“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
Emily Dickinson
“Dying is a wild night and a new road.“
-Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
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Benjamin Franklin
“He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Big Fish
“There’s a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny’s lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I’ve always been a fool.”
-Edward Bloom, Big Fish (2003)
Big Fish movie poster
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“It’s no use going back to yesterday,
because I was a different person then.”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Success Is…
“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – this is to have succeeded.”
What is Life?
“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.”
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator
fireflies in the night
Lord of the Rings
“All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.”
-Gandalf, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001 movie
scene from the Fellowship of the Ring
Shing Xiong
“In the end, it’s not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away.”
-Shing Xiong
Dictators & Tigers
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“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”
-Winston Churchill, 11 November, 1937 letter
