Success, Overcoming Adversity & Overcoming Failure

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
Grenville Kleiser

We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemy.
Rodrick Thorp

Never bend your head, always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King Jr

Oh God – Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small.
Author Unknown

I am an idealist. I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way.
Carl Sandburg

As I grow to understand life less and less. I learn to live it more and more.
Jules Renard

You never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka

The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
Charles W. Eliot

The greatest possession is self-possession.
Ethel Watts Mumford

Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. it doesn’t matter what you do in particular so long as you have your life.
Henry James

Life is a series of surprises. We do not guess today the mood, the pleasure, the power of tomorrow, when we are building up our being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself loses misery.
Matthew Arnold

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward John Phelps

it is only because of problems we grow mentally and spiritually.
M. Scott Peck

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt

You have to believe in happiness or happiness never comes.
Douglas Malloch

Don’t be sad, don’t be angry, if life deceives you submit to your grief- your time for joy will come, believe me.
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Duke Ellington

Let me win, but if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.
Special Olympics Motto

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is the promise of daylight.
London Times

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.
Robert Frost

Updated Nov. 1, 2008

We cannot change the direction of the wind; but we can adjust our sails….
Author Unknown

Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
Michael Eisner

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it.
Author Unknown

The greatest glory in living, lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.
Nelson Mandela

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Woodrow Wilson

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
Frank A. Clark

As long as you keep getting born, it’s alright to die some times.
Orson Scott Card

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
Unknown Author

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
Jan Glidewell

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe

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I came across this is an email today….gave me a good laugh and I thought I would share. I will post it under “Life’s Lessons!”

Whatever you give a woman, she’s going to multiply.

If you give her sperm, she’ll give you a baby.

If you give her a house, she’ll give you a home.

If you give her groceries, she’ll give you a meal.

If you give her a smile, she’ll give you her heart.

She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.’

So – if you give her crap,

you will receive more
shit than any one human being can handle.

Love and appreciate the woman in your life.

If you have not done so already, read the previous post, Tonight’s The Night ….it’s the only hope of having any sort of clarity to this madness!
Night 1- with my miracle bar of soap attached to my left leg (which is much more prone to RLS) I go to bed anticipating my first good nights sleep in forever. Face is washed, teeth are brushed and I am in my most comfy P.J.’s ever. I lay in bed waiting, analyzing, praying….eventually falling into a deep, peaceful sleep. It worked! A flippin’ $1.97 bar of soap. Two hours later I awake to my right leg flip flopping to and fro, I had the creepy crawlys, I had the whole nine yards. So I did what any logical person would do, I grabbed me another bar of soap, rubbed my leg down with it and attached it with a bandanna! Within 30 minutes I was back to sleep. Now anyone who suffers from this “problem” knows once it (the creepy crawlys) starts it can last a few hours or the whole night long. So now I’m thinking this $1.97 bar of soap really is a miracle!
Night 2- All hell breaks loose in both my legs before I am even able to attach my little miracle soaps. I cry. I am doomed for the night. As I wipe away the crocodile tears, I put on my new little anklets. I prepare for the worst but hope for the best. I lay down, I am miserable. I try to relax  waiting for the soap to kick in….or for someone to shoot me. I am now passing the time staring at my toes guessing which one will twitch next and for how long, they are all flickering simultaneously now so the game is no longer amusing! I decide to go online, I am going to announce to the world this soap thing is a hoax. I have two bars of soap (at $1.97 each) and I still have legs flip flopping to and fro, creepy crawlys and twitching toes. Well…as luck would have it I somehow came across a website with a post that explains what to do if the RLS has already progressed. (WTF?) It said to gently rub the soap onto the bottom of your feet and then let it rest there for about 3 minutes. Guess what? It worked! Honest to God…the rest of the night was drama free and I slept like a baby!!!
Night 3- I ditched the bandannas and placed by bars of soap under the sheets…like they had originally said to do. My anxiety level was quite high as I prepared for bed as I just didn’t know what to expect. Although it took me awhile to fall asleep, I slept like a baby. Yahoo!!! There were a few times I felt a ‘sensation’ in my legs but no flip flopping to and fro, no creepy crawlys, no twitching toes. The verdict is in, I am a believer!!

These are a few other home ‘remedies’ I have tried…and that was just in the past week. Aside from the Vodka (*wink*) the soap wins. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence,  mind over matter or if I’m just crazy. My kids think it’s the latter….that’s o.k., for now I’m elated, I’m trading in my RLS for REM!!

*Update*
Night 4- Perfect nights sleep!!!
One month later- sleeping like a baby!
Three and a half months later…still smiling!

