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    “It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.” ~ Steve Jobs

      “Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action.” ~ Jose Silva

        “Nothing truly stops you.  Nothing truly holds you back.  For your own will is always within your control.  Sickness may challenge your body. But are you merely your body? Lameness may impede your legs. But your are not merely your legs. Your will is bigger than your legs. Your will needn’t be affected by an incident unless you let it.” ~ Epictetus, The Art of Living

          “We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”

          Epictetus, The Art of Living

          The Laughing Heart

            your life is your life
            don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
            be on the watch.
            there are ways out.
            there is a light somewhere.
            it may not be much light but
            it beats the darkness.
            be on the watch.
            the gods will offer you chances.
            know them.
            take them.
            you can’t beat death
            but you can beat death in life, sometimes.
            and the more often you learn to do it,
            the more light there will be.
            your life is your life.
            know it while you have it.
            you are marvelous
            the gods wait to delight
            in you.

             

            ~ Charles Bukowski

              “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated.  Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” ~ Viktor Frankl

                “Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

                  “We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.” ~ Henry Ford

                    “Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

                      “The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

                        “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

                          “It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are – not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within – that you can begin to take control.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

                            “I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

                              “Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.” ~ Leo Buscaglia

                                “Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiseling and scraping and polishing.” ~ B.C. Forbes

                                  “Nature gave us two ends: one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then, man’s success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.” ~ Robert Albert Bloch

                                    “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” ~ Jim Rohn

                                      “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” ~ Jim Rohn

                                        “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ~ Milton Berle

                                          “The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn’t, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.” ~ Monica Baldwin