Motivation

Here are my favorites from the Bold Words blog, which recently listed its "Top 100 Motivational Quotes."

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GOOD MOTIVATIONAL QUOTES

Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
-- Henry Ford

You can get everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
-- Zig Ziglar

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
-- Truman Capote

Success consists of doing the common things uncommonly well.
-- Author Unknown

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only way.
-- Albert Einstein

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
-- Winston Churchill

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
-- Frederich Nietzche

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

Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
-- Samuel Beckett

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got to where he is had to begin where he was.
-- Richard L. Evans

Those who wish to sing always find a song.
-- Swedish Proverb

[from the Bold Words blog; find the entire list of 100 here]

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I hope this week you've found something in my posts that has made you think life is -- or can be -- just that little bit better. I'll see you on Monday.

Mark

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WORDS for YOUR WEEKEND: "If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France)

Keep Going

In Wednesday's Mark Mail post, the "Wonder for Your Week" is: If ceased means stopped, does that mean a deceased person keeps going?

The answer is yes, most certainly.

One thing people just have a hard time wrapping their heads around is the fact that we are eternal. Our bodies may be temporary, but the stuff you can't see inside - the soul, the spirit, the essence of US - lasts forever.

I wonder (and, I confess, occasionally worry) about retirement. Do we slow down? Do we stop doing things? Does the central thread of our lives begin to unravel? I applaud all of you who are busier in retirement than you were during your occupational years. For two reasons: because you're now busy at what you want to be doing - which is always more fulfilling - and because you understand the eternal equation.

Death is only a speed bump. And I want the speedometer of my life to be red-pegged when I hit it.

I want to keep going ... right on into eternity.