The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows – Rocky Balboa

Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!
~ Rocky Balboa ~
Rocky Balboa - The World Ain't All Sunshine and Rainbows
It ain’t about how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. It’s how much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done – Rocky Balboa
Until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life.
The World Ain't All Sunshine and Rainbows - Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa – The World Ain’t All Sunshine and Rainbows

Buddha – Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.
Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books.
Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders.
Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations.
But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
~ Buddha ~
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. - Lord Buddha
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. – Lord Buddha

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And the Chinese Version:
不要相信只凭听说的任何事物。
不要相信世世代代流传下来的传统。
不要因为众人都这么说而相信它。
不要因为经典上的记载而相信它。
不要相信权威、导师或长辈的教导。
当你经过观察和分析后,
认为事物与原则一致,
并有助于个人和大家的善行与利益,
才接受实行。

O Me! O Life!

O Me! O Life!O ME! O life!… of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish;
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light—of the objects mean—of the struggle ever renew’d;
Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;            
Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined;
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
 
Answer:
That you are here—that life exists, and identity;           
That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.

~ Walt Whitman ~

The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference - Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference – Robert Frost

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,The Road Not Taken 2
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.The Road Not Taken 3
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost

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