Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Sunday edition of Morning Run.
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robot and I'm TJ. Holmes. We tried it
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3: You all seem to like us, who We're going to
Speaker 3: keep doing it. We collect our quotes of the day
Speaker 3: if anybody listen to Morning Run. Of course robes. We
Speaker 3: love putting them at the end. It's one of our
Speaker 3: favorite parts of Morning Run. But here's where we kind
Speaker 3: of collect them and go through and tell more of
Speaker 3: a deeper story of what's behind them.
Speaker 1: That's right. We thought it would be fun to reflect
Speaker 1: on all of the inspiration from the week before in
Speaker 1: the past, so that in the week ahead we can
Speaker 1: actually take that new perspective with us. So let's start
Speaker 1: with Monday, and our quote of the day was love
Speaker 1: the life you live, Live the life you love, and
Speaker 1: it was attributed to Bob Marley, which we were a
Speaker 1: little like, huh, I did not know that a lyric
Speaker 1: and his songs. So I actually tried to do a
Speaker 1: little bit of a deep dive on this, and some
Speaker 1: people say, hey, he wasn't the originator, but I haven't.
Speaker 1: I wasn't able to find out who actually came up
Speaker 1: with the phrase, but he certainly said it.
Speaker 3: Well, did you tell is it? It is a song
Speaker 3: lyric or? He this is a quote from an interview.
Speaker 1: I believe it's it's it's in one of his songs.
Speaker 1: But then they say it was kind of a mash
Speaker 1: from another thing he said, So it was a little
Speaker 1: there was a it was a gray area, but largely
Speaker 1: if you if you go and google this, love the
Speaker 1: life you live, live the life you love, Bob Marley's
Speaker 1: name will come up. I just wanted to make it
Speaker 1: clear that I can one hundred percent guarantee that he
Speaker 1: said it.
Speaker 3: But I love from days I know.
Speaker 1: I just put this is transparency. So I just want
Speaker 1: to say I can't confirm this information about to give you,
Speaker 1: but the quote is still an amazing quote. So it
Speaker 1: obviously is about making sure you remember to love the
Speaker 1: life you live, to be grateful for it, and to
Speaker 1: be excited about it because this is an amazing thing
Speaker 1: we get to do, and then to live the life
Speaker 1: you love. So you choose how you live by making
Speaker 1: sure that you are doing the things you love.
Speaker 3: What is this you have in here in the note?
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, yeah you all, I'm reading Robot the note
Speaker 3: live here essentially because I'm saying it for the first time,
Speaker 3: you have this second thing in here. Why there's another
Speaker 3: quote that kind of is in line or it's been
Speaker 3: sourced from.
Speaker 1: Well, So when I started looking at Bob Marley quotes
Speaker 1: because I was trying to figure out if he in
Speaker 1: fact said this, and I found another quote that he
Speaker 1: absolutely said okay, and I loved it. The truth is
Speaker 1: everyone is going to hurt you. You just have to
Speaker 1: find the ones worth suffering for.
Speaker 2: Wait, why did you include those? One used that as you.
Speaker 1: Know, it's a bonus. It's a quote bonus, and it
Speaker 1: was basically just another Bob Marley quote. He actually if
Speaker 1: you look to his lyrics, they're very simple, but so
Speaker 1: inspirational and fun a lot of times as well. I
Speaker 1: love the music. Anyway, I just thought there was a
Speaker 1: little bonus quote.
Speaker 2: We'll start doing that.
Speaker 3: Then on Sundays, we'll give you all the quotes of
Speaker 3: the day from the previous week and then a bonus
Speaker 3: quote that's okay, fun. You just started a new thing here.
Speaker 3: So that was on Monday. On Tuesday, you dug this
Speaker 3: one up as well. Tuesday's quote was life is a
Speaker 3: series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them. That
Speaker 3: only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality, Let things flow
Speaker 3: naturally forward and whatever way they like. End quote This
Speaker 3: was This.
Speaker 1: Is from Laosu, a Chinese philosopher from five hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy one b c.
Speaker 2: It still all works today. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: It blew my mind because you and I have really
Speaker 1: leaned in on some of the quotes we know from
Speaker 1: Michael Singer, from Eckhart Toole. But this is exactly what
Speaker 1: they preach. And to think that a Chinese philosopher five
Speaker 1: hundred plus years before Christ was born said the exact
Speaker 1: same thing, right.
Speaker 2: Maybe they stole it from him?
Speaker 1: Well, they probably that was a foundation for this way
Speaker 1: of thinking. And the cool thing is, I'm imagining, no
Speaker 1: matter what changes we've had in this world and all
Speaker 1: the developments and all the things we've learned and all
Speaker 1: the things we can do, this still is appropriate and important.
