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“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
Challenges are things we try to eliminate or reduce as much as possible. And rightfully so. Everything is going smoothly until a challenge comes along to throw us off our balance. But is that necessarily always a bad thing? When practicing yoga, the more we test our physical balance the…
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“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
Naturally, we’re sad when something ends–especially something we enjoyed. But as this quote by Jonathan Lockwood Huie reminds us, endings are one of the things that make new beginnings possible. We may not recognize what that new beginning is at first. Sometimes new beginnings are wrapped in disguise. It’s easy…
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“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
We often wait for conditions to be perfect to begin certain things. So, those things end up being procrastinated indefinitely. However, this quote, by Alan Cohen, reminds us that simply beginning helps make the conditions perfect. When we begin and not wait, we may not have all the pieces perfectly…
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“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”
When an artist paints a picture, they are constantly working through mistakes. They might realize a color is slightly off, a brush stroke is too thick or in the wrong direction, or an object in the painting isn’t where they want it to be. So they adjust things–and it’s all…
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“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'”
“Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It’s imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways – ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.”
“Always refuse to be like the others. The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others.”
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“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”
Being intensely motivated to do something is such a great feeling. You feel like you can take on the world. You’re full of energy, inspiration, and spirit. But that feeling doesn’t always last. This quote, by Zig Ziglar, reminds us that being motivated is not something that automatically happens each…
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“The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.”
This quote is from the children’s book, The Secret of Saying Thanks, by Douglas Wood. In reading this book and quote, we are reminded that it’s impossible to be thankful and unhappy at the same time. That’s because gratitude has a way of bending our attitude toward happiness. And this…
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“Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.”
Sometimes we try at something and experience defeat. And that’s ok. According to this quote, by George Edward Woodberry, not trying at all is the worst kind of failure. Without actually doing something, we automatically fail. But that’s not all. We fail without ever knowing what could have been if…
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“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
“Never fear shadows. They simply mean there’s a light shining nearby.”
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“If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing.”
When something goes wrong, the natural reaction is to worry about it. But at the end of the day, that worry does absolutely nothing to make the problem go away. In fact, it can paralyze us and make it harder to do something about it. This quote, by Ernest Hemingway,…
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“The things you are passionate about are the real reason for your existence on this planet.”
Finding our purpose is something we all strive to do. But sometimes, that pursuit can take a whole lifetime. And quite often, when we feel like we’ve found our purpose, we aren’t entirely sure. This quote, by Hiral Nagda, makes the search quite simple. We have to examine the things…
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“You never fail until you stop trying.”
This anonymous quote forces us to ask ourselves at which point we can legitimately say we failed at something. The simple answer? We can only say we’ve failed when we’ve stopped working at it. When we stop trying, we put and end–a full stop–to whatever it is we’re trying to…
