Favorite Inspirational Quotes

Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.

Charlie “Tremendous” Jones

Seems like this quote goes along with the philosophy of learning a lesson from what happens to you.  You keep learning so that you can work on achieving your potential.  Only thing is - how do I determine what I was intended to be?

I’ve read the books and done the exercises and even with all that, at this late stage, I still don’t have the answer.  Sometimes I think what we are intended to be changes as we grow older and change as well.  What I thought I was intended to be 15 - 20 years ago is very different from what I think now.

I do like that this quote and Mr. Jones do admit that it breaks your heart when things go wrong.  I hate being on the horns of a dilemma like I am now.  Whatever choice I make, I feel will be wrong in some way.  It’s hard not to be bitter about things that happen.

But he’s right that you can’t just quit.  You do have to keep on living right to the end.  I still feel and believe that this life is an adventure meant to be experienced and lived.  So when any choice I make appears to be wrong on some level, I just do the best I can, minimize the damage, and live with the results.  At the very least, I have more of the adventure.

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