Lorenzo Victory - Anything Is Possible: Thought-Provoking Quotes to Inspire Your Mind

Anything
Is
Possible

Thought-Provoking Quotes
to Inspire Your Mind

Lorenzo Victory

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE

THOUGHT-PROVOKING QUOTES TO INSPIRE YOUR MIND

Copyright 2012, 2013 Lorenzo Victory.

Author Credits: Lawrence Nasser

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I dedicate this book to my family and friends.

My whole life has been supported by a strong network of friends and family who have always been there for me during sickness and in health.

I also dedicate this book to those who struggle with any illness and to those who encounter any obstacles in their lives.

Lastly, I dedicate this book to those who will be inspired by it and who realize that anything is possible.

Contents

I would like to thank my family for the love and support they have given me throughout my life. I would also like to thank my close friends for always being there for me. My mother, father, and sister have been wonderful my whole life and have always supported meno matter what was occurring. I have been inspired by my mother and father. I have also been inspired by my sister and brother-in-law and, lastly, by my niece and nephew.

This book is based on my personal experiences in life. I have found that my messages of being confident and staying positive have helped others, and Im confident they will help you too. I wrote this book to share my knowledge and experiences of setbacks and accomplishments. I hope it inspires you. This book is designed to help anyone who feels overwhelmed or uninspired, or who lacks confidence. I hope it will also lift your spirits and provide you with feel-good quotes and inspiring thoughts.

The following are inspirational, thought-provoking, positive messages and quotes that I have written. I write what I feel at the moment. I have endured many setbacks and obstacles throughout my life. I have overcome ailments and many hardships to get where I am. I have had a brain tumor, scoliosis, neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF 1), a heart attack, hydrocephalus, and more. I just retired as an officer at a major bank. I started as a teller and ended up as a manager. I worked as a banker for twenty-seven years. During my career, banking changed many times and we adapted to the changes. I lived with the motto No excuses! We all worked in a no excuse environment. We did our jobs. We all had our respective roles, and we all had accountability. We held ourselves liable for our conduct and our performance. When a task or assignment was not done, we learned not to blame others for our shortfalls. We took responsibility and answered to our managers. This is part of what helped shape me into the positive, confident person I have become.

I believe that anything is possible and that nothing can stand in the way of happiness and success. I want to share my messages and thoughts with the world. In this book I present my lifeas seen through my eyes. I share my experiences and how I dealt with the good and the bad. I continue to find the strength to overcome daily issues that come with life. I feel very fortunate that I am able to write this book in order to show everyone thatno matter what your pain, issue, ailment, physical condition, or emotion isyou can decide the direction of your future. Poor health can take a toll on you. Sometimes its unexpected, and sometimes it comes with age. Life can also throw curve balls at you. No matter what the issue is, the answer is attitude .

I began posting quotes on a social media site in late 2011. I received positive feedback nearly every time I posted a quote. All of the quotes are my original quotes. I felt inspired by the feedback I received when I wrote them. After careful consideration, I decided that others might benefit from reading my quotes and reading about my life and how I came to be the positive, confident, and caring person I am today.

My story starts with my life as a young child and the medical issues I faced. It also shows how I dealt with life and how I overcame those issues. I then list quotes based on different thoughts. I have divided the book into several topics and categories of my quotes and thoughts. My storys theme follows the quotes, and while the story starts off addressing that particular category, the story about my life also picks up where I left off when I write about the other topics. I have placed the quotes under the appropriate headings of five different categories. Although the story may tend to skip around a little, it all ties back into a continuing story that follows my theme. I hope my thoughts and quotesalong with my life experiencesinspire all who read them.

This category and the quotes that follow are about caring. Below I share the beginning of my story. It sends a caring message followed by my quotes and thoughts that have a caring theme.

I started out caring about people early in my life. I was always able to make friends very easily and was never a selfish child. I always shared with friends and didnt mind if they didnt share back. My life started in Canada in April 1965. My parents migrated to Montreal, Canada, from Nazareth, Israel in 1963. My sister was born three years before me and was also born overseas. From the beginning, my sister and I played together daily and had a very close relationship. We often did many activities together. My father worked several jobs while my mother stayed home and took care of my sister and me. My mother would cook, clean, and take care of us while we played; we had fun hanging out with each other and with our friends. We moved to the United States in 1971 when I was six years old. My parents were sponsored by my uncle, who had moved from Nazareth first to Syracuse, New York.

Once I started going to school in New York, I met many children my age and made a lot of friends. We played outdoors a lot and always had things to keep us occupied: the playground near our apartment, a swimming pool, and a basketball court. Many of the children living in or near our apartment frequented the playground daily. We had a great time every day, and everyone mostly got along. At the time, I was unaware that there were some mean kids out there, and I didnt know anything about bullying, fighting, name-calling, or other things that I might encounter. I didnt realize that life wasnt always fun and games. Sometimes people can make life difficultalthough not necessarily on purpose. I only knew happiness and that, for the most part, being a kid was fun. For the first couple of years, I thought this was the way life was for a kid in Syracuse. We went to school, had recess, went home, played, did homework, ate dinner, played more, slept, and repeated the cycle daily. The summer was even more enjoyable because we had longer daysand that meant more time to play. We didnt have any homework or many responsibilities in the summer.