“You will struggle, you will sweat, you will cry, you will want to give up, but above all, YOU WILL OVERCOME, because you are meant for greatness” – Unknown As I approach the one year mark of writing my first official post on this blog, I find myself reflecting on the initial reasons […]
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“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” – Henry David Thoreau We live in a day and age where negative news runs rampant across the airwaves of social media. A good and nice story, unfortunately is not always enticing to the ears. As much as we may complain about the prevalent violence
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“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift” – Steve Prefontaine Me and my Mother -2015 Life is funny. How we start is not necessarily a guarantee on how we will finish. What we thought was true ten years ago may be different now for us today. How we define
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“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.” – Martin Luther I recently celebrated my forty-seventh birthday and as I get closer to that magic number of fifty, I’m realizing there are fewer things that impact me the way they
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“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway If you have ever been in the car with a group of young kids, this is a question that you would hear quite often while on a road trip. Whether the
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds could have done them 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;
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“People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.” – Eddie Huang How many times have you looked in the mirror and observed only what you believe to be a flaw while others would say it’s a beauty mark? Or do you ever wonder
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“Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.” – Joni Eareckson Tada I’ve always loved sitting in the window seat while flying. There is something about taking off and watching the plane rise above the ground at 400-500 miles per hour that excites me. Call it the kid in me, but
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“Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.” – Kim II-sung “The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman’s finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.” – Margaret Sanger So often when we hear any form of the word submit, it can take us
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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie I can recall driving on the road on many occasions and accidentally cutting someone off. As I looked over to apologize to the driver, all
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