerful sentence using only 2 letter words—If it is to be it is
up to me!
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what
you put into it.
- Oprah Winfrey
Listen to your body—do not be a blind and a deaf tenant.
- Dr. George Sheehan
Only those who are willing to risk going to far can possibly find out how
far one can go.
- T.S. Elliott
Young. Old. Just words.
- George Burns (84 years old)
They say they climb mountains because they are there. I wonder if it would
astound them to know that the very same reason is why the rest go around
them.
- S. Omar Barker
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
- Richard Cumberland (17th Century)
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish—and you
feed him for a lifetime.
- Native American saying
Even if you are on the right track you will get run over if you just sit
there.
- Will Rogers
Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus (ca 500 B.C.)
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make
mistakes.
- Mahatma Ghandi
The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.
- Heraclitus (ca. 500 B.C.)
The real voyage of new discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes,
but in having new eyes.
- Marcel Proust
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well the cards you
do hold.
- Josh Billings
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.
Choose in a marriage only a women who you would choose as a friend if she
were a man.
- Joseph Joubart
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn
out.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person
doing it.
- Chinese proverb
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to
be broken.
- Samuel Johnson
Life does not cease to be funny when people die, anymore than it ceases to
be serious when people laugh.
- George Bernard Shaw
At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself if this women would be
interesting to talk to from now until old age.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One disadvantage of having nothing to do is you can’t stop and rest.
I cried every day for a new pair of shoes until I saw a man with no feet.
Doing well has always been important to me. But life has taught me about
what “doing well” really means—and winning has little to do with it:
Trying is everything.
- Dr. George Sheehan
Becoming above average is not difficult. To put it bluntly, the average
person has settled for less, has accepted mediocrity—and has the status to
prove it. The real goal in life? To be above average—to be normal, which
really means being the best you can be. Being average is living in the
past; being normal is striving in the present… Being normal is chiefly a
matter of making the best of what you were born with, and it follows from
acknowledging an obligation to pursue excellence. But it’s important to
note that the pursuit alone counts as much as the achievement—and possibly
more.
- Dr. George Sheehan
To play the life game well, there are some essentials: Energy is one.
Physical energy is necessary for whatever we do daily. Without it,
whatever we do will be done badly or not at all. The 24 hours we’re given
each day shrink to a good deal less when we lack the endurance and stamina
to actually use them.
- Dr. George Sheehan
It is not stress that kills us. It is the effective adaptation to stress
that permits us to live.
- Dr. George E. Vaillant
Races are lost by not eating enough. Lives are lost by eating too much.
- Dr. George Sheehan
When we use the body with intensity to make it healthy and fit, we make
that mind healthy and fit as well. As our physical work capacity rises,
our capacity for mental work does as well.
- Dr. George Sheehan
"Neither success nor failure is ever final." Roger Babson
"I skate to where the puck is going to be. Not where it has been."
-Wayne Gretzky
"Whether you think you can or you can't--you will achieve." Henry Ford
"There is always time to add a word--never time to withdraw one." Baltasar
Gracian
"Hindsight explains the error that foresight would have prevented."
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." Ludwig Borne
"If you give a man a fish he eats for a meal. If you teach a man to fish
he
eats for a lifetime."
"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be
experienced." Art van der Leeuw
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in
his
heart." Ben Franklin
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience
of
trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition
inspired and success achieved."
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
Helen Keller
"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the
last limit of experience and the last effort of genius." George Sand
"You can only find truth with logic of you have already found it without
it."
GK Chesterton
"The wise reject what they think, not what they see." Huang-Po
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within
himself." Galileo Galilei
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