Zeno of Citium
"You can have results or excuses. Not both"
"When people said "We never want to look like you" Arnold replied "Don't worry, you never will"
"The worst thing I could be is the same as everybody else. I would hate that"
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Well, that's your opinion, isn't it? And I'm not about to waste my time trying to change it.”
“Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.”
“I am the excuse to explore your identity. To be exactly who you are and to feel unafraid. To not judge yourself, to not hate yourself.”
Lady Gaga
There is no beginning and no end. We never 'arrive' at a peak where the struggle is over. To live loud is to continually challenge ourselves to be better. To 'conquer' ourselves is to consciously go into the wilderness of our fears and face them.
Strength is not nesting in a comfortable cave where we fight to retain these comforts at the expense of the rest of the world. We are hanging on desperately to the paradigm that this comfortable cave is our birthright. We have no birthright, our lives are a gift not something we earned. Everyone of us is a gift.
Those who have done the work to live their passion and stay focused on their dreams are living examples of Zeno's quote. This is how we live in gratitude for the gift of life, how we honour it and ourselves and conquer the world.
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