July 26, 2008: Thoughts for the Day (1)
Good afternoon, my beloved forum.
I hope this day finds you well. I truly hope you have a great day, and you find the strength and passion within you today and each day to do the things necessary to take several steps closer to your fitness goals you desire.
I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and
take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.
We continue: Adapt and Overcome.
“The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher”
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We can learn from experience if we are ready to adapt that experience to changed conditions)
I think we all truly know,
deep down in our hearts, that's the disaster that's really going to wreak havoc on us.
(John Quinlan)
Chillen in interpretation:
One of greatest enemies to our fitness goals, is the inappropriate ability to handle ourselves: Our strengths and weaknesses. We are our greatest adversary, greatest competition, and greatest opponent, that we must overcome.
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Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.
(Nolan Ryan)
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We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances
(W. R. Inge)
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The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
(Jack Brymer)
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Goals are a means to an end, not the ultimate purpose of our lives. They are simply a tool to concentrate our focus and move us in a direction. The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.
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For Eric:
I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.
(Maya Angelou)
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One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
(Albert Schweitzer)
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
(Helen Keller)
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A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them
(Carl Gustav Jung)
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life... as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
(Booker T. Washington)
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I believe if we human beings keep our self-confidence and determination and use wisdom properly, I think we have the ability to overcome problems.
(Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama quotes (Dalai Lama, b.1935)
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Don't be afraid:
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid
(Claudia Lady Bird Johnson)
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Today can be a healthy unusual day for you -- and for others -- if you take time to give someone a smile . . .
to express a word of kindness . . . to lend a helping hand to someone in need . . .
to write a note of gratitude . . . to give a word of encouragement.........to someone who is temporarily overcome with problems . . .
Do it today......its all worth it.......
Best wishes to all
Chillen
