I need a little inspiration...

 

I was beginning to feel a little overwhelmed with the list of endless tasks on my to-do list, so I decided to do a little reading and came across a list of inspirational quotes. (In other words, this is my feel-good blog for myself, and I don't have a lot to add, but it feels good to write it down.) 

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.”
- Pope John Paul I

And the seasons, they go round and round,
And the painted ponies go up and down.
We're captive on the carousel of time.
We can't return, we can only look
Behind from where we came,
And go round and round and round in the circle game.
- - - Tom Rush, "The Circle Game"

“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
– Hellen Keller

Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.
Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.
- - - Kris Kristofferson, "Me and Bobby McGee"

  

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there”
- Will Rogers

If you said good-bye to me tonight,
There would still be music left to write.
- - - Billy Joel, "The Longest Time"

“To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.”
- St Catherine of Siena

My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue.
An everlasting vision of the ever-changing view.
- - - Carole King "Tapestry"

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
- Thomas A Edison 

She's got a way about her,
And everywhere she goes,
a million dreams of love surround her,
everywhere.
- - - Billy Joel "She's Got a Way" 

 

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

- Dale Carnegie

 

There are many here among us
who think life is but a joke
but you and I, we've been through that;
this is not our fate.
Let us not speak falsely now, the hour's getting late.
- - - Bob Dylan, "All Along the Watchtower"

 

“Hard work spotlights the character of people. Some turn up their sleeves. Some turn up their noses, and some don’t turn up at all.”
- Sam Ewing

 

“Many of life’s failures are people who had not realized how close they were to success when they gave up.”
- Thomas A Edison