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Quotable Quotes: Life’s a Journey

by Miki Saxon

There is an Indian saying that a journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step, but as Anonymous reminds us, “If you don’t start you won’t arrive.”

You will travel further if you follow Alan McGinnis’ advice, “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.”

Life is a long journey during which it is good to remember the words of Arthur Koestler, “Courage is to never let your actions be influenced by your fears.”

Years ago Dear Abby responded to a reader in her mid thirties who had come into enough money to follow a dream and become a doctor. Friends were discouraging her because by the time she finished her residency she would be in her mid-forties and she asked what Abby thought. I’ve never forgotten the answer; Abby said that while it was true she would be in her forties when she became a doctor in ten years she would be in her forties no matter what she did. A shorter version is offered by George Eliot said, “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

In that same vein are the inspiring words of Mary Engelbreit, “If your ship hasn’t come in—swim out to it.”

Our lives and who we are reflect our experiences. Most people believe we each have only one life to live, but you can live many lives through books as Charles Scribner reminds us, “Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”

In closing I offer the sage advice of two very different people, one from the world of music and the other from the world of sports.

Ray Charles said, “Don’t go backwards, you’ve already been there,” while Will Foley reminds us, “The world is full of cactus, but you don’t have to sit on them.”

Both are ideas I work hard to adhere to.

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