Speaker 1: And they knew it all the way back then. There
Speaker 1: were different problems and different issues, and yet this remains
Speaker 1: the same.
Speaker 3: Should we have figured it out by now? Shouldn't we
Speaker 3: all be living this way? They've been preaching this since
Speaker 3: before Christ was born. It feels like we should have
Speaker 3: adapted right now.
Speaker 1: So somehow we all want to control things. We all
Speaker 1: want to change things. We want things to be the
Speaker 1: way we want them, and that is what causes suffering.
Speaker 1: You have surrender on your arm, tattooed on your arm.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about getting a tattoo about this. I
Speaker 1: haven't done it yet, but that phrase come what may
Speaker 1: it's all in the same line of thinking that you
Speaker 1: just when you resist what is, when you resist reality,
Speaker 1: you will suffer it or be.
Speaker 2: Sorrow what what? Broadway shows that aio?
Speaker 1: Oh, that's yes, that's from Moula Rouge and it's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite songs, What May come what?
Speaker 2: They change the music in that, but that one stays
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 1: Yes, they changed, they changed it up to make it
Speaker 1: more popularized. They have a bunch of current music that
Speaker 1: they put and weave through the storyline. I have to
Speaker 1: take you say, yes, okay, it's always It was in
Speaker 1: the movie Mula Rouge. It's in the Broadway play now
Speaker 1: and my goodness, no one sings it quite like eron debate.
Speaker 1: I want to see it. We have to. We have
Speaker 1: to make that a date night.
Speaker 3: Yes, that was Tuesday's quote. Life is a series of
Speaker 3: natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them. That only creates sorrow.
Speaker 3: Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever.
Speaker 2: Way they like.
Speaker 3: And that takes us now to our quote that we
Speaker 3: had on Wednesday, which is another simple one. It's a
Speaker 3: doozy but soon as you hear it, it sounds so simple,
Speaker 3: but it makes you stop and think quite a bit.
Speaker 1: Yes, this is from the files of TJ. Holmes. It
Speaker 1: takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your
Speaker 1: own ignorance.
Speaker 3: I mean, what are the ways? I guess the most
Speaker 3: popular way is you don't know what you don't know.
Speaker 1: People like to say that, but I say that to
Speaker 1: my daughters all the time.
Speaker 3: Nobody likes to embrace that. The idea you don't know
Speaker 3: what you don't know. That's a very powerful thing. It
Speaker 3: makes you curious, it makes you more interested, it makes
Speaker 3: you more engaged, and it makes you more capable of
Speaker 3: actually learning something. You might be the smartest person in
Speaker 3: the room because you were the one who was willing
Speaker 3: to admit you didn't know everything, so you absorbed from
Speaker 3: everybody else.
Speaker 2: I just this is one. What's the way you put it?
Speaker 1: Oftentimes the wisest man in the world is the man
Speaker 1: who knows he knows nothing. That's often attributed to Socrates,
Speaker 1: so again, an ancient philosopher, someone and something he said
Speaker 1: that we still need to think about and put into
Speaker 1: practice in our own lives all these years later. I
Speaker 1: think it's remarkable. I will also say this, when you
Speaker 1: acknowledge that you don't know what you don't know, that
Speaker 1: there's still so much to learn, it's actually freeing. It's
Speaker 1: I might it might seem powerful and important to be
Speaker 1: a know it all, and you might get a little
Speaker 1: bit of an ego boost if you're that person. But
Speaker 1: my god, it's a lot of work and people don't
Speaker 1: like it. I used to always say this to my
Speaker 1: kids as well. Nobody loves and know it all, or
Speaker 1: nobody likes to know it all, and so it's actually
Speaker 1: very freeing. It's very freeing to say, huh, who knew?
Speaker 1: Or I don't know, and even if you think they're wrong,
Speaker 1: let them say it and just listen. Have the perspective.
Speaker 1: I love it. It takes considerable knowledge just to realize
Speaker 1: the extent of your own ignorance. Awesome.
Speaker 3: That takes us up to Thursday. Thursday again was in
Speaker 3: the files.
Speaker 2: That I have.
Speaker 3: How many would you say I had stacked up? Again,
Speaker 3: folks that don't know I, every single week at good morning,
Speaker 3: I put up a new quote on Monday on my
Speaker 3: door every single week, and we had folks come by
Speaker 3: and they were inspired. They stopped this spark conversations. People
Speaker 3: would take pictures of them and post them. It was
Speaker 3: a fun thing that I got to do. But when
Speaker 3: we left, I make sure I took all of those
Speaker 3: with me. So we have a stack of Manila folder
Speaker 3: full of quotes.
