Tag: Quotes

Life is not a dress rehearsal has origins other than Mid Life Celebration

Randy Pausch and his three young children
Randy Pausch wrote The Last Lecture so his three children would know him after he died

 

Mid Life Celebration was a promise to my children as a college sophomore (1978)
Mid Life Celebration was a promise to my children as a college junior (1979)

 

The clock never stops ticking. Ever.

We get one shot at life (okay, maybe we are reincarnated as another life form, but I can’t say for sure).

We fear death.

We fear not living before we die.

In a busy world I can’t swear I read it first or I thought of it myself.

But I can tell you for sure it’s a fact in my head, my heart, and my actions.

Life is not a dress rehearsal has origins other than Mid Life Celebration.

The full disclosure is – as of today, thanks to the link – it felt natural to let you know that I now know.

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All the different ways of saying it come down to a simple concept

jeff noel blog excerpt
Procrastination is a habit

 

When a famous person says something, we notice. A relative unknown, we deeply discount. For example, this brilliant wisdom:

Carried away by our worries, we’re unable to live fully and happily in the present. Deep down, we believe we can’t really be happy just yet – that we still have more boxes to check off before we can really enjoy life – Thich Naht Hanh

All the different ways of saying it come down to a simple concept:

Live, before you die.

Life is not a dress rehearsal. Live like you mean it!

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Death by apathy?

A solitary perimeter road on southeastern Maui
A solitary perimeter road on southeastern Maui

 

Death by apathy?

What’s happening all around us is astonishingly saddening. And virtually no one is immune.

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. – Alfred Adler

We’re not immune from following the herd, nor from the herd’s insidious denial which remains so prevalent within it’s masses – talking a good talk, but not having the energy nor commitment to walk it.

Those of us here at Mid Life Celebration, maybe we are the hope the world needs.

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Midlife and the art of doing the impossible

Seth Godin excerpt about making art
Making art hurts because it’s scary when it’s done in ways that aren’t normal

 

Thank you Donna Flanagin for sharing this…

Have seen the final sentence as a famous quote, but never in the whole context presented here:

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing. (unsure of source)

Aloha.

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