See Cenedella, the post that is not mine, but quoted, on this day, 4th of July....
This is cool. Hope you are reading....I get inspiration and passion from reading, but also from within, a culmination of who I have become. Everyday is a new day, and a new beginning. If we all could change our attitudes and aspire, and JUST BE, the best we can envision, WOW! What a different world this could be. TRY TO ASPIRE.
Monday, July 4, 2011
4th of July, ASPIRE....www.Cenedella.com. Quoted from Marc....
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, 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 the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.
That’s Teddy Roosevelt speaking at the Sorbonne a century ago in 1910.
There’s no storybook about “The Boy Who Followed Somebody Else’s Dream”, no movie rights sold for the tale of “It Wasn’t Within My Purview To Consider Alternatives”, no Sinatra tune entitled “I Did It The Way My Critics Requested I Do It”.
All the songs, all the movies, all the books say the same damn thing about you and your dream for a reason — because it’s true!
You’ll be on a stone slab someday too soon — far too soon — and your children will look at you and you’ll look at yourself, and you’re going to ask, and they’re going to ask, and wherever you are right now just do me a favor and…
…and listen to the wind breathe.
And count the years between here and birth — your birth, on the occasion of the country’s birth — and count the years between here and death.
And count the words of your loved ones, and your family, and your friends, and your kids, and your own words in your own head about who you are and who you want to be and who you always wanted to be. And realize that that is beautiful. And that is what you were made for.
And count the words of the critics and naysayers and the negative people in your life and the words they’ve piled up like stones for you with their wants and their desires and their demands of you.
Count the piles and feel their weight and add them up and ask yourself…
Which one do you want to carry with you to the end? Which one do you want to carry for the rest of your days?
Which one is worthy of you?
This Fourth of July, declare your independence from your critics.
It’s you who counts.
That’s Teddy Roosevelt speaking at the Sorbonne a century ago in 1910.
There’s no storybook about “The Boy Who Followed Somebody Else’s Dream”, no movie rights sold for the tale of “It Wasn’t Within My Purview To Consider Alternatives”, no Sinatra tune entitled “I Did It The Way My Critics Requested I Do It”.
All the songs, all the movies, all the books say the same damn thing about you and your dream for a reason — because it’s true!
You’ll be on a stone slab someday too soon — far too soon — and your children will look at you and you’ll look at yourself, and you’re going to ask, and they’re going to ask, and wherever you are right now just do me a favor and…
…and listen to the wind breathe.
And count the years between here and birth — your birth, on the occasion of the country’s birth — and count the years between here and death.
And count the words of your loved ones, and your family, and your friends, and your kids, and your own words in your own head about who you are and who you want to be and who you always wanted to be. And realize that that is beautiful. And that is what you were made for.
And count the words of the critics and naysayers and the negative people in your life and the words they’ve piled up like stones for you with their wants and their desires and their demands of you.
Count the piles and feel their weight and add them up and ask yourself…
Which one do you want to carry with you to the end? Which one do you want to carry for the rest of your days?
Which one is worthy of you?
This Fourth of July, declare your independence from your critics.
It’s you who counts.
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