Refuse to be defined by your circumstances.
- Steve Gleason
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To friends and fellow sufferers I say keep on keeping on.
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@BeastOfGevaudan love this!
You just have to love good old Abe. Wish we could clone him now.
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I have found Ralphās writings to be eerily targeted many times. Here is one that I like particularly well.
The Daily Motivator message for
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Worthy of the best
by Ralph Marston
You are worthy of the best in life. So act like it.
You are worthy, but that doesnāt mean youāre entitled. It means you have the responsibility to live up to that worthiness, to live up to your full potential.
You are worthy of the best because you are capable of creating, experiencing and enjoying the best. You can reach inside yourself, feel your authentic desire, and bring that desire to life.
You are worthy, and yet that doesnāt mean you can have what you want without effort. In fact, it is your worthiness that obligates you to make those efforts that will bring about the best you can imagine.
Remember always how truly worthy, beautiful and unique you are. Live each moment of your life as an expression of that worthiness.
Let your thoughts, priorities and actions reflect the worthiness that is you. You are worthy of the best, so be your best, now and always.
Ā© 2013 Ralph S. Marston, Jr.
From The Daily Motivator website at The Daily Motivator - Worthy of the best
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Itās tough especially when you get a pass/fail mark everytime you test your bs.
Hope things smooth out for you.
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@Jim26 thank you! They have smoothed outā¦ So I guess today I āpassā. Who know what tomorrow brings???
This is all so relentlessly UPBEAT!
Personally I find thereās nothing like a bit of Samuel Beckett to cheer me upā¦
POZZO: ā¦They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then itās night once moreā¦
VLADIMIR: Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries.
Waiting for Godot, Act 2.
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@jjm335 Its all that waiting for Samuel Beckett to seep into my brain that freaks me out.
"ā¦You surrender after youāre deadā¦ā [sic, my emphasis, not the authorās]
ā Robert Jordan, New Spring
By; Albert Camus
Existentialist Philosopher
āIn the midst of Winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible Summer.ā
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Decide what to be and go be itā¦
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@Jim26 good one! We really need someone to create a TuD playlist!
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@Stuart my favorite gymnastics coach is well beyond 70 years oldā¦ Everyone always asks āwhen are you going to retire?ā His response every time āyou quite moving you dieā. Why surrender!?
āI do not want thisā¦ donāt you tell me how I feel- you donāt know just how I feelā
āWhat doesnāt kill us makes us who we areā
āI always feel happy, you know why?
Because I donāt expect anything from anyone; expectations always hurtā¦ Life is shortā¦ So love your lifeā¦ Be happyā¦ And Keep smilingā¦ Just Live for yourself and always remember:
Before you speakā¦ Listen
Before you writeā¦ Think
Before you spendā¦ Earn
Before you prayā¦ Forgive
Before you hurtā¦ Feel
Before you hateā¦ Love
Before you quitā¦ Try
Before you dieā¦ Live.ā
- William Shakespeare
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Hey, i have a funny saying that i heard at Camp Conrad Chinnock, a camp for type 1 diabetics. āDiabetics are the only people who take drugs to KEEP from getting highā. Itās not really inspirational, but itās really funny!!!
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When life gives you lemons, make orange juice, because everyone else makes lemon aid.
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