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Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 6, 2006

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"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning."

– Lao-Tzu


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 7, 2006

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"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."

– Jack Lemmon


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 8, 2006

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"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."

– Abraham Lincoln


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 9, 2006

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"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."

– Will Rogers


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 11, 2006

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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

– Eleanor Roosevelt


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 12, 2006

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"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?"

– Dolores Huerta


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 14, 2006

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"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."

– St. Francis De Sales


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 15, 2006

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"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

– Theodore Seuss Giesel


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 16, 2006

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"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

– Peter Ustinov.


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 17, 2006

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"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

– John Updike


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 18, 2006

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"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."

– Frank Lloyd Wright


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 19, 2006

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"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."

– Shana Alexander


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 20, 2006

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"The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."

– Warren Buffett


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 21, 2006

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"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

– Winston Churchill


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 22, 2006

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"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."

– James Bryant Conant


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 23, 2006

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"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

– Anatole France


Heyltslori
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09-15-2001

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 2:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Heyltslori a private message Print Post    
Skootz, hope you don't mind me jumping in the thread with this...but I received it from a friend of mine and wanted to share. Talk about inspirational. Read the story and then watch the video.

Strongest Dad in the World

[From Sports Illustrated, By Rick Reilly]

I try to be a good father. Give my kids mulligans. Work nights to pay
for their text messaging. Take them to swimsuit shoots.

But compared with Dick Hoyt, I suck.

Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in
marathons. Eight times he's not only pushed him 26.2 miles in a
wheelchair but also towed him 2.4 miles in a dinghy while swimming and
pedaled him 112 miles in a seat on the handlebars--all in the same
day.

Dick's also pulled him cross-country skiing, taken him on his back
mountain climbing. Makes taking your son bowling look a little lame,
right?

And what has Rick done for his father? Not much--except save his life.

This love story began in Winchester, Mass., 43 years ago, when Rick
was strangled by the umbilical cord during birth, leaving him
brain-damaged and unable to control his limbs.

``He'll be a vegetable the rest of his life;'' Dick says doctors told
him and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old. ``Put him in an
institution.''

But the Hoyts weren't buying it. They noticed the way Rick's eyes
followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the
engineering department at Tufts University and asked if there was
anything to help the boy communicate. ``No way,'' Dick says he was
told. "There's nothing going on in his brain.''

"Tell him a joke,'' Dick countered. They did. Rick laughed. Turns out
a lot was going on in his brain. Rigged up with a computer that allowed
him to control the cursor by touching a switch with the side of his
head, Rick was finally able to communicate. First words? "Go Bruins!''
And after a high school classmate was paralyzed in an accident and the
school organized a charity run for him, Rick pecked out, ``Dad, I want
to do that.''

Yeah, right. How was Dick, a self-described ``porker'' who never ran
more than a mile at a time, going to push his son five miles? Still,
he tried. "Then it was me who was handicapped,'' Dick says. "I was sore for
two weeks.''

That day changed Rick's life. ``Dad,'' he typed, ``when we were
running, it felt like I wasn't disabled anymore!''

And that sentence changed Dick's life. He became obsessed with giving
Rick that feeling as often as he could. He got into such hard-belly
shape that he and Rick were ready to try the 1979 Boston Marathon.
"No way,'' Dick was told by a race official. The Hoyts weren't quite
a single runner, and they weren't quite a wheelchair competitor. For a
few years Dick and Rick just joined the massive field and ran anyway, then
they found a way to get into the race officially: In 1983 they ran
another marathon so fast they made the qualifying time for Boston the
following year.

Then somebody said, "Hey, Dick, why not a triathlon?''

How's a guy who never learned to swim and hadn't ridden a bike since
he was six going to haul his 110-pound kid through a triathlon? Still,
Dick tried.

Now they've done 212 triathlons, including four grueling 15-hour
Ironmans in Hawaii. It must be a buzzkill to be a 25-year-old stud
getting passed by an old guy towing a grown man in a dinghy, don't you
think?

Hey, Dick, why not see how you'd do on your own? ``No way,'' he says.
Dick does it purely for ``the awesome feeling'' he gets seeing Rick
with a cantaloupe smile as they run, swim and ride together.

This year, at ages 65 and 43, Dick and Rick finished their 24th Boston
Marathon, in 5,083rd place out of more than 20,000 starters. Their
best time'? Two hours, 40 minutes in 1992--only 35 minutes off the world
record, which, in case you don't keep track of these things, happens
to be held by a guy who was not pushing another man in a wheelchair at
the time.

``No question about it,'' Rick types. ``My dad is the Father of the Century.''

And Dick got something else out of all this too. Two years ago he had
a mild heart attack arteries was 95% clogged. ``If you hadn't been in
such great shape,'' one doctor told him, ``you probably would've died 15
years ago.''

So, in a way, Dick and Rick saved each other's life.

Rick, who has his own apartment (he gets home care) and works in
Boston, and Dick, retired from the military and living in Holland, Mass.,
always find ways to be together. They give speeches around the country and
compete in some backbreaking race every weekend, including this
Father's Day.

That night, Rick will buy his dad dinner, but the thing he really
wants to give him is a gift he can never buy. `The thing I'd most like,''
Rick types, ``is that my dad sit in the chair and I push him once.''


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryCTIigaloQ

Bandit
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07-29-2001

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 2:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Bandit a private message Print Post    
What a lovely story and so amazing! Thanks for sharing that.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 5:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
dang... now i'm crying.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 5:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
That was before I saw the video... now I'm sobbing. Wow.

...thanks lori, that was AMAZING.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 6:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
that is so amazing. Here in London, we too have an amazing father/son team. Please read about it at here at this site regarding Jesse's Journey. It is an amazing story too.

Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 24, 2006

Quote of the Day

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is."

– Erich Fromm


Skootz
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07-23-2003

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August 25, 2006

Quote of the Day

"The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning."

– Gail Godwin


Skootz
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07-23-2003

Saturday, August 26, 2006 - 3:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Skootz a private message Print Post    
August 26, 2006

Quote of the Day

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

– Victoria Holt