Mahler’s Monday Morning Motivator # 53 – Winter doldrums
Good Morning, guys.
I started John Berardi’s Greatest Workout Ever last week. I am really enjoying it. I have discovered, however, that Bulgarian Split Squats and Suitcase Dead lifts are the superset from hell.
On Friday my area had a surprise snowstorm and today we had sleet and an ice storm. It started me thinking over the weekend about this time of year and how most guys get cabin fever. The urge to put winter behind and get ready for spring is stronger than ever. It seems like winter will never end. So I researched what some famous names in literature had to say about the situation. Their words offer a little hope that soon things will change. Before you know it, we will all be out and about and nature will have renewed our outlook on life.
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
—Anne Bradstreet
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
—Albert Camus
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
—Anton Chekhov
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
—Victor Hugo
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
—Soren Kierkegaard
No one thinks of winter when the grass is green.
—Rudyard Kipling
Winter is not a season; it's an occupation.
—Sinclair Lewis
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get about the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter.
—Bat Masterson
Grace groweth best in winter.
—Samuel Rutherford
Never cut a tree down in the winter. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
—Robert Schuller
O, Wind,
If winter comes,
can Spring be far behind?
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
—Henry David Thoreau
Four dry logs have in them all the circumstances necessary to a conversation for 4 or 5 hours. Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
— Petrol Aretino
When one has faith that the spring thaw will arrive, the winter winds seem to lose some of their punch.
—Robert L. Veninga
Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."
—Ben Williams
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them.
—Woodrow Wilson
In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.
—Edna O'Brien
Have a great week, guys, and hang in there. It won’t be long now.
In Fitness & Friendship,
Mahler
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In Fitness & Friendship,
MAHLER
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There is no light at the end of the tunnel. You carry the light with you.
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