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April 8, 2016
pt of the day
Everything that happens to us
leaves some trace behind;
everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are.
Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment.
Fully alive, fully aware.
Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
And today?
Today is a gift.
That's why we call it the present.
April 9, 2016
pt of the day
“The difference between the impossible and the possible
lies in a person’s determination.”
“Without self-discipline,
success is impossible,
period.”
“Today I will do what others won’t,
so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.”
April 10, 2016
pt of the day
“If you want to be happy,
do not dwell in the past,
do not worry about the future,
focus on living fully in the present.”
“Life isn’t meant to be lived perfectly…
but merely to be LIVED.
Boldly, wildly, beautifully, uncertainly, imperfectly,
magically LIVED.”
April 11, 2016
pt of the day
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone
not by violence
but by oft falling.
The race is not always to the swift,
but to those who keep on running.
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something
stand in the way of your doing it.
The time will pass anyway;
we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock,
perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred-and-first blow
it will split in two,
and I know it was not the last blow that did it,
but all that had gone before.
April 12, 2016
pt of the day
Commitment leads to action.
Action brings your dream closer.
First we form habits,
then they form us.
Conquer your bad habits
or they will conquer you.
The ultimate measure of a man is
not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience,
but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
April 13, 2016
pt of the day
If you do what you’ve always done,
you’ll get what you’ve always got.
There is only one way to avoid criticism:
do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
All life is an experiment.
The more experiments you make the better.
Only those who will risk going too far
can possibly find out how far one can go.
April 14, 2016
pt of the day
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened,
vision cleared, ambition inspired,
and success achieved.
Difficulty, my brethren,
is the nurse of greatness
a harsh nurse,
who roughly rocks her foster children into
strength and athletic proportion.
April 15, 2016
pt of the day
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
April 16, 2016
pt of the day
“The greater danger for most of us lies
not in setting our aim too high and falling short;
but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”
“Dare to dream!
If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true,
your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place.
There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve,
except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination.
What you believe to be possible will always come to pass -
to the extent that you deem it possible.
It really is as simple as that.”
April 17, 2016
pt of the day
“Self-discipline is the cornerstone of any endeavor.”
“success awaits those who
steadfastly commit to any requisite sacrifice”
Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification,
is the ability to resist the temptation for an immediate reward
and wait for a later reward.
Generally, delayed gratification
is associated with resisting a smaller but more immediate reward
in order to receive a larger or more enduring reward later.
“The road to character is built by confronting your own weakness.”
“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.”