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Quotes for Life

"Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel. For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should....My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether be life or by death."~ The Apostle Paul: Eph 6:18-20; Phil 1:20

"Lord, I intend it to thy glory, and let no profane misinterpreter abuse it to thy diminution."
~John Donne

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
~ John Adams

"You have enemies? Good. It means you've stood up for something."
~ Winston Churchill

"I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence."
~ Ben Jonson

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

~ George Washington

"Country music is about new love and it’s about old love. It’s about gettin’ drunk and gettin’ sober. It’s about leavin’ and it’s about comin’ home. It’s real music sung by real people for real people, the people that make up the backbone of this country. You can call us rednecks if you want. We’re not offended, ’cause we know what we’re all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary."

~ Jeff Foxworthy

"The most dangerous predator of liberals is the real world. They hide from it in college campuses."
~ www.imao.us

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
~ President Theodore Roosevelt

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!"
~ Edna Ferber

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in an argument."
~ Robert Frost

"I'm a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ."
~Ann Coulter

"Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother."
~ Phyllis Schlafly

"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions."
~ G. K. Chesterson

"It isn't going to bed with a man that proves you're in love with him. It's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful, everyday world with him that counts."
~ Yours, Mine and Ours

"I owe nothing to women's lib."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

~ Henry VI

"We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic."

~ Rush Limbaugh

"True religion and true philosophy must ultimately arrive at the same conclusion."

~S.S. Smith

"There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit."

~ Jack Dake

"If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"What I felt like saying was, 'I've produced my third child and my sixth book since I last saw you. Aren't either of these things more important, more interesting, than my size?' But no - my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book; finally, something to celebrate! Maybe this seems funny or trivial, but it's really not."
~ JK Rowling

"Dear Lord
Lest I continue
My complacent way
Help me to remember
Somehow out there
A man died for me today.
As long as there be war
I then must
Ask and answer
Am I worth dying for?"~Anon
"[Judgment] comes from four sources: God, nature, diligence and conversation. Serve the first, and the rest will serve you."
~ Ben Jonson

"I think political correctness is a wonderful fad. Probably not as spiritually uplifting as the hula-hoop, but undoubtedly better for the health."
~ Waiting for God

"Our God and soldier we alike adore. At the brink of danger, not before. After deliverance, both alike requited. Our God's forgotten and our soldiers slighted."
~ Oliver North

"The way to tell the professional writers from the amateur writers is that the amateurs only write when they feel like it."
~ Jerry Van Cook

"Remember that only in cheesy romance novels is the heroine guaranteed to find true love without the risk of vulnerability or pain."
~ Dear Prudence column

"We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue."
~ from "The Birth of a Nation"

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move."
~Captain America

"While God doesn’t promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity."
~ Tony Snow

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
~ John Stuart Mill

"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. In the fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there. In her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
~ Alexis de Tocqueville

"I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls."
~ J.K. Rowling

Wisdom from the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan:
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Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget...in the final analysis...that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.

June 14, 2011

WWT

I started Week 3 of C25K yesterday. I have to say, I was super intimidated. From Week 1 to Week 2, the run segments increase 50% (60 seconds to 90 seconds). Week 2 to Week 3 - they double (90 seconds to 3 minutes). I knew I was going into it with a major mental hurdle to overcome. So I made it my goal just to finish, not to run hard and fast, but just to finish. And I prayed my way through it, and finished strong! It was such a good feeling. Now that I know I can do those longer runs, I can step up my speed the rest of the week.

Right now I'm trying to keep my mojo up. I have had a really hard time staying motivated the last week or so. Part of it, I know, is because I haven't been getting enough sleep. I'm staying up too late reading and then the dogs unmercifully start to wake me up around 6:45, typically (5:45 today!). That just kills my mood. So I'm working on that. Also, I ate like crap last week, so I know that played a part as well. I'm going to be working on that.

Which leads to this week's WWT topic: lunches. I don't really do lunch. I usually eat something in the morning (I hesitate to call it breakfast because it's hardly ever actual breakfast food) after having my coffee and then I don't get hungry again until about 2:00 or 3:00, at which point I eat something small and/or snack-like to tide me over until dinner. So morning meal is something like leftovers, and then afternoon small meal is a can of soup or cheese sandwich. Nothing big or heavy.

In other running news, I was clicking through the runDisney website and found something pretty cool - half-marathon training plans! Now, I'd rather have an app like I do for C25K, so it does the thinking for me :) But a written plan will work. Jeff Galloway is the official runDisney Training Consultant and he has written up a training schedule for every runDisney event (looks like there are 7 or 8 a year), with weekly schedules and tips and stuff. Here's an example. Of course, even the "beginner" plan is written for someone who is capable of participating in 5Ks, so I need to hit that goal first, but I have plenty of time. It was very exciting. Plus I was able to take a lot of the tips he gives and apply it to my training now.

Anyway, that's this week's WWT update. Click over to Learning As We Go to link up!

7 comments:

144 PublishingJune 14, 2011 at 5:07 AM
I really need to get back into running shape. I just can't get past the amount of time it "wastes" that I could spend writing or spending time with my daughter or... napping.

Mostly, I just need to get off of my butt.
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Stephanie HartmanJune 14, 2011 at 6:00 AM
I give you props I use to run all the time but now I guess you could say I'm to lazy.. Lol I need to get out and start running again. I'm the same way with the eatting I eat left overs fr breakfast then I eat somthing small around 2 or 3 then dinner at 7 thats if my husband can wait that long lol..
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BrennaJune 14, 2011 at 6:24 AM
I am on W5D3 tomorrow of the C25K... it is the first long run with no break! I have to run 20 minutes straight tomorrow morning- I feel the mental block you were talking about!! Ugh!! But like you- I am going into it with the plan of completing it but not worrying about the pace or time- I just want to finish! Good luck!
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aeJune 14, 2011 at 6:30 AM
I am on week 2 of C25K and week 3 scares me to death!
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Nicole MarieJune 14, 2011 at 7:29 AM
I think I might try this C25K! Thanks for sharing it. :)
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Mary AnneJune 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM
You will be running that 5K before you know it! That's nice that they provide a training schedule...it definitely helps prepare you for the big race, but yeah it's crazy that a "short run" is a 3 miler. You'll be all over those soon enough. So excited for you! Keep up the good work! And that's basically incredible that you can eat breakfast and then not be hungry until 2:00 or 3:00! I am a major snack-a-holic. Even when I'm not pregnant :)
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stefanieJune 15, 2011 at 1:47 PM
I hope you will start enjoying running soon rather than seeing it as a chore. Of course, there will always be days when you just don't feel like running but that's normal. To me, running is one of the greatest exercises. I love sports that do not need any equipment - just my body and my mind. Good lock on your running journey!
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