It's easy for me to focus on my shortcomings and get all dragged down, because I'm not perfect: not the perfect business owner, not the perfect wife, not the perfect therapist, not the perfect yoga teacher, not the perfect daughter and sister. When things are on top of me and there is little room to breathe, it's easy to just give up and to give in to my own inner critics and the voices outside that are critical of what I'm doing. In one of those moments, I was reminded how much courage it takes to live and that it is that courage that counts in the end. I find this speech by Roosevelt incredibly inspiring and hopeful: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
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To celebrate our 7th birthday in Huntingdon bring a friend for free in August 2018!
Come to class at Peterborough and Huntingdon in August and bring your friends for free! Visit as many times as you like and bring along anyone new to the Peterborough or Huntingdon centres, or who's not been to either centre in 2018. Book yourself in online and email us if you wanted to reserve a space for your friend as well. Email Jenny on [email protected]. 24 hour notice of cancellation still applies. |
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