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kqedscience: Athlete Aimee Mullins “Born without fibulae in both legs, Aimee’s medical prognosis was discouraging; she was told she would never walk, and would likely spend the rest of her life using a wheelchair. In an attempt for an outside chance at independent mobility, doctors amputated both her legs below the knee on her first birthday. The decision paid off. By age two, she had learned to walk on prosthetic legs, and spent her childhood doing the usual athletic activities of her peers: swimming, biking, softball, soccer, and skiing, always alongside “able-bodies” kids.”

kqedscience:

Athlete Aimee Mullins

“Born without fibulae in both legs, Aimee’s medical prognosis was discouraging; she was told she would never walk, and would likely spend the rest of her life using a wheelchair. In an attempt for an outside chance at independent mobility, doctors amputated both her legs below the knee on her first birthday. The decision paid off. By age two, she had learned to walk on prosthetic legs, and spent her childhood doing the usual athletic activities of her peers: swimming, biking, softball, soccer, and skiing, always alongside “able-bodies” kids.”

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January 09, 2012
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eject: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying

kellyoxford:

From Arise India Forum:

“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives

People grow a lot when they are faced with their own…

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This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.

Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.

Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”

Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe … life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

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Relevant magazine

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May 26, 2011
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"Because I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. You’ll see that there is life in the desert, that there are stars in the heavens, and that tribesmen fight because they are part of the human race. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living right now"

— The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (via jeansandsneakers)

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March 06, 2011
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Windsor, UK this weekend.

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March 01, 2011
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30 second Speech by Bryan Dyson (former CEO of Coca Cola)

Saw this today and really enjoyed it. Bolded parts that particularly spoke to me.
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Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – work, family, health, friends and spirit … and you’re keeping all of these in the air.

You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends and spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these, they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for Balance in your life.

How?

Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important. Only you know what is best for you.

Don’t take for granted the things closest to your heart. Cling to them as you would your life, for without them, life is meaningless.

Don’t let your life slip through your fingers by living in the past or for the future. By living your life one day at a time, you live all the days of your life.

Don’t give up when you still have something to give. Nothing is really over until the moment you stop trying.

Don’t be afraid to admit that you are less than perfect. It is this fragile thread that binds us to each together.

Don’t be afraid to encounter risks. It is by taking chances that we learn how to be pave.

Don’t shut love out of your life by saying it’s impossible to find time. The quickest way to receive love is to give; the fastest way to lose love is to hold it too tightly; and the best way to keep love is to give it wings!

Don’t run through life so fast that you forget not only where you’ve been, but also where you are going.

Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

Don’t be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily.

Don’t use time or words carelessly. Neither can be retrieved. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way…
–Brian G. Dyson

President and CEO, Coca-Cola Enterprises during his speech at the Georgia Tech 172nd Commencement Address Sept. 6, 1996

from http://www.dankind.com/blog/speech-by-bryan-dyson-ceo-coca-cola/

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February 15, 2011
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2011

Some New Year’s Resolutions I read in the Goop Newsletter today. #goodstuff

To usher in a new era of global peace, environmental stewardship, and general good vibes through the power of pressed, unpasteurized juice.
- Philip Otto


To keep faith and focus on the goodness in humanity even in the current world atmosphere of terrorist threats, economic  worry and environmental concern. The time to have faith is when we need it, and we need it now!
- Dr. Karen Binder-Brynes


My New Year’s Resolution in 2011 is to unplug completely on the Sundays from all internet, emails, text messages and other social media and turn everything off except for the old fashioned broadcast TV to watch a football game or 2. Hopefully this will also eventually lead to Saturday inclusion for an invasion and detachment-free weekend with my wife and 2 boys … who knows where this may lead??  Family book reading?? Silly word games?? Comfortable stretches of quiet??  God, how nerve-wracking the idea??!!
-Mario Batali


I don’t typically believe in waiting a year to “resolve.” It should be a daily thing, I’ll say, to communicate on a deeper level with the people I love (not just in my music…). And to not eat french fries everyday!
- Jay-Z


This year I will not allow doubts to diminish my belief in myself, knowing that the only limits are the ones I put on myself. I will accomplish great things by awakening and sustaining certainty in my abilities and what I can accomplish for myself my family and the world. 
- Michael Berg


My New Years Resolution is to invest more in people who are ‘like-hearted.’   I sometimes find myself trying to change people and things in my life that will probably never change or can’t be fixed.  Years can sometimes pass by so quickly, and it’s important to always surround yourself with people who respect your gifts and are in your life for the right reasons. 
- Tracy Anderson


Do not get upset for stupid things
Do Pilates 3 times a week
Wear a helmet when I ski
- Valentino

Flow
- Deepak Chopra


In the year 2011, I’m gonna lose 15 pounds, 10 pounds, 3 pounds. 3 pounds is doable. I could totally lose 3 pounds. And I will quit introducing myself to people as Kenny Simon.
- Jimmy Fallon


I don’t do New Year’s resolutions any more. After trying for many years, only to give them up for Lent (LOL!), I finally saw that they were putting me in a wrong relationship with myself. So instead, now I simply carve out a chunk of silent time to reflect deeply on the passing year—the high points, the low points, the gifts, the lessons—and to open a space in my heart to receive the new year, with it own awaiting high points, low points, and lessons. Thus prepared inwardly for the voyage, I then set sail, wherever the winds and currents are to carry me.
- Cynthia Bourgeault


My resolution this year is to use whatever happens—whether challenging or pleasant—as a way to grow.
- Elizabeth Mattis Namgyel

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December 20, 2010
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"The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude, and thus they show each other the greatest possible trust. A merging of two people is an impossibility, and where it seems to exist, it is a hemming-in, a mutual consent that robs one party or both parties of their fullest freedom and development. But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living side-by-side can grow up for them, if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an immense sky."

— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)

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December 20, 2010
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London in the snow. It’s really beautiful.

London in the snow. It’s really beautiful.