Yesterday was one of those days...
By the end of the day I was stressed and crabby. Usually when this happens, I like to reach for a quote to help put things back into perspective. Yesterday I remembered this one that my cousin, who works in hospice, shared with me.
When I'm stressed I try to remember something a patient much too young told me right before he died. He said that he missed being stressed and when I asked why, he stated "Being stressed means that you have a purpose. That you are needed and relied on."
Obviously, that straightened me out real quick. Another one of my favorite quotes, which is a little more light, is the one in the cover image! What's your favorite goto quote when you need a pick me up?!
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My favorite motivational quote:
"'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off"
-Taylor Swift
I'm not joking, either. When I'm frustrated or down I put that song on and it perks me up. It's silly, poppy, and energetic and it reminds me that nothing is important enough to jeopardize my health and well-being.
My failing tends to be the voice in the back of my head that tells me, its too hard, thats OK, its not your fault, its alright to give up. So i keep this quote from Frank Herbert above my desk...it puts me back on track:
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune
When i personally think.
1.Life is a short, days are numbered. we don't get choose our times. It means
Celebrated every breath. every moment.live life enjoy fully.
2.Work every single day like it is your last day on a earth.
I recently read this and really like it :
which i guess it would translate in english to something like
give everything, but up
As I read more and more, my life changes, not because of the book itself, but because of the habits I develop.
— Oscar Wilde
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Not really a quote, more of a monologue by Earl Nightingale
"Think of a ship with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly where the ship is going and how long it will take and it has a definite goal. And 9,999 times out of 10,000, it will get there.
Now let’s take another ship and just like the first and only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go. I think you’ll agree that if it gets out of the harbor at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach and a derelict. It can’t go anyplace because it has no destination and no guidance."
There was a comic called Zen Pencils that ran a strip quoting writer Charles Bukowski. The artist was asked to take down the strip by Bukowski's publishers, but the Internet never forgets.
Lately, my favorite reminder comes from Gary Vaynerchuk:
"You are going to die."