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I to all My New Year Knockout buddies. I found these quotes and thaught I would share.

~You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

-Henry David Thoreau

~Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

-Henry David Thoreau

~Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake

-Henry David Thoreau

~The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

~Failures do what is tenson relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.

-Dennis Waitley

~I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure-which is: Try to please everybody else

-Herbert Bayard Swope

~Success does not conist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time

-Josh Billings

~Our Doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt

-William Shakespeare

~The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

-Elbert Hubbard

~Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

-Washington Irving

~Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right

-Henry Ford

~The Journey is the reward

-Chinese proverb

~Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs

-Henry Ford

~Don't let what you can not do interfere with what you can do

-John Wooden

~Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

-Alfred A. Montapert

~Courage is fear holding on a minute longer

-General S Patton

~Love never fails; Character never quits; and with patience and persistence; dreams do come true

-Pete Maravichs

~Obstacles don't hae to stop you. If you run into a wall don't turn around and give up, Figure out how to climb it, go through is, or work around it

-Michael Jordan

Hope there is something in here for everyone to get a little inspiration

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Thanks! Always nice to have a reminder that we should never underestimate the power of positive thinking!

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WONDERFUL thread.

Thank you for starting it.

My contribution is some art from Van Gogh:

VanGoghNuitdetoilessurleRone.jpg

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and some other art from Maxfield Parrish:

Enchantment.jpg

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I believe that God only gives three answers to prayer:

1. "YES!"

2. "Not yet."

3. " I have something better in mind."

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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