1 Life 1 Chance

The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.

- Robert Tew

It is not the critic who counts, Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, Or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; Who strives valiantly, Who errs and comes short again and again; Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, And spends himself in a worthy cause; Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; And who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when your laughing and smiling and pure happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly your authentic self.

- Unknown

Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky. He looked at me and continued. The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous. His piercing blue eyes looked into mine. Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life. - Bryce Courtenay