"This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths...Once we truly know that life is difficult -- once we truly understand and accept it -- then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters."
-- M. Scott Peck"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin
where he was."
-- Richard L. Evans"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."
-- William Osler"The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn."
-- Peter McWilliams"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
-- Anais Nin"Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men."
-- Albert Einstein"Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box."
-- Italian Proverb"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."
-- Lou HoltzThe first and last lesson is that there will always be more lessons.
"Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong."
-- Sydney J. Harris"A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind."
-- John Neal"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
-- e.e. cummings"Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point."
-- Harold B. MelchartLife is an adventure to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
-- Michelangelo"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand."
-- Woodrow Wilson"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
-- L.P.Sanadhya"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips."
-- Oliver Goldsmith"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
-- Henri Bergson"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts."
-- Booker T. Washington"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
-- Katharine Butler Hathaway"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many--not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."
-- Charles Dickens"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody will believe them."
-- The Old Farmer's Almanac"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
-- Robert Schuller"Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen."
-- Sarah Ban Breathnach"Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires."
-- Randolph S. Bourne"Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."
-- Marie Curie"Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved."
-- D. H. Lawrence"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."
-- Mike Krzyzewski"Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life."
-- Harvey Mackay"Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves."
-- Zig Ziglar"The only way to enjoy anything in life is to earn it first."
-- found in a fortune cookie"There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything."
-- Brian Griese"Your choices today determine your tomorrow and you make your life through the power of choice."
-- Kathy Smith"To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life."
-- Robert Louis Stevenson"Without discipline, there's no life at all."
-- Katherine Hepburn"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
-- Muhammad Ali"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life."
-- J. E. Buchrose"Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it."
-- Salma Hayek"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
-- Maya Angelou"The longest journey is the journey inward."
-- Dag Hammarskjold"He not busy being born is busy dying."
-- Bob Dylan"Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die."
-- Amelia BurrLife Quotations [page 3]
This great game of basketball can, of course, be a fun and enjoyable experience. But this game also demands discipline, hard work, and mental toughness. Lessons learned on the basketball court can almost always be applied off the court. If you learn from it, something great can be taken from every experience.
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