30 Days of Positive Ideas - Day 30: (ya didnt think I forgot, did ya?) So, hopefully the message has shown through all the quotes and prose: Life is filled with struggles - and joy... Its pretty easy to choose a positive perspective when joy is shining upon us. Its quite a different story when struggles are weighing us down. The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. --Friedrich Nietzsche I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. --Robert Burns We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities. --Norman Vincent Peale Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldnt quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. --Frank Abagnale, Sr. (Christopher Walken) - Catch Me If You Can Many who quote the Christopher Walken line above say it speaks to perseverance and survival. I agree, but I believe all that begins with an attitude - a perspective - that each of us must CHOOSE, over and over again, each and every day, through every joy and every struggle. I believe the second mouse crawled out in victory not simply because it kept swimming and struggling, but because it chose, with each and every stroke of its paws, to BELIEVE it would survive. Amidst the struggles and joys of this tumultuous life, one simple thing is true: if youre still alive, youre still winning. --Bill Connors With love, my wish for you is this: BE WELL!
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:44:53 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015