“I am an invisible man.”
~ Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
“Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment-not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.”
~ Joseph Campbell
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If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
~ J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Joe: “I went to the doctor’s this morning.”
Pete: “What did he say?”
Joe: “He said, “You’ve got acute appendicitis.”
Pete: “What did you say?”
Joe: “I said, ‘Compared to whom?”
Holding on to yesterday is like trying to capture water in your hands. Trying to toss a rope around tomorrow and control your destiny is like trying to catch the wind. But today, today is the day where you can take yesterday’s lessons and influence tomorrow.
We have two hands, two ears, and two eyes and one heart. When the heart directs the hands, eyes, and ears, love takes hold in that instant.
Life
Sarojini Naidu
CHILDREN, ye have not lived, to you it seems
Life is a lovely stalactite of dreams,
Or carnival of careless joys that leap
About your hearts like billows on the deep
In flames of amber and of amethyst.
Children, ye have not lived, ye but exist
Till some resistless hour shall rise and move
Your hearts to wake and hunger after love,
And thirst with passionate longing for the things
That burn your brows with blood-red sufferings.
Till ye have battled with great grief and fears,
And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years,
Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife,
Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.
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Adventure
Robert W. Service
“Friends and lovers, good-bye,” I said;
Never once did I turn my head,
Though wickedly wild the weather
min were the rover’s rags and scars,
And the rover’s bed beneath the stars,
But never the shadow of prison bars,
As we ranged the world together.
Dreary and darkling was the trail,
But my Knight was clad in a gleaming mail,
And he plucked from his plume a feather.
And oh how foolishly proud was I!
“I’ll wear it,” I told him, “till I die;
Freemen we’ll be of sea and sky,
To the ends of the earth together.”
Yet now I know by my failing breath
I’m ripe for the last adventure, Death,
And I’ve reached the end of my tether:
But my Knight of the shining mail is there,
And his eyes are bright and he bids me dare:
So into the Dark let’s boldly fare,
Into the Dark . . . together.
