“Who is in control? Are you taking the responsibility for keeping yourself up and going or are you letting the circumstances of daily living assume the responsibility for you? Are you being motivated by outside influences or are you yourself the single most motivating factor in your own life?”
Shad Helmstetter (What To Say When You Talk To Yourself)
“The haughty or arrogant person is really suffering from a tragic lack of healthy self-love. It is well recognized that the person who displays a superior attitude toward others is in fact using his braggadocio to cover up a deep-rooted inferiority complex. Egotism is a breezy symptom of a trembling insecurity. Exaggeration is also born of insecurity.”
Robert H. Schuller (Self-Love)
“You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.”
Steven D. Woodhull
“I strongly suggest that self-love is the ultimate will of man – that what you really want more than anything else in the world is the awareness that you are a worthy person. It is the deepest of all the currents which drive man onward, forward and upward. All other drives – pleasure, power, love, meaning, creativity – are symptoms, expressions or attempts to fulfill that primal need for personal dignity.”
Robert H. Schuller (Self-Love)
“So much to do, so little done, such things to be.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“The road to success starts when you are inspired to make the effort. Inspiration starts when you are motivated to dissatisfaction with things as they are. Therefore, inspirational dissatisfaction is the strongest single force.”
W. Clement Stone (The Success System That Never Fails)
In 2007 the movie ‘Grindhouse’ was released to cinemas. This was a tribute to movie houses (called grindhouses), which used to show mainly ‘B’ movies. The 2007 film was in fact a double bill of horror movies and put in a mediocre box office performance.
It was hardly a film full of inspiration messages, nonetheless, as these things happen, it has become a cult movie.
In the first of the two movies, ’Planet Terror,’ the heroine is one Cherry Darling, played by Rose McGowan. Darling and her sidekick have to protect the world from an invasion of zombies: her outstanding feature is an assault rifle attached as a prosthetic limb.
The action moves to the 2007 Comic Con exhibition. This exhibition is held annually at the San Diego Convention Centre and attracts large crowds of enthusiasts to its film, TV, science fiction, fantasy and comic book themed stands.
One stand was devoted to the Grindhouse movies and it was decided to have Cherry Darling there to meet the fans. Rose McGowan was not available so a substitute had to be found. In stepped Lacey Henderson who was an instant hit with the crowds.
Miss Henderson, now 21 years old, is a talented cheerleader and gymnast. She has played a number of sports including volleyball, rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, soccer and pole vaulting: an exhausting array for anyone. A couple of years ago she also worked as a dance instructor and counsellor of a youth camp.
So what is the big deal? Remember the outstanding feature of Cherry Darling.
At the age of nine, Lacey began to suffer from lumps on the back of her knee. Examinations showed synovial sarcoma and a cancerous spot on her lungs. Eventually, after sessions of chemotherapy (which, as she had kidney and liver damage too, nearly killed her), it was decided there was no option but to amputate her right leg.
Lacey’s parents were a saving grace in those early years. They refused to treat her different in any way and this helped Lacey get the determination to make the most of her life.
She is presently studying Spanish, French and International Health at Denver university and has been asked to train for the American Paralympic ski team. She has a job as a waitress and has undertaken some fashion modelling.
Lacey has one clear ambition: to pass on words of motivation to people with similar disabilities and help them believe in themselves: “I like the idea of letting people know you don’t have to let a disability limit what you can do.” But, as she has told her local newspaper, “I’m not disabled. I’ve just got one leg.” She refers to herself as ‘differently abled.’
Expect to see more great things and hear words of motivation from Lacey Henderson.
“If we all drove our cars like many of us treat our relationships we would never leave home until the weather was perfect, all the lights were green and the complete route was clear. Find a good companion, jump in, laugh and enjoy the journey: obstacles, hurdles, jams and all. People who are too serious crash.”
Xavier de Monistrol
“I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.”
William J. Lock
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“I’ve come to realize there’s only one quality we all need: kindness. Setting goals and closing deals is all well and good, but performing an act of kindness raises our own levels of happiness – no magic required.”
Derren Brown (Magician and Hypnotist – quoted in Readers Digest magazine)
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