To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Do not let your fire go out.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.
As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
Out of the night that covers me, Black is the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.
Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri
They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down.
beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade
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