For truly motivated people success is necessary- not an option
- J. Erving
Note to R & This applies to all areas of a balanced life: School, sports, career, fitness, etc.
What will you have success or failure? The choice is yours...........

"Walking humbly is walking tall. Dignity is the essence of  humility and modesty. The splendor of humility is majestic and  aristocratic. Humility that suppresses the human spirit and denies individual sovereignty is not humility at all"
Simon Jacobson
A Spiritual Guide to the counting of the Omer Forty-Nine Steps to Personal Refinement

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not,and never persist in trying to set people right."
Hannah Whitall Smith

"When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else"
Joseph Campbell

"I must govern the clock, not be governed by it"
Golda Meir

"A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing tosacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done."
Vince Lombardi

"It is easy to see the reflections in the water; The difficulty lies in recognizing the truth when it appears
~J. Krentz

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away
Contained in a piece by George Carlin
Favorite line of Bonnie Gorbaty CEO Founder Inner Resources

"Tribal Arrogance cannot be truths
Irshad Manji

"Circumstance--which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all--and will be."
Mark Twain in Eruption

"Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother."
"If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does exist; that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it."
Voltaire

"Everybody wants to know what I am on. What am I on? I'm on my bike ... six hours a day. What are you on?'
Lance Armstrong (NIKE ad)
The best in all endeavors, whether sports or whatever field; the superstars in every arena; Do more. Practice More. Train more and Prepare more than anyone else

"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."
Henry C. Link

"You cannot play the game of life with sweaty palms"
Dr. Phil," Phillip C. McGraw

"G-d comes to the hungry in the form of food."
-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
My friend Kenny Kaufman says,
" There is only one G-d....Your G-d"

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that
Martin Luther King Jr

Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot.   After 75 combat
missions, his plane was destroyed by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb
ejected and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6
years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal!

One day, while Plumb was in a restaurant, a man at
another table came up and said, "Hey aren't you Plumb! You flew jet fighters in
Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!"

"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb.

"I packed your parachute," the man said, "I guess it worked !"
Plumb replied, "It sure did. If it hadn't  I wouldn't be here today."

All night, Plumb kept thinking about that man.
"I kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a white
hat; a bib in the back; and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many
times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are
you?' or anything because,  I was a fighter pilot and he was
just a sailor." Plumb  thought of the many hours the sailor had spent at
a long wooden table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the
shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each
time the fate of someone he didn't know.
..Who's packing your parachute? Everyone
has someone who provides part of what they need to make it through the day. Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is
really important. We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you,
congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them,
give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason. We will all be better off and perhaps even set more positive trends in motion by, recognizing the people who pack our parachutes.

"Think happy thoughts and you can fly."
Peter Pan

"Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will
Jawaharial Nehru

"We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains--chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment--in a word, circumstance--and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle ....................."
- "3,000 Years Among the Microbes
Samuel Clemens>

"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
Vince Lombardi

"I think your heart grows back bigger after it is broken"
Diane Lane character in the movie
Must Love Dogs

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win "
Sun-tzu, The Art of War

"True Love is your souls recognition of its counterpart in another."
From the movie "Wedding Crashers"
Owen Wilson's character to Rachel McAdams' character

"For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God,
not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition?
Is it not merely a hard word for 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within'?
Heaven is neither a place nor a time."
-Florence Nightingale (1820-1910