This is a new project to combine my favorite quotes and clothing. I love to keep, read, and re-read quotes to build, inspire, and help me focus on my goals.
I don’t know when Quotes started to matter to me. I do remember the first Quote, it is “Never let them make you crawl“, from John Dillinger. Yes, that John Dillinger.
I have to tell you something about myself … during my early teen years I was a pretty troubled young man, I don’t really know what brought it on, I just know that I was fighting a very severe case of depression. It started around 12 or 13 and my parents and one of their friends became very concerned. My beloved mother did everything she could; talking, praying, and generally checking in on me. Our friend decided to take a very military approach …. Needless to say the lesson I learned was that I needed to make up my mind how I wanted my life to turn out. With the combined influence of these 3 wonderful adults, I learned that I needed to get a picture of myself and work towards that image. John’s quote drove home the point that I didn’t need to bow down to others ideas or projections of what or who they thought I was. This quote became a light in a dark place and over time it became my beacon and then sun. Over time, I became more confident and stronger in my belief in who I am and wanted to be.
From this point I started to collect different quotes that spoke to my inner self. “Play … so that you may be serious.“, Anacharsis; “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it!”, Jonathan Winters; “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”, Albert Einstein … for example. I have collected about 100 quotes so far and continue to add more as I find they connect with me.
When my wife and I married, I had 3″x5″ cards sticky tacked to my bedroom wall. I took them down and moved furniture and more to make room for my wife. She took 7 of them and made 4″x6″ framed signs for me to hang in my office. I started to post them on IronWil.net. Then last December I decided that I needed to put them where I could see them again.
Hence QuoteMyT.
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