A new starting place

Achieving your vision doesn’t mean you’ve reached the end of the line. It simply means that you’ve come to a new starting place.

Nido Qubein

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Never say never

Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Michael Jordan

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The mann in the glass

When you get what you want in your struggle for self,
And the world makes you king for a day,
Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,
And see what that man has to say.
For it isn’t a man’s father, mother or wife,
Whose judgement upon him must pass,
The fellow whose verdict counts most in life,
Is the man staring back from that glass.
He’s the fellow to please, never mind all the rest,
For he’s with you clear to the end,
And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test,
If the man in the glass is your friend.
You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,
And get pats on the back as you pass,
But the final reward will be heartache and tears,
If you’ve cheated the man in the glass.

/phil

Don’t give up!

If I quit now I will soon be back to where I started.

And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.

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Create the life you want

If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.

Kevin Ngo

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Point of view

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Ignorance can be bliss

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Winston Churchill

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