Speaker 1: It's awesome that you did that. And so I would
Speaker 1: say how long had you been doing it? For almost
Speaker 1: two years? Because I would say there's okay, So I
Speaker 1: would say there's a little There's probably over one hundred
Speaker 1: of these quotes, so that would make sense every week
Speaker 1: for about two years class, that's about how many we have.
Speaker 3: I loved it was a big part of my responsibility
Speaker 3: and John took it very seriously and that took time
Speaker 3: every morning to print those out.
Speaker 2: It had different fonts and color.
Speaker 1: You remember look forward to it.
Speaker 2: But this was one of them.
Speaker 3: It was classy is when you have a lot to say,
Speaker 3: but you choose to stay silent in front of fools. Now,
Speaker 3: I wasn't sure where I got that. I think during
Speaker 3: the week I said, why do I think it was
Speaker 3: a George Clooney croke cluote?
Speaker 1: You did say that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think it was.
Speaker 3: I think it was simply that quote was put up,
Speaker 3: his picture was attached to it or something, and that's
Speaker 3: burned in my mind.
Speaker 1: But that's funny.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure where it came from, but it's difficult
Speaker 3: to do. I told my daughter this recently. I think
Speaker 3: I told you this recently when you were having an
Speaker 3: argument with somebody, like you can't argue with the food
Speaker 3: because from a distance, nobody knows who's who. That's something
Speaker 3: your mama taught you. But it takes discipline to shut
Speaker 3: up when you listen into somebody that you know is wrong.
Speaker 1: It's I find it, and you know, it's very hard
Speaker 1: for me to do that, and I have tried to
Speaker 1: put that into practice because I have watched you do this.
Speaker 1: You are very good at this. When someone is you
Speaker 1: what you always say something that you're like the foundation
Speaker 1: of what you're saying is not correct. So it's like
Speaker 1: if someone starts from a place of untruth or falsity.
Speaker 3: Everything else is out the window, so theres no reason
Speaker 3: to listen past that.
Speaker 1: And you've said that, you're like, I can shut this
Speaker 1: down now, and I'm not even gonna respond because it's
Speaker 1: not worth it because that is not based in truth. Yep.
Speaker 1: And so if someone is saying something that's patently false
Speaker 1: or it's pointless to argue with them, and it's hard
Speaker 1: because it's also very.
Speaker 2: I get ego is.
Speaker 1: About to come into Yeah, exactly, that's what it is. Tempting,
Speaker 1: that's the word I was looking for. Tempting. It is
Speaker 1: tempting to try and say, uh ah, it's this way,
Speaker 1: but that never goes anywhere. You're never going to convince anybody.
Speaker 1: And I think trying to convince somebody they're wrong, or
Speaker 1: trying to show them that they're wrong, it usually ends
Speaker 1: up blowing up in your face. So I do love this.
Speaker 1: Classy is when you have a lot to say, but
Speaker 1: you choose to remain silent in front of fools. We
Speaker 1: don't know if George Clooney said that. We think he didn't.
Speaker 1: You know what, I feel like you could have even
Speaker 1: said this, like if you told me you came up
Speaker 1: with this quote.
Speaker 2: I would believe that, and let's go with that. This
Speaker 2: is attribute it to TJ. Holmes.
Speaker 1: All right, that's what we'll go.
Speaker 3: All right, Oh Friday, we had this when Robes pulled
Speaker 3: out a quote from an athlete, from a baseball player.
Speaker 3: Of all sports that you watch, the one I would
Speaker 3: say you were leased into.
Speaker 2: Would be baseball.
Speaker 1: Yes. I find baseball to be kind of boring. You know,
Speaker 1: it's just it drags on. I mean, the fact that
Speaker 1: you even have to have a seventh inning stretch tells
Speaker 1: you all you need to know about the pace of
Speaker 1: the game. That's all.
Speaker 2: Okay, So with.
Speaker 3: That as the backdrop, I was very surprised when she
Speaker 3: plucked out from Earl Wilson.
Speaker 2: I don't know if everybody would know that name. I
Speaker 2: don't know his backstory, but a baseball player you came
Speaker 2: up with us.
Speaker 1: Yes, he said this during a commencement speech. Because you
Speaker 1: were even questioning whether or not he was the original
Speaker 1: author of this, But he did say this in a
Speaker 1: commencement speech. If you think nobody cares if you're alive,
Speaker 1: try missing a couple of payments a humor filled way
Speaker 1: to let you know that there's always someone who wants
Speaker 1: to know where you are and what you're doing and
Speaker 1: whether or not you're going to pay them back.
