Kathzoofus

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." — Winston S. Churchill

As you are shifting, you will begin to realize that you are not the same person you used to be.  The things you used to tolerate have now become intolerable.  Where you once remained quiet, you are now speaking your truth.  Where you once battled and argued, you are now choosing to remain silent.  You are beginning to understand the value of your voice and recognize that there are some situations that no longer deserve time, energy and focus. -Source Unknown

 You're responsible for how long you let what hurt you haunt you. -LaTisha Cotto

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

From   Stillness Speaks, by Eckhart Tolle . "Surrender is surrender to this moment, not to a story through which you interpret this moment and then try to resign yourself to it. For instance, you may have a disability and can't walk anymore. The condition is as it is. Perhaps your mind is now creating a story that says, "This is what my life has come to. I have ended up in a wheelchair. Life has treated me harshly and unfairly. I don't deserve this." Can you accept the ISNESS of this moment and not confuse it with the story the mind has created around it?"

 "Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures don't matter. Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be." ~Sean Higgins

  “Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt 

  “If an egg is broken by an outside force, life ends. If broken by an inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from the inside.” ~Jim Kwik

  “One life. Just one. Why are we not running like we are on fire towards our wildest dreams?”  ~unknown

 " Uncertainty is hard. Hope requires us to use our imaginations—to see in our mind’s eye a future moment that is better than the present moment. I’ll try if you will." ~Maggie Smith, poet

  "...true power is characterized by a degree of behavioral sovereignty; acting with intention & care even when we feel scared & powerless." ~Jessica Dore

 " When you don’t speak it, you store it. And that shit gets heavy. Release it. Let it go. Stop suffering in silence. Talk about what you’re going through so you can grow through it. It’s time to evolve." ~Nimai Delgado

 " Fear of failure is higher when you're not working on the problem. If you are taking action, you are less worried about failure because you realize you can influence the outcome." ~James Clear

" Unless we are very, very careful, we doom each other by holding onto images of one another based on preconceptions that are in turn based on indifference to what is other than ourselves. This indifference can be, in its extreme, a form of murder and seems to me a rather common phenomenon. We claim autonomy for ourselves and forget that in so doing we can fall into the tyranny of defining other people as we would like them to be. By focusing on what we choose to acknowledge in them, we impose an insidious control on them. I notice that I have to pay careful attention in order to listen to others with an openness that allows them to be as they are, or as they think themselves to be. The shutters of my mind habitually flip open and click shut, and these little snaps form into patterns I arrange for myself. The opposite of this inattention is love, is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy and allows mutual discovery." Anne Truitt

"Life will present you with unexpected opportunities, and you won't always know in advance which are the important moments. Above all, it's the quality of your relationships that will determine the quality of your life. Invest in your connections, even those that seem inconsequential. " Esther Perel, Therapist

"I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!" Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

"Optimism is usually defined as a belief that things will go well. But that's incomplete. Sensible optimism is a belief that the odds are in your favor, and over time things will balance out to a good outcome even if what happens in between is filled with misery. And in fact you   know   it will be filled with misery. You can be optimistic that the long-term growth trajectory is up and to the right, but equally sure that the road between now and then is filled with landmines, and always will be. Those two things are not mutually exclusive." He also writes: "Optimism and pessimism can coexist. If you look hard enough you’ll see them next to each other in virtually every successful company and successful career. They seem like opposites, but they work together to keep everything in balance." Morgan Housel in The Psychology of Money

"I'd always thought negative emotions were a sign of weakness and linked them to failure and self-judgment. Coach's comment, though, showed me negative feelings could have a positive reasoning: My disappointment was rooted in a desire to be better.  My place wasn't what mattered to Coach. What mattered was my commitment." From the book "Let Your Mind Run: A Memoir of Thinking My Way to Victory", by Deena Kastor & Michelle Hamilton

"A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push." ~Ludwig Wittgenstein

"We are made for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of the upper and lower teeth. To act against one another then is contrary to nature; and it is acting against one another to be vexed and to turn away." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.1