At 10 minutes to seven on a dark, cool evening in Mexico City in 1968, John Stephen Akwari of Tanzania painfully hobbled into the Olympic Stadium-the last man to finish the marathon. The winner had already been crowned, and the victory ceremony was long finished. So the stadium was almost empty and Akwari - alone, his leg bloody and bandaged - struggled to circle the track to the finish line. When asked why he had continued the grueling struggle, the young man from Tanzania answered softly: My country did not send me 9,000 miles to start the race. They sent me 9,000 miles to finish the race.
True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort. - Walter Inglis Anderson
True hope responds to the real world, to real life; it is an active effort.
- Walter Inglis Anderson
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. - Walter Inglis Anderson
True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. - Walter Inglis Anderson
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it. - Walter Inglis Anderson
Courage is always and only one thing: It is acting with fear, not without it.
How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let i… - Walter Inglis Anderson
How many human beings anywhere, hold on to a relationship merely because it exists? This fear of loneliness, abandonment, or failure can, if we let i…
It is your choices that make you uniquely you. - Walter Inglis Anderson
It is your choices that make you uniquely you.
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive. - Walter Inglis Anderson
Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.
The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention. - Walter Inglis Anderson
The most sincere compliment we can pay is attention.
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over. - Walter Inglis Anderson
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
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