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Do you have it? Good. Now believe it can come true.
Sep 17, 2025
Going for character: why not now, and where you stand?
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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.
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
You can't run away from yourself
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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.
We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
The best things in life are free - and $19.95.
The best things in life are free
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.
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
There is a tide in the affairs of men
There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish.
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.
Do not let your fire go out.
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 is yours.
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.
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