Snapshots of an Ordinary Woman: Succeeding in Life

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Succeeding in Life

"To know that one person has breathed easier because you have lived-- that is to have succeeded."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've come to a point in life where there is a big fork in the road, a major choice and I am the only the one who can decide it. There's a career way and then there's a side where I can live. Two major opportunities, both that sound wonderful, but I can't have two lives.
I was thinking about this quote from Emerson (I love what he has to say sometimes) and it just strikes me. I want to live. I want to not know what tomorrow will bring, but instead to take it for all it's worth. To make the risks, to make the choice I need too without having to worry about everything like money, or time, or stress. I want to live because God tells us that when we do, when we live for him, we affect the lives of so many people. We don't even know. I anticipate the day in heaven when a stranger comes up to me and says thank you. And I have no clue who they are or what I've done.
I don't want to go through life just for a career and money. Though I would enjoy a very good, fancy job, that's not what living is to me. I want to enjoy life without stress. To travel, to do the impossible (because nothing is impossible), to get married, and live a life of spontaneity.
When you don't know who what is coming next; what exactly God is going to put in your path....that is to have succeeded.

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Defining Quotes

"My life can only ever be a lesson to me. The four key things that it has taught me thus far:
After night comes day.
After death comes life.
Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone.
You are loved."
-Pack up the Moon

"Forget what happened before, and DO NOT think about the past. Look at the new thing I am GOING to do. It is already happening. Don't you see it?"
-Isaiah 43:18

"I am your refuge and your strength. Even though the earth gives way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, do not fear. I am an ever present help in trouble."
Psalm 46:1-3

"But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It's natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy us and it can save. We all have regrets--Some tragedies are of our doing and then sometimes things happen that are out of this world's control and when it happens, it can take our breath away.
Happiness is a gift. It washes its warmth over us and reminds us of beauty."
-Pack up the Moon

"I am dying from grief; my years are shortened by sadness. Misery has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within. But I am trusting you, O Lord, saying. 'You are my God!' My future is in your hands."
-Psalm 31:10, 14-15

"There's nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve."
- Og Mandino

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "
-Henry David Thoreau

"Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The unfailing love of the Lord never ends!"
-Lamentations 3:21

A Runner

I am a passionate about running.
It is in my soul.

"The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running."
-Nike running poster

"I ran to be free; I ran to avoid pain; I ran to feel pain; I ran our of love and hate and anger and joy."
-DAGNY SCOTT

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
-GEORGE SHEENAN

"Learn to run when feeling the pain: then push harder."
-WILLIAM SIGEI

"Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be."
-DR. GEORGE SHEEHAN

"If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it."
-PRISCILLA WELCH

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world is a mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How muc you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if yo uknow what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit and not pointing fingers saying you ain't wher eyo uare because of him, or her, or anybody."
-ROCKY BALBOA

"You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running."
-FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER and JON HANC

"Running is a thing worth doing not because of the future rewards it bestows, but because of how it feeds our bodies and minds and souls in the present."
-KEVIN NELSON

"Running is elementary. It is elegant in its simplicity."
-JOHN BINGHAM, The Courage To Start

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Succeeding in Life

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