Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it. He drew a circle that shut me out Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout But love and I had the wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in. Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. Change is inevitable, growth is intentional. Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind. It is difficult to say what is impossible for the dream of yesterday is the reality of tomorrow. There's only one thing that can guarantee our failure, and that's if we quit. To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us. |