Attitude is everything
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i slept and dreamed that life was joy,
i awoke and found that life was duty,
i acted and behold...duty was joy. hindu poem by Rabindranath Iagore
No matter how hard the loss, defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. Al Gore
CAVU - ceilings and visability unlimited (a plaque placed in the foundation of George Bush Sr. Kennebunkport home)
The merciful, kind and generous man benefits himself (for his deeds return to bless him), but he who is cruel and callous (to the needs of others) brings on himself retribution. Proverbs 11
Never argue with a stupid or mean person, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
i awoke and found that life was duty,
i acted and behold...duty was joy. hindu poem by Rabindranath Iagore
No matter how hard the loss, defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. Al Gore
CAVU - ceilings and visability unlimited (a plaque placed in the foundation of George Bush Sr. Kennebunkport home)
The merciful, kind and generous man benefits himself (for his deeds return to bless him), but he who is cruel and callous (to the needs of others) brings on himself retribution. Proverbs 11
Never argue with a stupid or mean person, they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.
Miss Lee
Cathlete
Janis, do you have the Press Play workout? It's a must have for anyone who loves Cardio Coach. It's probably one of, if not THE most motivational and inspirational workouts. It's an exercise for the mind, body, and soul! It's available on Jim MacLaren's webiste -- Sean donated the workout to the Choose Living Foundation. http://www.jimmaclaren.com/shop.htmI am so inspired by Cardio Coach, and since Sean O' has mentioned Maclaren, and now you have, I am checking him out too.
I am so glad everyone is posting their positive, motivational, inspirational messages - it spreads the happiness around.
ETA that a group of us does this workout on the last Saturday of the month and we'd love for you to join us. We always post a thread right here in the OD forum.
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poetree_n_motion
Cathlete
~ I beg you ... to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer ... (Rainer Maria Rilke) ~
What a wonderful thread. Thanks for starting it and also to everyone who contributed!
~ Lori
What a wonderful thread. Thanks for starting it and also to everyone who contributed!
~ Lori
Thank you Michele, I will definitely join Press Play Saturday!!! Thank you for the link, what a fabulous vision and program.
Here are a few more for today:
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers
Deepak Chopra
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
Montaigne
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the
whole staircase, just take the first step
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I praise loudly. I blame softly
Catherine the Great
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant,
there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers
Deepak Chopra
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
Montaigne
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the
whole staircase, just take the first step
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I praise loudly. I blame softly
Catherine the Great
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant,
there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks
Johann Gottfried von Herder
Love the Peter Marshall quote - so true - you can't grow beyond something if there hasn't been resistance to begin with.
Love your workout mantra too. I like to think the burn is my cellulite on fire!
Here are a few more for today -
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
Norman Vincent Peale
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said
Peter Drucker
When you speak of someone or about someone,
you should speak as though they were in the room with you.
The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William 'Biddy' Allen
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see,
and knows what the mind cannot understand
Robert Vallett
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
Norman Vincent Peale
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said
Peter Drucker
When you speak of someone or about someone,
you should speak as though they were in the room with you.
The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William 'Biddy' Allen
The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see,
and knows what the mind cannot understand
Robert Vallett
WOW - what an amazing individual
Hey Beavs, I have been reading the Wiki entry for Grace Hopper, such an inspiration, I wish I had known her.
The ancedotes are great!
- received the nickname "Grandma COBOL" -
-her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. Though the term computer bug cannot be definitively attributed to Admiral Hopper, she did bring the term into popularity.
And this quote: "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for."
Thanks for sending me her way. What an amazing person. I love her 1984 photo!
"All negativity is an illusion created by the limited mind to protect and defend itself."
(I've been finding negative people especially tiresome as of late)
In matters of style, swim with the current; In matters of principle, stand like a rock. Thomas Jefferson
If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. Grace Hopper (She's right and thanks to her my work has gotten far more interesting and rewarding)
Fun thread.
Hey Beavs, I have been reading the Wiki entry for Grace Hopper, such an inspiration, I wish I had known her.
