Inspirational And Positive Messages Go Here!

[[old] JimR]

If you don't do the hard work you don't get the fast time. (I made this one up myself I think)<br /><br />JimR

[[old] csabour]

"I would think about getting a rowing tattoo, but I wouldn't put a bumper sticker on a rolls royce if you know what I'm sayin."<br /><br />- alias; Kudos, from rowerworld.com

[[old] Ben Rea]

<b>The flute of the infinite is played without ceasing and its sound is love. --Kabir <br />More grows in the garden than the gardener knows he has sown. --Spanish Proverb<br /><br />All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. --Kabir<br /><br />The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that much raise your sails. --Rabindranath Tagore <br /><br />Men cannot see their reflection in running water, but only in still water. --Chuang Tzu <br /><br />Every answer asks a more beautiful question. --e e cummings<br /><br />Money often costs too much. --Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Strange how we make money to spend time. --Billboard Ad<br /><br />You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now. --Joan Baez<br /><br />Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. --Michel Eyquem de Montaigne<br /><br />Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven. --Yiddish Proverb<br /><br />What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think. --Kahlil Gibran <br /><br />At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. --Lao-tzu<br /><br />The elixir is hidden in the poison. --Rumi<br /><br />The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. --Proust<br /><br />They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. --Edgar Allan Poe<br /><br />Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. --Albert Camus <br /><br />No tree has branches so foolish as to fight amongst themselves. --Ojibwa Indian saying<br /><br />To control your cow, give it a bigger pasture. --Suzuki Roshi<br /><br />There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. --Mother Teresa<br /><br />While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. --Angela Schwindt<br /><br />We can do no great things; only small things with great love. --Mother Teresa <br /><br />Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. --Gibran<br /><br />Sometimes life's shadows are caused by our standing in our own sunshine. --Ralph Waldo Emerson<br /><br />Walk with those seeking Truth. Run from those who think they've found it. --Deepak Chopra<br /><br />There are treasures beyond compare in the ocean. If you seek safety stay ashore. --Sufi saying<br /><br />Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. --Goethe<br /><br />Relax, you have plenty of time. --Anonymous<br /><br />My whole purpose in life is to be of service to mankind. This I can do only by offering inspiration on the strength of my oneness. --Sri Chinmoy <br /><br />To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. --Eckhart Tolle<br /><br />Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. --Goethe <br /><br />If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. --Osho<br /><br />Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.<br /><br />There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. --Vaclav Havel<br /><br />I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love. --Gandhi's Prayer For Peace </b>

[[old] gorow9]

Row hard... listen harder... try hardest.<br /><br />My friend and I were racing in a double in Head of the Fish and I decided that I was going to make inspirational poggies. I cut the poggies out of polarfleece and sewed tehm together... they came out looking interresting. Anyways I took a permenant marker and wrote on them Life's shrot... row hard" but I mixed up what one went where. (there were two pairs) and I also tried to write "Kick Butt!" but when we tried to put them on the oars they said "Butt! Kick, Hard row!" and "Butt! Kick, Life's short!" They worked though because we won our race!<br /><br />We also wrote "row harder" on the back of my shirt and other little memos on the pogies like "look up" or "back spalsh" At Crash-B's I wrote "smile, you're at CRASH-B's on a sign and held it up while she erged... little "motivational" memos like that are great because they help distract your mind from the fact that you're ergign or in pain or can't breathe.<br /><br />Also tell yourself that you CAN do it and it helps a lot, your subcouscience believes what you tell it.<br /><br />"row til you die, then power 10!"

[[old] eyespliced]

I think the first two are pertinent to crew.<br /><br />Nihil sine labore<br />or<br />Nothing without work<br /><br />Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae<br />or<br />There is no one great ability without a mixture of madness<br /><br />Amor vincit omnia <br />or<br />love conquers all <br /><br />