John Dillinger<\/a>.\u00a0 Yes, that John Dillinger.<\/p>\nI 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.\u00a0 It started around 12 or 13 and my parents and one of their friends became very<\/em> concerned.\u00a0 My beloved mother did everything she could; talking, praying, and generally checking in on me.\u00a0 Our friend decided to take a very military approach ….\u00a0 Needless to say the lesson I learned was that I needed to make up my mind how I wanted my life to turn out.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 This quote became a light in a dark place and over time it became my beacon and then sun.\u00a0 Over time, I became more confident and stronger in my belief in who I am and wanted to be.<\/p>\nFrom this point I started to collect different quotes that spoke to my inner self. “Play … so that you may be serious.<\/span>“, Anacharsis; \u201cIf your ship doesn\u2019t come in, swim out to it!<\/span>\u201d, Jonathan Winters; \u201cIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.<\/span>\u201d, Albert Einstein … for example.\u00a0 I have collected about 100 quotes so far and continue to add more as I find they connect with me.<\/p>\nWhen my wife and I married, I had 3″x5″ cards sticky tacked to my bedroom wall.\u00a0 I took them down and moved furniture and more to make room for my wife.\u00a0 She took 7 of them and made 4″x6″ framed signs for me to hang in my office.\u00a0 I started to post them on IronWil.net.\u00a0 Then last December I decided that I needed to put them where I could see them again.<\/p>\n
Hence QuoteMyT.<\/p>\n
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This is a new project to combine my favorite quotes and clothing.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I do remember the first Quote, it is “Never let them make you crawl“, from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[26,807,808],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quote","tag-iron-wil","tag-note","tag-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}