Inspirational Thread

Since I've been feeling kind of down, and I know a few others who are also, I thought I'd just make a thread meant to be uplifting. Just post inspirational quotes, videos, pictures, anything really ;D.

I'll start, since its almost SuperBowl Sunday, a quote from Vince Lombardi (the trophy is named after him oo)

"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

 

Nice thread, Cake...

 

[video=youtube;Uk2tVpO_ca0]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk2tVpO_ca0[/video]

song itself isn't inspiring, but I like the video :')

 

I like these quotes I found.

The secret of many a man's success in the world resides in his insight into the moods of men and his tact in dealing with them.
J. G. Holland

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare

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

 

One of my favourite:
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways, totaly worn out, shouting
"Holy shit... What a ride!"

 

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle

Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot(this is kinda funny )


Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

 

Thought of sharing this story I once found:

I came home from work one day.
When I arrived home,
I was surprised to see my son sitting on the couch watching tv.
I asked what he was doing home?
He replied,
“I got suspended today” as his eyes started to fill with tears.
I said,
“for what?”
He replied quietly
“for fightin’.”
(now my son is some-what of a geek. In a good way of course.
He knows more about computers and gadgets then making friends and social events.
He is also some-what overweight).

Out of curiosity I asked,
“Did ya win?”
His eyes filled with tears as he looked down at the floor and softly said “no.”
He continued to fill in the blanks of the story.
He mentioned that some older kids from school tease him a lot.
And one kid in particular, started calling him “fatty”, “tubby”, “porky”,
and so on. So I said,
“Did ya punch him?” My son,
still looking at the floor said “no, I never even touched him.”
“Then why were you suspended?” I asked.
He slowly looked me in the eyes and said, “because of what I said to him.”
I suddenly found myself on the edge of my seat
wondering what the hell could he have said that would’ve gotten him suspended.
So I insistently said,
“well? What did you say?”
He smiled and asked “promise I won’t get in trouble for telling you?
I already told mom when she picked me up from school
and she said I shouldn’t use that kind of language and she would deal with me when she got home.
” I quickly said “well, if your mom already is going to deal with you,
then I won’t have to… so what’cha say?”
He again smiled and held his head high and sat up straight,
he looked at me and said “I asked the kid if he wanted to know why I was so fat?
I told him that every time I ****ed his mamma, she made me a sandwhich.”




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"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." ~ Winston Churchill

"Pleasing everyone is too hard, but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake."

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...it's learning to dance in the rain."

"If you keep looking behind you how will you ever see what is in front of you?"

 

Love the dancing in the rain quote

 

Rafiki taling to Simba

Simba : look's like the wind is changing.
Rafiki : yes change is good .
Simba : yah but its not easy .. i know what i have to do , but coming back means i have to face my past ..
Rafiki : its donsent matter .. its in the past ..
Simba : yah but still hurts
Rafiki : oh yes the past can hurt , but the way i see it you can either run from it or learn from it ..



LION KING

 

Poem I found

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow,
Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

 

lion king always ruled lol

 

this is the best part for me

 

lol gotta love Lion King ^^

 

[video=youtube;NdBV7LTd07g]http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdBV7LTd07g[/video]

i like this one the best
and this can be thought as inspiring video :3

 

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 

lol ... this part is part where simba is talking to his father ( muffasa ) the next part is the part that i pots here .. lmao

p.s you really watch the video ... lmao

 

i know what part this is, i just love the scene lol, its so emotional T.T

 

when father and son meets again

 

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a
good mood and always has something positive to say. When
someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I
were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad
day, Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the
positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to
Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive
person all of the time. How do you do it?"

Michael replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself,
'Mike, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a
good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to
be in a good mood.

"Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim
or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.

"Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to
accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of
life. I choose the positive side of life."

"Yeah, right, it isn't that easy," I protested.

"Yes, it is," Michael said. Life is all about choices. When you
cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose
how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect
your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. "The
bottom line is: It's your choice how you live life."

I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the tower industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a
serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications
tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care,
Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his
back.

I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked
him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins.
Wanna see my scars?"

I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone
through his mind as the accident took place. "The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of my soon-to-be-
born daughter," Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

Michael continued, "The paramedics were great.They kept
telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me
into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors
and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked. "Well, there was a big burly nurse
shouting questions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was
allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses
stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep
breath and yelled, 'Gravity.' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'."

Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.