Tag: Quotes

Only Those Willing To Try The Impossible, Will Actually Know How Close They Are

Cedar Rapids, Iowa airport last month.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot

If you’re goal isn’t impossible, you’re not reaching high enough. – jeff noel

Scroll down to keep reading this blog, or, click Next Blog to move over to Lane 8. It’s a completely different blog about our body – the temple which houses everything that keeps us alive.

When You Think You Have Done All You Can Do, You Are Finally Ready To Begin

In St Louis last month I took a fun picture and an inspirational one.

Thomas Edison & jeff noel think impossible is for amateurs. Who said what?

  1. When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven’t.
  2. When you think you have done all you can do, you are finally ready to begin.

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Easy Part

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult. – Goethe

Do you focus on fundamentals? I mean life’s basic truths? Can you imagine the success you’d achieve if you’d embrace a lifestyle as Goethe suggests?

These are the things that set people on a trajectory for greater peace and contentment. Or not. Put up or shut up.

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Wednesday Quotes, 1/5

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead. – Louisa May Alcott

I’ve been sayin’ the same thing at Lane 8 for years. It’s the…

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Too Late?

“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late.

Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain at flood — it ebbs.

We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is adamant to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, ‘Too late’.”  — Martin Luther King Jr

Dying isn’t the sad part. What’s tragic is living like we’re dead. Carpe diem is never overused when it’s your daily battle cry.

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