Far better is it to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure
...than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy nor suffer much,
because they live in a gray twilight
that knows not victory nor defeat.

~Theodore Roosevelt

Today would have been my father's 82nd birthday. I do not know how to describe how much I miss him, nor how thoroughly he will always be a part of me.

Sonnet to My FatherFather, since always now the death to come ( Read more... )

Nothing is ever lost in this adventure of all adventures ( Read more... )

This is from a somewhat long but very good post on living with depression. Warning - may be triggery ( Read more... )

In three words
I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
It goes on.

~Robert Frost

I'm struggling with this one lately, so I'm posting it as something to think upon, a meditation, if you will.
Be happy for this moment.
This moment is your life!

~Omar Khayyam

"What is your will, anyway?
Nobody can see it.
You don't hear it thinking.
You only know what your will is afterward,
when you look back in your life
and see what you've done."

~Orson Scott Card
from Children of the Mind

Every block of stone has a statue inside it
and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.

~Michelangelo

I've been reading some of Joshua & Ryan's essays on Minimalism & two things came to mind ( Read more... )

We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions;
we sow our actions, and we reap our habits;
we sow our habits, and we reap our characters;
we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.

~Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus

Here are two quotes I've been oscillating between for a while now...

Everything will be ok in the end.
If it's not ok, it's not the end.

(multiple attributions)

This is your world.
Shape it or someone else will.

~Gary Lew