Quote of the Day - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
“I am not a graceful person.
I am not a Sunday morning or Friday sunset.
I am a Tuesday 2am,
I am gunshots muffled by a few city blocks,
I am a broken window during February.
My bones crack on a nightly basis.
I fall from elegance with a dull thud,
and I apologize for my awkward sadness.
I sometimes believe that I don’t belong around people,
that I belong to all the leap days that didn’t happen.
The way the light and darkness mix under my skin has become a storm.
You don’t see the lightning,
but you hear the echoes”
“Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.”
“He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.”
“The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, go with it, and join the dance.”
“When you’re overthinking, you get excited to play under the bright lights. When you’re in the Zone, you don’t even notice them.”
“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom…is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
“The ego wants to be loved for false and materialistic things, but the true self can be loved for what it is.”
“You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.”
“Time is our most valuable asset, yet we tend to waste it, kill it, and spend it rather than invest it.”
“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”