If it was always easy, would you do it? If so, for how long?
If it was always easy, wouldn't you fade away? The real you (Mr. & Mrs. Character) looking for an out?
Why do we so often look for change when it is change that we so often want to avoid?
The answer lies in the challange, the difficulty, the building and refining of your HOPE muscle.
Why are so many of Oprah's book suggestions so full of agony, trials, hopelessness only to turn to hope and inspiration as the reader takes in the difficulties? It's in the answers, the way people of great trials overcome great difficulties. We find little solice in those who give in and struggle no more, those who fail and remain losers. For the winner struggles, and struggles mightly but overcomes (for oftentimes he / she in overcoming, the doing, encounters more trials than the loser who gives up too early too often).
It is why so many read about Odysseus and his Twenty years of Trials in getting back to Penelope, his love, his wife, his family, his home. It's why so many read about Gulliver and his Travels, Sixteen years of trials and dissapointment. It is not the sprinter who we revere, who we put in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, give the Lifetime Achievment Award to . . . for often derided and scorned is the Flash in the Pan, the One Hit Wonder (we marvel at these only for their grossness of regularity and comonality). Yet life is long and we want to know how to maintain hope throughout. We did so in anchient Greece. We did so in 18th Century England. We do so now. We always have. We always will.
It is in the marathon overcomer that we look to. It is in the overcoming that we look to that we learn from. Our trials may not be as great as those of great men and women--yet for some they may even be greater--but whatever we experience, we look to the comfort of those who came before us and came through for the Hope we need to get through ours.
That's why you love quotes.
Quotes by greats (super stars, the movie stars of the heart) help inspire us to the greatness within so that we may garner some of that greatness and apply it to our lives, our struggles, to find a way through the dark to the light.
Light on brother!
Light on sister!
How?
Tell the Truth! Be true to your Word! Keep your mind clean, wholesome and pure! Love to love others more than yourself! Give your life to your family, country, a friend! (MLK said living without something to die for is life not worth living) Stand before a crowd with nothing but your integrity and honesty! (That's why we love the Round Mound of Rebound, the Chuckster. He is honesty incarnate) Tell the Truth! Promote the Good! Disdain all that is unlclean, demeaning, and subversive. Demote the dark and Embrace the Light.
Embrace the Light! Embrace the Light! Embrace the Light!
Them Quotes You Love So Much:
"Do something that brings a tear to your eye whether you succeed, fail or just do. Do that which you were put here to do outside of what ever anyone says you should do. Do it and you will feel the power swell from head to toe. Do it and you will have to touch many lives. Do it and pass on that passion to those living in the dark, being lied to, and those lying to themselves." --Jeff Brown
"When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom."--Oprah Winfrey
"Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor."--Joseph Addison
"It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."--Alfred Adler
"Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lies comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, around him, and so loses all respect for himself and others."--Fyodor Doestoyevsky
"The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within--strength, courage, dignity."--Rub"
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."--Buddha
"Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" Vanity asks the question, "Is it popular?" But, conscience asks the question, "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right."--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself - forget about the impression you are trying to make."--Dale Carnegie
"Success is that peace of mind that comes from knowing you've done everything in your power to become the very best you're capable of becoming."--John Wooden
"Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful."--Malcolm Forbes
"Failures are divided into two classes: Those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."--John Charles Salak
"If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?"--Confucius
"And virtue, though in rags, will keep you warm."--John Drylan
"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is....Nothing should be able to harm a man but himself....What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance."--Oscar Wilde
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