- The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- There is no success like failure.
- Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Dennis P. Kimbro
- When I hear somebody sigh, “Life is hard,” I am always tempted to ask, “compared to what?” Sydney Harris
- There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.” Josiah Gilbert Holland
- To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. Thomas Watson, Sr.
- In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.
- Loves makes everything better.
- Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day–out.
- Time + life. Master your time and you will master your life.
- Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Die with memories, not dreams.
- In today’s rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.
- Life is about making an impact, not making an income.
- There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
- The mind is everything. What you think you become.
- Seek the greatness in life, ignore the rest.
- Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
- Learn from your mistakes, so don’t just ignore them.
- All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
- Success is 1% inspiration and 99% work.
- Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
- The road to success is always under construction.
How much lint can you get out of a towel in 27 years, and still have a towel in usable condition? I have had a set of towels for 27 years. I remember how old they are because they were a gift from one of our daughters when we moved into our present house.
After each time I dry my towels in the dryer, I clean out the lint trap. And each time there is lint. Sometimes the lint is thick and sometimes not so much. New towels surrender a sizable portion of themselves when dried in the dryer. As they age, the lint volume decreases, understandably so, but it never disappears—or does it, and when?
With that said, I know that they can still shed lint after 27 years and still counting. How do they still shed? There can be only a certain amount of threads in a piece of cloth after their creation. If a person had saved all of the lint from all of the favorite towel drying sessions, would it equal more than one towel? Well, would it. Twenty-seven years of shedding is a lot of threads. Where do they come from? Do our towels regenerate themselves between washings while sitting on a shelf or in a linen closet or in a drawer?
Granted, new towels are designated to the towel rack for “show off purposes only” for the length of time it is before new towels are purchased (change of color scheme in the bathroom, a special anniversary gift, older towels are fraying) so they are washed more on a monthly basis as opposed to daily or weekly... But these towels have been front and center and used daily to weekly for probably, at the very least, 15 years, and they are still absorbent.
Once again, HOW? If the anchor thread (whichever one that is) some day sheds, will it be all over for my favorite towels? Will they simply be out of my washer and sitting in my lint trap? Hmm.
I looked up the word oxymoron because I really thought my thinking of two words not belonging in the same sentence was a justified concern. And I was right. Oxymoron means contradiction, inconsistency, conflict, oddity, absurdity, enigma, puzzle.
And what are the two words you see in the same sentence often and have always wondered, “What the Heck? Well for all of these years you have been right and you have probably appropriately reacted. The two words are, of course, diet and exercise.
Why put those two words together when the question of how can one diet (scrimp on the foods that give you comfort and energy) and at the same time exert oneself without the proper intake of sugars and carbs (the comfort and energy foods)?
To diet properly, one needs to prepare low calorie, low sugar snacks and have them ready to go in the refrigerator. Right? Of course, that’s right. The only exercise you will have strength for is to go back and forth to the refrigerator for the healthy foods. And don’t forget the water.
To exercise correctly, one needs to eat foods with carbs and sugar for strength purposes—well at least for energy. Exercising requires more than several trips back and forth to the refrigerator. Exercising requires extreme spurts of exertion, so an ice chest nearby to hold chocolate bars, a cold beer or two, some chips and dips, perhaps some deep fried chicken wings for energy boosts is required.
You do see that those two words together are a huge contradiction. Certainly, at the very least, a conflict and are utterly absurd. So do yourself a favor and pick one. Avoid the oxymoron. Choose words that are compatible: Dieting and sitting with a good book OR exercising and eating.
