Walt Oleksy (RIP 2021)
Beloved Grand Eagle
Several people have recently posted asking how long it takes for Dr. Sarno's theories on TMS pain to heal. Forest and Herbie and others have said those in pain should not expect a time frame for healing but to concentrate on discovering the repressed emotions that cause TMS pain. It takes time and work for most of us, but we do heal.
I thought it would be helpful to start a thread on perseverance, because that's one of the main secrets to healing.
I've done some book reading and surfed the web and found some very good quotes from famous people who have become successes in many fields and efforts because they never gave up. I hope they can inspire those who are working toward their healing.
Here goes:
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich
He conquers who endures. ~Persius
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown
Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying
Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. ~Vivian Komori
You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage. ~Joe Namath
Never stop pedaling to power your dreams. ~Terri Guillemets
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown
One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~William James
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~André A. Jackson
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale
Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis
My thought: And just give love. To others and to yourself, and keep giving love.
I thought it would be helpful to start a thread on perseverance, because that's one of the main secrets to healing.
I've done some book reading and surfed the web and found some very good quotes from famous people who have become successes in many fields and efforts because they never gave up. I hope they can inspire those who are working toward their healing.
Here goes:
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. ~Josh Billings
The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground. ~Author Unknown
Fall seven times, stand up eight. ~Japanese Proverb
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. ~Newt Gingrich
He conquers who endures. ~Persius
The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running. ~Author unknown, in reference to Ecclesiastes 9:11
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. ~Albert Einstein
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another. ~Walter Elliott, The Spiritual Life
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. ~G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession, 1893
There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling. ~Lucretius
Don't be discouraged. It's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. ~Author Unknown
Saints are sinners who kept on going. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ~Buddhist Saying
Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce. ~Vivian Komori
You learn you can do your best even when it's hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage. ~Joe Namath
Never stop pedaling to power your dreams. ~Terri Guillemets
I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown
One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French Proverb
Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. ~Robert Schuller
Sometimes you must cross a bridge and other times you need to burn it. But, always keep building one and never lose your faith in life. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald
With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton
When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. ~Author Unknown
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ~William James
Difficult things take a long time, impossible things a little longer. ~André A. Jackson
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~Earl Nightingale
Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. ~William Feather
Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ~Christopher Morley
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. ~Jacob A. Riis
My thought: And just give love. To others and to yourself, and keep giving love.
