September 2012
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July 2012
1 post
Rise Above (7/20/12)
When hands of time, they rule the day,
Steal those who we love most away,
And only we are left to play:
That is when we rise above.
When distance forces us apart
That is the time when we must start,
Must do the work to play our part:
That is when we rise above.
When heat without and fire within
Compete, they stretch us paper thin,
A struggle to breathe out and in:
That is when we rise above.
Where strength and courage we have found
That is our place, our hallowed ground.
There no one pushes us around:
That is where we rise above.
They came before and led the way.
We fight for them and us today.
For victory, that’s why we say:
That is why we rise above.
Through all the blood and sweat and tears,
Through ups and downs, throughout the years,
We rise above our greatest fears:
That is how we rise above.
April 2012
17 posts
“If you are trapped between your feelings and what other people think is right, always go for whatever makes you happy.”
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“I’ve realized that in the end, it takes more bravery to find out who you are beyond your pain than to merely survive it.”
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“Believe in yourself. It’s up to you to define your own limits. You determine what you are capable of. You decide how far you want to go. You make it happen.”
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“RISE ABOVE: What does it mean to rise above? We face challenges every day. Some are big and some are small. Some we must face alone and some we can overcome together. But with every challenge we face, we are given a choice: will we rise to MEET the challenge or will we rise ABOVE it? Right here, right now, I choose to rise above. And WE must choose to rise above. No matter what we may have lost or what we may lose in the future, we retain the right to choose. This is our time, this is our year, and together we WILL rise above.”
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
—Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.”
—Pearl S. Buck
“This is my “depressed stance”. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you’ll start to feel better. If you’re going to get any joy out of being depressed, you’ve go to stand like this.”
—Charlie Brown
“Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached in life, as by the obstacles he or she has overcome while trying to succeed.”
—Booker T. Washington
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“We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.”
—Samuel Smiles
March 2012
4 posts
“You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
—James A. Froude
