At first you feel it slowly. And then suddenly, all at once it hits you.

“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.”
-Herman Melville ‘Moby Dick’

'“In the end, it always does.”

“Strength and wisdom cannot be obtained by living in fear.”
- Original Quote

Happy New Year!

“You are too concerned with what was, and what will be. There is a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.”
-Master Oogway “Kung Fu Panda”

I was put here on this earth for a reason.

“A father may have a child who is ugly and lacking in all the graces, and the love he feels for him puts a blindfold over his eyes so that he does not see his defects but considers them signs of charm and intelligence and recounts them to his friends as if they were clever and witty.”
-Miguel de Cervantes ‘Don Quixote’

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
(The Lord of Rings)

“You never fail until you stop trying”
-Albert Einstein

“He who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche

“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
- Charles Bukowski

“Do not worry because you have no official position. Worry about your qualifications. Do not worry because no one appreciates your abilities. Seek to be worthy of appreciation.”
-Confucius

There are those who look, but do not see.
There are those who see, but do not look.
And there are those who seek, find, and understand.

And all at once, it was too much. Too much pain, too much solitude, too much loneliness. Too much emptiness and misunderstanding for any man to bear. So he left, in order to find what he was looking for.

“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Oh geez, William, you aim too high."

"If there's another way to aim, I don't know it."

"A chain, is only as strong as its weakest link."

The Fall
If there is anything to be learned from the fall

It is to not be afraid to shed your leaves.

They will always grow back when the time is right.

Poem by: David Carrion