I love quotes and I have oodles I’ve collected over the years….sharing some of my favorites relating to LOVE…

To love and be loved is to feel the sun on both sides.
David Viscott

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
Author Unknown

It’s easy to fall in love. The hard part is finding someone to catch you.
Bertrand Russell

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
Author Unknown

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
Oscar Wilde

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; That word is love.
Sophocles

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.
Author Unknown

To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Brandi Snyder

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within the reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints on our hearts, and  we are never ever the same.
Flavia Weed

Life without Love is like a harp without strings.
Author Unknown

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.
Charles Morgan

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
Rosemonde Gerard

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia

One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can’t utter.
James Earl Jones

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Author Unknown

What the heart gives away is never gone … It is kept in the hearts of others.
Robin St. John

Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong- sometimes it’s letting go.
Sylvia Robinson

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
Author Unknown

Updated June 27, 2009

To Love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

We are not held back by the Love we didn’t receive in the past, but by the love we’re not extending in the present.
M. Williamson

To the lamp of love: May it burn brightest in the darkest hours and never flicker in the winds of trial
Unknown

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
Mother Teresa

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix

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I suffer almost every night with (RLS) Restless Leg Syndrome. Those creepy crawly feelings you get just as you are nodding off to la la land. You are almost a joke to watch sleep as your legs are flip flopping to and fro. If you were actually awake you may have a great chance in So You Think You Can Dance. It is a horrible, frustrating and steals precious nights of sleep from you.
So, my mom comes by today and in passing mentions a ‘remedy’ she had read in our local newspaper, a remedy for RLS. She mentions it in passing perhaps because she doesn’t realize how severe this has gotten. I grab her by the shoulders and shake her, “What paper mom, when, what did it say….where the hell is it?” Well it sorta didn’t happen exactly like that but you got the picture.
So she begins to enlighten me with her new RLS knowledge. I laugh for a half a second. You are my mom, wtf are you talking about, this is thee most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. “Hear me out” she says. I oblige. Supposedly, if you lay a bar of soap under your sheet near where your leg rests, you will no longer suffer leg cramps or the creepy crawlys of RLS. Now I have tried just about everything (including trying to numb my leg with anbesol) so I figure…..seriously, why not! I decide to take it a step further. God forbid that bar of soap gets away from my creepy crawly leg. I must take extra precautions!

I am not too sure how, or if this is going to work but I am going to give it a damn good try!! According to the “extensive” research I have done, it does really work. How simple would that be…..how amazing would that be….I’ll let you know!! I need a good nights sleep and it could just be Tonight’s The Night!!!

See how this worked here

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins-not through strength, but through persistence.
Buddha

Sometimes the path you’re on is not as important as the direction you’re heading.
Kevin Smith

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Author Unknown

When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures.
Charles C. Noble

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshniko

If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Lawrence J. Peter

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Louisa May Alcott

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.
Author Unknown

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.
Charles F. Kettering

A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Abraham Lincoln

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.
Author Unknown

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford

See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Robert Collier

Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
Doug Larson

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the “try-angle.”
Author Unknown

Whether you think you can or can’t, you’re right
Henry Ford

One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Sidney Howard

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
John Dewey

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Les Brown

If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.
Author Unknown

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Anthony Robbins

Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Cavett Robert

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Zigla

Updated June 22, 2009

It’s not if glass is half full or half empty that matters. It’s whether your goal is to ration what’s left or to fill it up again.
Unknown

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Woodenabout

You can do anything, but not everything.
David Allen

Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?
C. Myss

Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.
Les Brown

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
G. B. Shaw

The only place where success comes before work is a dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon

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Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Wayne Dyer

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert Heinlein

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

A dream is an answer to a question we haven’t yet learned how to ask.
Fox Mulder

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend’s hand~ and hold on forever.
Traci Brown

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Author Unknown

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.
Edward Kennedy

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Martin Luther King

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn’t all a dream?
Ashleigh Brilliant

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Will Durant

Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.
Phantom F. Harlock

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.
Author Unknown

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes

A man’s dreams are an index to his greatness.
Zadok Rabinowitz

In your heart, keep one still secret spot where dreams may go and be sheltered so they may thrive and grow.
Louise Driscoll

Only as high as I reach can I grow Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.
Karen Ravn

You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you will join us, and the world will live as one.
John Lennon

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
Anias Nin

Some men see things as they are and say ‘why’? Others dream things that never were and say ‘why not’?
George Bernard Shaw

Dreams are … illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
Marsha Norman

If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Galileo Galilei

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marde

Let your dream devour your life not your life devour your dream.
Author Unknown

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.
J.M. Power

Dream as if you’ll live forever… live as if you’ll die today.
James Dean

Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Carl Sandburg

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter’s evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
Woodrow Wilson

Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
Louise Driscoll

Updated June 22, 2009

Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.
L. Frank Baum

Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.
Flavia

Imagination is everything! It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
Albert Einstein

Reason can answer questions but imagination has to ask them.
Ralph Gerard

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
Angela Monet

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.
Jeremy Irons

Dreams are free, so free your dreams.
Astrid Alauda

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You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.
Jonathan Carroll

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson

Let us watch well our beginnings and results will manage themselves.
Alexander Clark

He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.
Jim Rohn

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston Churchill

The distance is nothing; it’s only the first step that is difficult.
Marquise du Deffand

Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress,
and working together is success.
Henry Ford

Seems like I’ve been here before, can’t remember when
I get this funny feeling, we’ll be together again;
No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends;
No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.
Tom Chapin

Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always.
Author Unknown

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Chinese Proverb

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
Dave Weinbaum

Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi

No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Native  American Proverb

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle

All glory comes from daring to begin.
Eugene F. Ware

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
John Henry Cardinal

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
Ivy Baker Priest

The greatest masterpieces were once only pigments on a palette.
Henry S. Hoskins

You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Joe Sabah

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

You will never win if you never begin.
Helen Rowland

What appears to be the end may really be a new beginning.
Author Unknown

Updated June 22, 2009

To Love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm
Sir Winston Churchill

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