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"Adapt and overcome." Motto/mantra from my time in the Marine Corps. I think, officially, it was "Improvise, Adapt and Overcome." but rarely was the first word included in my exposure. Related to that mantra's concept was: "Semper Gumby - Always Flexible." Both are useful in acknowledging that 1) Change is constant and 2) To thrive, you must be able to work with that change.
Semper Fi, devil dog
I _think_ it was Winston Churchill who said it.
But I like that it can apply to all kinds of situations. A stressful time a work? Hard times in personal relationships? Feeling depressed? The quote applies to any difficult situation I've ever found myself in.
"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur" "Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound"
Very humbling.
Not one, but a couple I utter everyday (to my kids): 1. "You get what you get and you don't get upset" 2. "Don't worry about that which you cannot control" The last is the deepest one which I struggle the most with: "When you’re 20, you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60, you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place!" - attributed to Chu…
I sort of cycle through and meditate on the below quotes a few times a week. "Humanity has no forgotten how infinitesimal, how impermanent and how ignorant it actually is. Ptolemy has been ridiculed for conceiving the earth to be the center of the universe, yet modern civilization is apparently founded upon the hypothesis that the planet Earth is the most permanent and important of all the heavenly spheres. Ignorant…