“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

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

Forward. That is where opportunity awaits.

“In order to change the world, you must first change yourself.”

“Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.” — J.K. Galbraith

“Your life extends beyond your wildest imagination but at the same time only becomes what you can envision.”

“...many a time I have made a comparison between nobility of sacrifice and happiness of rebellion to find out which one is nobler and more beautiful; but until now I have distilled only one truth out of the whole matter, and this truth is sincerity, which makes all our deeds beautiful and honorable.”
-Khalil Gibran ‘Broken Wings’

I will become what I deserve.