Speaker 2: Somebody always cares.
Speaker 3: You can take it as that, Yes, we're just talking
Speaker 3: about maybe a tax collector or a bill collector, but
Speaker 3: there's somebody somewhere. We have moments or we think nobody cares,
Speaker 3: we think we're alone.
Speaker 2: And you just want to know. We've talked about this before.
Speaker 3: I've had had this conversation last week with someone who said, Yeah,
Speaker 3: when I was going through hell, I didn't know to
Speaker 3: reach out to you, TJ. I didn't know what to say.
Speaker 3: I want to kind of leave you alone, give you
Speaker 3: some space. But I told her, I said, I got
Speaker 3: messages from people that I never responded to. But I'm
Speaker 3: telling you now how much it meant to know that
Speaker 3: person was thinking about me and cared. It's still mattered.
Speaker 3: So I would encourage anybody always to let somebody know
Speaker 3: when they're on your mind, because people can use it.
Speaker 1: It's a good practice to put into your habits, and
Speaker 1: it can become a habit. Because I have tried to
Speaker 1: start doing that. I'll think, Oh, I wonder how so
Speaker 1: and so is doing or I didn't check on this person.
Speaker 1: And instead of saying I'll do it when I get home,
Speaker 1: or i'll do it later tonight, you're not going to
Speaker 1: you were going to forget. Life gets busy, and so
Speaker 1: it really is a practice to say, the moment that
Speaker 1: comes into my head, I'm going to take thirty seconds,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a minute, and I'm just gonna say hey.
Speaker 1: And this is one of my favorite things to do,
Speaker 1: especially if someone's going through hell. And we all have
Speaker 1: had our moments when someone says do not respond or
Speaker 1: you do not need to respond, but I just want
Speaker 1: to let you know I'm thinking of you and someone
Speaker 1: sending a hug your way, and yes, of course you
Speaker 1: can respond, but that's actually awesome because when people are
Speaker 1: trying to say something to you to get something back,
Speaker 1: sometimes that can actually be heavier. So I always appreciate that. Also,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite things to do is when you
Speaker 1: give someone a gift, you say and you are not
Speaker 1: allowed to write me a thank you note because it's
Speaker 1: just one of those things where I have said that.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I appreciate that thank you.
Speaker 1: See it's overwhelming, you know. Sometimes the people are sending
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff, so I just I think that's
Speaker 1: one of those ways to love people and to show
Speaker 1: people you care about them. And it's not transactional, it
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be reciprocal. It's just you reaching out
Speaker 1: and sharing love with someone. So I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 3: There's a collection of people in this country who have
Speaker 3: gotten that message from me over the past couple of years.
Speaker 3: Didn't want anything, you just cross my mind. So I
Speaker 3: thought i'd say, hello, hope that exact thing and that
Speaker 3: line I include. I said, I've learned anything over the
Speaker 3: past couple of years is when somebody is on my mind,
Speaker 3: don't hesitate to reach out.
Speaker 2: A lot of people have gotten that exactly.
Speaker 1: Ess for me because it's crazy. But when you're going
Speaker 1: through it and you just get that one line, your
Speaker 1: heart warms, your heart opens up, and it changes your day.
Speaker 1: So I think that's pretty cool. And yeah, someone always cares, even.
Speaker 3: If they are trying to get your money. So folks,
Speaker 3: if you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing
Speaker 3: a couple of payments. Again contributed or attributed to Earl Wilson,
Speaker 3: a baseball player. So, like we say on Sundays, people
Speaker 3: always looking for a reset, an inspiration of some kind.
Speaker 3: You've gotten your rest in I guess maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit on Saturday, maybe party a little bit, but you
Speaker 3: get around to Sunday, it's time to start thinking about
Speaker 3: the week and to be recharged and re energize. Even
Speaker 3: if it's not religious, everybody's looking for a little something
Speaker 3: on Sunday to reset. So we hope these.
Speaker 2: Work for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe you'll even go on a Sunday morning run.
Speaker 1: I know we're running this morning as well. We're actually
Speaker 1: prepping for a ten k. We have never run a
Speaker 1: ten k together, and so we're doing that next weekend.
Speaker 1: So this is also fun to listen to while you're
Speaker 1: going on maybe your morning run as you're getting ready
Speaker 1: for the work week. But thank you for spending your
Speaker 1: Sunday with us. We appreciate it. I'm Amy Roboch and
Speaker 1: I'm TJ.
Speaker 2: Holmes. Have a good Sunday, folks. We'll see you for
Speaker 2: the morning run on Monday as well.