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“Little by little, one travels far.”

 

[ J. R. R. Tolkien ]

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“Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential.

 

One has only so much time in this world,

so devote it to the work and the people most important to you,

to those you love and things that matter.

 

One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn’t really like,

or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.”

 

[ Louis L’Amour – Ride the River ]

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“Making a record is a lot like surgery without an anesthetic.

 

You first have to cut yourself up the middle.

 

Then you have to rip out every single organ, every single part and lay them on a table.

 

You then need to examine the parts, and the reality of the situation hits you.

 

You find yourself saying things like

“I didn’t know that part was so ugly.”

Or

“I better get a professional opinion about that.”

 

You go to bed hollow and then back into the operating room the next day

. . .facing every fear,

every disgusting thing you hate about yourself.

 

Then you pop it all back in, sew yourself shut and perform

. . . you perform like your life depended on it

 

—-and in those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed.

 

You find yourself and you friends all over again,

you find something to fight for,

something to love.

 

Something to show the world.”

 

[ Gerard Way ]

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“He saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful,

that nothing was done quickly, without labor,

that it had to undergo a thousand fondlings,

revisings,

moldings,

addings,

removings,

graftings,

tearings,

correctings,

smoothings,

rebuildings,

reconsiderings,

nailings,

tackings,

chippings,

hammerings,

hoistings,

connectings

— all the poor fumbling uncertain incompletions of human endeavor.

 

They went on forever and were forever incomplete,

far from perfect,

refined,

or smooth,

full of terrible memories of failure and fears of failure,

 

yet,

in the way of things,

somehow noble,

complete,

and shining in the end.”

 

[ Jack Kerouac – The Town and the City ]

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“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

 

 

[ Winston Churchill ]

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“We want not so much a Father but a grandfather in heaven,

a God who said of anything we happened to like doing,

‘What does it matter so long as they are contented?”

[ C. S. Lewis – The Problem of Pain ]

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“Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook?

Makes you wonder,

did you have a bad day,

or did you make it a bad day.”

[ Brandon Mull – Fablehaven – Rise of the Evening Star ]