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Sometimes its not enough to do your best, sometimes you must do what is required
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Originally Posted by ballislife32688
this movie and this quote changed my life about a year ago. It stuck with me please watch and listen
trust me go watch the movie. I didnt even wanna see it at first, I walked out of there on a mission and havent looked back sinceOriginally Posted by CP3isdatruth
Originally Posted by ballislife32688
this movie and this quote changed my life about a year ago. It stuck with me please watch and listen
never saw this before and it was GREAT!!! thanks for sharing that homie!!!
Originally Posted by TheNTGuy
Being lucky is when hard work and luck meet.
TheNTGuy
I like that. Yea I just came up with mine the other day for a paper I had to writeOriginally Posted by AirPhilippines
Originally Posted by TheNTGuy
Being lucky is when hard work and luck meet.
TheNTGuy
I heard something similar. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity
^^^ I know this is off topic but how do you stop this from happening?? ( the photobucket bandwith exceeded thing)Originally Posted by amaranthine
Originally Posted by AirPhilippines
Originally Posted by TheNTGuy
Being lucky is when hard work and luck meet.
TheNTGuy
I heard something similar. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity
Originally Posted by Food4Thgt
^^^ I know this is off topic but how do you stop this from happening?? ( the photobucket bandwith exceeded thing)Originally Posted by amaranthine
this just got me ready for battle, im sore and in pain but I dont care time to keep pushing.Originally Posted by AG 47
We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful, there is no other way.
- Earl G. Graves (Founder and publisher of Black Enterprise magazine)
this is some crazy stuff right here, I wasnt expecting that. Btw your sigOriginally Posted by 3900stabler
This is not a quote but a very motivational piece. FYI there is a quote at the bottom of this text.
[h1]RESPONDING TO ADVERSITY[/h1]
A daughter complained to her father about her life and how
things were so hard for her. She did not how she was going to
make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and
struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.
Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three
pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots
came to a boil. In one he placed carrots, in the second he
placed eggs, and the last he placed ground coffee beans. He let
them sit and boil, without saying a word.
The daughter sucked her teeth and impatiently waited, wondering
what he was doing. In about twenty minutes he and turned off the
burners. He fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. He
pulled the eggs out and placed them a bowl. Then he ladled the
coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her he asked. "Darling, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she replied.
[h2]He brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She[/h2]
did and noted that they were soft. He then asked her to take an
egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the
hard-boiled egg.
Finally, he asked her to sip the coffee. She smiled as she
tasted its rich aroma.
She humbly asked. "What does it mean Father?"
He explained that each of them had faced the same adversity,
boiling water, but each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. But after
being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became
weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had
protected its liquid interior. But after sitting through the
boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique however. After they were in
the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you," he asked his daughter. "When adversity knocks
on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a
coffee bean? "
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How about you?
Are you the carrot that seems hard, but with pain and adversity
do you wilt and become soft and lose your strength?
Are you the egg, which starts off with a malleable heart? Were
you a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a divorce, or
a layoff have you become hardened and stiff. Your shell looks the
same, but are you bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and
heart?
Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean changes the hot water,
the thing that is bringing the pain, to its peak flavor reaches
212 degrees Fahrenheit. When the water gets the hottest, it just
tastes better.
If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you
get better and make things better around you .
"The greatest part of our happiness or misery depends on our
disposition and not our circumstances." ---- Martha Washington