Category: Quotes

While waiting for some takeout tonight I decided to add a bit of ‘bonus’ cardio to my day. While powerwalking laps up and down the local hill in my neighborhood I came across these: It’s nice to have these little ‘messages from the Universe’ show up in my mental inbox when I need them most. Read more →

Sometimes the things that you need to hear seem to appear when they’re the most needed. I really needed to hear both of these things today. “You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible—and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some… Read more →

Never give up… Read more →

“I walk down the street.There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.I fall in.I am lost… I am helpless.It isn’t my fault.It takes forever to find a way out. I walk down the same street.There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.I pretend I don’t see it.I fall in again.I can’t believe I am in the same place.But, it isn’t… Read more →

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“Most of us are quitting because we are walking into a challenge with no purpose and definitely no end state. You have to set yourself up to experience greatness.” — David Goggins “If you can get through to doing things you hate to do, on the other side is greatness. — David Goggins “Get your butterflys flying in formation.” —… Read more →

Invictus by William Henley Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole,I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance      I have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chance      My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror… Read more →

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.” — Ellis Boy “Red” Redding from ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ “It’s the mind forged manacles that are often the hardest to break.” — Christopher Hitchens “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” — Epictetus “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve… Read more →

“Do not wait. The time will never be “just right.” Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.” — Napoleon Hill “My past doesn’t define me. It refines me.” — Willie D of the Geto Boys “Don’t wait for people to be friendly.… Read more →

“First you “be” the thing called “happy” (or “knowing,” or “wise,” or “compassionate,” or whatever), then you start “doing” things from this place of beingness — and soon you discover that what you are doing winds up bringing you the things you’ve always wanted to “have.” The way to set this creative process (and that’s what this is…the process of… Read more →