Sometimes, when your whole world is falling apart, you just sit. Silent. Calm.
Because deep down inside, you know that …
… this will not be the thing that brings you down.
Category: Self Development
Best pep talk ever
This is Al Pacino’s locker room speech from the movie ‘Any Given Sunday’.
Start Where You Stand
Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won’t help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that’s enough, you’re done with it, you’re through;
This is another chapter in the book,
This is another race that you have planned,
Don’t give the vanished days a backward look,
Start where you stand.
The world won’t care about your old defeats
If you can start anew and win success;
The future is your time, and time is fleet
And there is much of work and strain and stress;
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,
Here is a brand-new trial right at hand,
The future is for him who does and dares,
Start where you stand.
Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,
To-day’s the thing, to-morrow soon will be;
Get in the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history,
What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead,
Start where you stand.
~~~
by Berton Braley
Photo credit © 小猫王
The Seeker
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” — Albert Camus
The Misfits
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
-Apple Computers Inc
Photo Credit © Geoffroy Demarquet
Set Yourself On Fire
“Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.” - Fred Shero (Hockey coach)
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Imagination is a wonderful thing. It is the closest thing we have to magic. It feeds the part of ourselves that is not skin and bone, the part of ourselves that we have forgotten all about. Every once in a while something will happen to you and you will glimpse it. You will see someone do something so brilliant or so beautiful that it will take your breathe away. You have been inspired.
You begin to feel the need to do more, be more. You have seen brilliance and beauty and in that moment, what you have is no longer enough.
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