I found the one about bees at this website; it has a lot of Deep Thoughts I hadn’t seen before (I had a couple of those little books years ago – they’re now somewhere in the Pacific, I’d guess – but many of the Thoughts on this page didn’t appear in them). Maybe they’ll give you the pep you need for whatever it is you need it for. Good luck!
(Oh, is this about the move mentioned in the post where you offered to buy everyone lunch? You might try this Handey advice to keep your effort minimal:
To me, it’s a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, “Hey, can you give me a hand?” you can say, “Sorry, got these sacks.”
I’d come help, but I hate sweet tea. The south is a weird, weird place.)
Why bother, Dale? The truth is that if you don’t do this, someone else will.
They’ll either deliver the stuff to you or they’ll call Goodwill. Frankly, the latter is a better option, because then you won’t have to find a place to store it.
Think about it. If you were sick, what would happen? People would take care of it for you.
Your problem is you’re too responsible. You worry about what people will think. Whatever for??? Nobody is going to think badly of you–they’ll just make excuses.
Besides, all you’re really going to do today is deprive somebody of some income. Isn’t it better to give to the poor? Or at least give some deserving movers a day’s work?
Get off your heinie, Dale, and go find something more entertaining to do! You deserve it!
Trust me. Everything will work out in the end. You don’t need to lift a finger.
“Let me say it once more, daddo, average is just not good enough.
One must seek to do his best at everything with which he is tempted.
It is not enough to merely exist. It’s not good enough to say you’re a
good father or a good churchgoer. And furthermore, it’s not good enough
to say you’re a good husband. That’s all very well, but one must do
something even more. Become a good philanderer. But be moderate.
Remember, it’s one thing to be a good modérateur but quite another to
be a moderate do-gooder”
Buck up, old chap. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Chin up, and all that. Musn’t let the womenfolk see you downhearted. You are a stout fellow, and I have every confidence in you. You’ve faced worse than this before and come up trumps. Nil Desperandum. Have a whisky. Feel better? How are your bowels? Loose enough? Tight enough? Stiff upper lip? That’s more like it. Now get out there and show them how an Englishman can behave.
What greater pep-talk could there be than that provided for us by that great philosopher, Gerry of the Pacemakers:
When you walk through the storm
Hold your head up high
And don’t be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
There’s a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of the lark
Walk on, through the wind
Walk on, through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone
There’s a door out back there - it’s just a door, you can go out there any time. But you got this chance - this other door here is for winners. This door makes you shine.
All your friends and family, all your heros and wise guys just went and bought a ticket to see you shine. You are here because you CAN shine! And this door here will make you shine!
When you go through this door you will shine - when the weight comes down you WILL remember you came through this door and you will shine from your gonads to your crown! And you - will - shine. You will feel the pain and shine, you will get covered in s**t and you will shine, you will screw-up and it will be the best thing you ever did - you will shine.
Send yourself the power now - think of it - when the weight comes down, you went through the door. Imagine when the thing comes down - the door lit a fire under your A*s - you will remember the door, you will feel the fire.
When you go through this door you will shine - when the weight comes down you will remember this door. You will feel the pain and shine, you will get covered in s**t and you will shine, you will screw-up and you will shine.
ON 10! You will go through here and shine. Going through here makes you shine! On 10 you shine start to end.
Whatever obstacles you will face, take heart. Chances are that they are only figments of your imagineation or at the very least, much smaller than they may appear.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time.” --Frodo Baggins
“So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” --Gandalf
“Beren now, he never thought he was going to get that Silmaril from the Iron Crown in Thangorodrim, and yet he did, and that was a worse place and a blacker danger than ours. But that’s a long tale, of course, and goes on past the happiness and into grief and beyond it - and the Silmaril went on and came to Eärendil. And why, sir, I never thought of that before! We’ve got - you’ve got some of the light of it in that star-glass that the Lady gave you! Why, to think of it, we’re in the same tale still! It’s going on. Don’t the great tales never end?” --Sam Gamgee
A man walks down the street
He says why am I short of attention
Got a short little span of attention
And whoa my nights are so long
Where’s my wife and family
What if I die here
Who’ll be my role-model
Now that my role-model is
Gone Gone
He ducked back down the alley
With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl
All alone alone
There were incidents and accidents
There were hints and allegations
Well, gee, no … I guess that doesn’t really help much, does it?
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for. - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Depending on how you look at it, that may or may not be inspirational.
But this is what Tony Blair says to his cabinet ministers just before they have to resign…
