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Amazing Words of Encouragement
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Leave a Comment Today is my two month anniversary of quitting the love of my life, cigarettes. It’s been quite something so far, there’s been a bunch of both pros and cons (more on this in a few days), I have learned a lot about myself (what a cliche I know) and I have started doing things I would have never considered doing..such as exercising or cooking or doing my laundry periodically and not letting it pile up as usual.
See I was really one of those people that lived on air, caffeine in its varies shapes, and smokes and that pretty much all throughout college. And I was thin and cool. Now I am..the word for women is voluptuous and for men it’s flabby. But at least I am healthy, or ehm healthier and my conscience is eased.
But all this is quite beside the point. The point was this quote my brother send me not too long ago. Not surprisingly the quote helped me deal with problems and stress currently in my life (which consists of a start-up). He always seems to instinctively know from 9000 miles away (we live on two different continents) that I need encouragement and sends me hilarious and inspiring things. This one is the latter kind and apparently helped him go through his early withdrawal. It’s fairly long but it’s worth it so stick with it and let it sink in. Ok, here it is:
“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.”
What a freaking sentence that second one was. I had a sandwich while reading it. But it’s true and it’s inspiring. It makes you want to be the doer of deeds which I think I am already. Are you?
