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A Little Pick-Me-Up After a Bad Day

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I often read this after I have a bad day, especially when I have done some stupid mistakes:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

Teddy Roosevelt

“Citizenship in a Republic,”

Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris,

April 23, 1910

Terry

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You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take..........Wayne Gretzky

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Who is Wayne Gretzky anyway?

That's a joke! I know he plays billiards.

That was a joke too. Ignore me, I am retarded.

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That's a great qoute.

My personal favorite is IF by Rudyard Kipling. My wife and daughters had a nice handwritten copy of this put into a frame and gave it to me for a birthday present a couple of years ago.

If

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with triumph and disaster

And treat those two imposters just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

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To act in anger, without control and discipline, to have no forbearance, is to be defeated.

-Don Juan

Rod!~

Never know what you will find on TGS, Carlos Castaneda was about the last thing I expected.

Fascinating series of books for their time, the 60's and 70's. Castaneda has not worn well, and has been pretty much discredited over time. Regardless, the series of books is an interesting read.

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Never know what you will find on TGS, Carlos Castaneda was about the last thing I expected.

Fascinating series of books for their time, the 60's and 70's. Castaneda has not worn well, and has been pretty much discredited over time. Regardless, the series of books is an interesting read.

On the contrary though, his books have become internationally acclaimed.

Great reading.

Rod!~

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Rod,

Seeing your "Don Juan" quote sparked my interest, having read every Castaneda book two or three times in the past.

Went off and "googled" to see what Carlos has been up to the past 30 years. History has not been kind. The veracity of his writings appears to not have held up under scrutiny. A recent interesting article in Salon sums up the intervening years and can be found at:

http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/04/12/castaneda/

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Some obtuse truths:

It has been said: Opinions are like butt holes, everyones got one.

That doesn't mean they should all see the light of day.

Intellectual property ceases to be so once it is public knowledge. Coca Cola doesn't put their secret recipe on line and still claim it is theirs.

Barf or crap, it's all the same once it has been mixed up...no one wants it.

Revenge is a dish best served cold, but it is also a 2-way street.

Take one day at a time...like it comes any other way?

Misery loves company ... but misery makes you sick.

It's all fun and games, till someone loses a nut. (Then it becomes personal)

Time is on your side (till you've wasted it and you have none left)

A penny saved is a penny earned. Now you can say your not penniless.

Ignorance and arrogance walk hand in hand. (because everyone else has been burned)

Hate and prejudice have one thing in common; neither one cares.

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The ultimate questions:

Why am I here? To evolve

For how long? Till death takes you.

The ultimate action:

Stop acting like tomorrow will always come, you have no guarantee that you will live one second longer.

Live impeccably and with purpose of heart, without rushing, without faltering. We go as far as we can.

Rod!~

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