| Life can be a challenge. Yet if we view those | | | | about life. It goes on." |
| challenges as stepping stones to where we want to | | | | -- Robert Frost |
| go, they actually contribute to our growth. On the other | | | | It does indeed. And every day we get another chance |
| hand, if we let them discourage us, we lose out. Read | | | | to make a new start. In fact, every moment, but it |
| on for seven short inspirational quotes that will help you | | | | does seem to work better after a good night's sleep. |
| put things in perspective when the going gets tough. | | | | And if anyone ever picks on you for your perceived |
| "Eighty percent of success is showing up." | | | | lack of success, remember what Bill Cosby had to say |
| -- Woody Allen | | | | about that one: |
| Doesn't that take off the pressure? Sometimes just | | | | "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure |
| being in the right place at the right time is all it takes. If | | | | is trying to please everybody." |
| you're feeling a sudden impulse to go somewhere, go. | | | | -- Bill Cosby |
| Many years ago, I once won a medal in a karate | | | | Another one of my favorites, Albert Einstein, found |
| sparring competition -- because I showed up. Unlike | | | | another way to put it in perspective: |
| some of my competitors, who chickened out at the | | | | "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not |
| last minute. I stepped forward, got beaten up in the one | | | | everything that counts can be counted." |
| fight I did end up fighting, and yet I ended up with a | | | | -- Albert Einstein |
| medal! I didn't get into sports until college, so this was | | | | One of my favorites is on a coffee mug I acquired |
| the only sports medal I ever acquired and felt like an | | | | while I went through breast cancer treatments -- and it |
| amazing achievement. Me, the anti-jock, won a medal | | | | really helped me gain perspective: |
| in karate! And I still have that medal to this day. | | | | "Don't take life too seriously. It's not permanent." |
| So even if things don't work quite the way you have | | | | -- On a coffee mug by Oz |
| hoped for, take heart. Edison said that that he found | | | | And so, instead of focusing too hard on what |
| 999 ways the light bulb did NOT work. Or something | | | | everybody else wants us to do, or achieving success |
| along those lines. What a great positive spin on having | | | | at any price, why not go with Joseph Campbell and |
| tried something a thousand times until it finally worked. | | | | follow our bliss: |
| But if you're still feeling discouraged, consider this: | | | | "Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will |
| "It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor | | | | open where you didn't know they were going to be." |
| failure is ever final." | | | | -- Joseph Campbell |
| -- Roger Babson | | | | I always try to remember that one whenever I'm |
| Indeed. And Robert Frost has found an even cooler | | | | tempted to get discouraged. And keep looking for the |
| way to put it: | | | | doors, which keep turning up in the most surprising |
| "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned | | | | places. |