There is a lobby with a chair, but no one ever sits down there.
There is a room with a bed, but I dare not lay my head.
There is a smoke with a match, but I might get attached.
There is a wall with a door....and past that, there is more..........but I just pace the floor.
~Craven~
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Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ~Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942, translated from French by Lewis Galantière
If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. ~Author Unknown
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead. ~Gelett Burgess
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of. ~Michel de Montaigne
All men should strive to learn before they diewhat they are running from, and to, and why.~James Thurber
Endurance is frequently a form of indecision. ~Elizabeth Bibesco, Haven, 1951
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates. ~Thomas Szasz, "Personal Conduct," The Second Sin, 1973
"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." -Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Be wise in the use of time. The question in life is not how much time do we have? The question is what shall we do with it." -Anna Robertson Brown
"Do all the good you can,By all the means you can,In all the ways you can,In all the places you can,At all the times you can,To all the people you can,As long as ever you can." -John Wesley
"There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.” – John F. Kennedy
The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few can hold it.
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- I am. My life's journey is to accept that that is enough. I could list all the things that I am, but the only important thing you need to know about me is that I am.
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