The ancedotes are great!
- received the nickname "Grandma COBOL" -
-her associates discovered a moth stuck in a relay and thereby impeding operation, whereupon she remarked that they were "debugging" the system. Though the term computer bug cannot be definitively attributed to Admiral Hopper, she did bring the term into popularity.
And this quote: "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what a ship is built for."
Thanks for sending me her way. What an amazing person. I love her 1984 photo!
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ellesan
Cathlete
Helen Keller Quotes
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
My2girls
Cathlete
Wow! Some of these are super-duper great!! Love the Corrie Ten Boom one.
This is from a song I love called More to This:
There's more to life than being born and dying
There's more to life than slowly growing old
If we are wise
We'll keep our eyes on Jesus
Or miss out on the very thing
That God has made us for
Third Day
Love the Corrie Ten Boom one.This is from a song I love called More to This:
There's more to life than being born and dying
There's more to life than slowly growing old
If we are wise
We'll keep our eyes on Jesus
Or miss out on the very thing
That God has made us for
Third Day
caseysmomgo
Cathlete
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." Eleanor Roosevelt
This is my favorite, but I'm not sure who said it:
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
This is a great thread!
This is my favorite, but I'm not sure who said it:
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
This is a great thread!
This quote was inside the cap of my Honest Tea yesterday.
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of they way things turn out." John Wooden
His Wiki says he is a retired Basketball coach - I cut and paste the following from his page.
Seven Point Creed
John Wooden's Seven Point Creed, given to him by his father Joshua upon his graduation from grammar school:
* Be true to yourself.
* Make each day your masterpiece.
* Help others.
* Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.
* Make friendship a fine art.
* Build a shelter against a rainy day.
* Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
Wooden also has authored a lecture and a book about the Pyramid of Success.[19] The Pyramid of Success consists of philosophical building blocks for winning at basketball and at life. He is also the author of several other books about basketball and life.
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of they way things turn out." John Wooden
His Wiki says he is a retired Basketball coach - I cut and paste the following from his page.
Seven Point Creed
John Wooden's Seven Point Creed, given to him by his father Joshua upon his graduation from grammar school:
* Be true to yourself.
* Make each day your masterpiece.
* Help others.
* Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible.
* Make friendship a fine art.
* Build a shelter against a rainy day.
* Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.
Wooden also has authored a lecture and a book about the Pyramid of Success.[19] The Pyramid of Success consists of philosophical building blocks for winning at basketball and at life. He is also the author of several other books about basketball and life.
Some new quotes and thoughts for today -
We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of,
not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past
Vivek Paul
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself
Galileo
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement.
We become what we think about.
Earl Nightingale
ETA: or "we become what we meditate on" or "we become what we put our attention on."
We have to go for what we think we're fully capable of,
not limit ourselves by what we've been in the past
Vivek Paul
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself
Galileo
Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers,
and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things.
It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement.
We become what we think about.
Earl Nightingale
ETA: or "we become what we meditate on" or "we become what we put our attention on."
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This one is sooooo true.
"Advise is what you ask for when you already know the answer, but wish you didn't. "
And on a post it note beside my computer screen:
"Stay focused on your goals. Practice willpower and don't let anyone - not even yourself - tell you that you can't. "
"Advise is what you ask for when you already know the answer, but wish you didn't. "
And on a post it note beside my computer screen:
"Stay focused on your goals. Practice willpower and don't let anyone - not even yourself - tell you that you can't. "
wgilchrist
Cathlete
I have been focused on this for a few days...
"There are no accidents in a Universe directed by a Source energy that creates endless real magic in the form of its creations." -Wayne Dyar
"There are no accidents in a Universe directed by a Source energy that creates endless real magic in the form of its creations." -Wayne Dyar
Cardio Coach Volume 7 has propelled me to add to this collection of positive, motivational and inspiration quotes -
"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."
Bernard Edmonds
ETA: add your favorite quotes too.
"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."
Bernard Edmonds
ETA: add your favorite quotes too.
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