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“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
No matter who you are, there’s a lot of things you cannot do–and that’s okay! We all have different talents, strengths, and weaknesses. Imagine if everyone was equally talented in the same things. It would make for a very boring world with little progress or innovation. So instead of beating…
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“Your Monday morning thoughts set the tone for your whole week. See yourself getting stronger, and living a fulfilling, happier, and healthier life.”
“Success is what happens after you have survived all of your disappointments.”
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
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“The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible.”
This quote is from Linda Woolverton’s screen adaptations of Alice In Wonderland. It’s said by the characters Charles Kingsleigh (2010) and Alice Kingsleigh (2016). The quote reminds us that achieving what seems impossible requires some amount of hope and faith that it can be done. Naturally, our effort is commiserate…
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”
Having lofty goals, especially when there doesn’t seem to be any prospect of reaching them, can seem like building castles in the air. Taking things a step further is jumping right into those goals with little prospect or foundation to reach them. Conventional wisdom says that you should get all…
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“Go as far as you can see and you will see further.”
A phenomenal thing happens as you move toward a horizon. It moves. –And what seemed like a finite view suddenly becomes infinite. As you go as far as you can see, you see even further, as stated in this quote by Zig Ziglar. But more importantly, this quote tells us…
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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”
“When you do the right thing, you get the feeling of peace and serenity associated with it. Do it again and again.”
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
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Living Life Poetically: It Takes Time
The poem, “It Takes Time,” is for those moments when our grief, pain, hopelessness, or efforts toward a certain goal seem to persist with no change or little progress. It Takes Time It may take timeTo heal all wound. It may take timeFor flowers to bloom. It’s tempting to assumeThat…
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“Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.”
This quote is often misattributed to the renowned writer, Mark Twain. However, it is by H. Jackson Brown Jr., a best selling author known for his books, Life’s Little Instruction Book and P.S. I Love You. This quote reminds us to overcome our fears and doubts and pursue the things…
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“You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.”
This quote, by the writer, philosopher, and poet Henry David Thoreau, reminds us that it’s not enough to do the right thing or follow the right path. That can only take us so far. Using archery as an illustration, Thoreau wrote, “You must not only aim right, but draw the…
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“Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”
More often than not, the dreams we have don’t happen over night. They take time. Sometimes they take A LOT of time, or they take time we don’t have much of. So then, we give up on the dream and abandon all the small steps we can be taking toward…
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“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.”
“You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.”
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“The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.”
Sometimes motivation is hard to come by. The drive and energy that inspires us to action are completely gone. So, we’re left with fatigue, a dull spirit, and a whole lot of procrastination. We’re more prone to think of our goals as something we’ll get to in the future, instead…
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“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
Being able to go back in time to start over or redo a period of our life is something most people find alluring. Who doesn’t have something they would do differently? This quote, by Carl Bard, is reassuring. Although we can’t always have a brand new start at something, we…
